In the early nineties, right after finishing my Fine Arts degree, Carolina López Caballero (Villafranca de los Caballeros, Toledo, 1966) went to England to study animation. There he discovered the depth and richness of international animated cinema and directed a short film, Swan song, which was screened at the London Film Festival alongside the legendary Comfort creatures by Nick Park, co-founder of Aardman. Upon returning to Barcelona, ​​seeing the disparity between the English and Catalan animation scenes, she took advantage of a screening of her short film at the Generalitat's film department to hand over a thick dossier to the officials with a project to create an animation festival in Catalonia. "Back then, there were animation festivals in England, Channel Four, BBC2... But it was a desert, and I, besides being a creator, have always had a desire to share," explains López Caballero.