Adriana Varela – Producer

Adriana Varela is an accomplished audiovisual producer with more than two decades of experience leading film, television, and multimedia projects that unite cultural heritage with narrative innovation. Since 2003, she has contributed to emblematic Venezuelan productions such as Un Mural para Cada Pueblo (2003), Pueblos y Tradiciones (2005–2009) — winner of the 2008 National Culture Award — and Independencia Tecnológica (2009–2014), a four-season documentary series nominated at the CineCien Mercosur Scientific Film Festival in Buenos Aires in 2010. As a Co-Founder of Astrolabio Producciones, she developed educational and scientific content for Venezuelan public television, produced Followers of the Sun (2012), presented at DocMontevideo 2013, and collaborated on recognized works such as Mujeres del Sur (2012–2013) and El Hombre de la Luz (2013).

Between 2015 and 2019, she expanded her professional scope internationally through collaborations with Paula Narh and the Switch Foundation and Fundación Tienda di Educación in Aruba, and produced several 2D and 3D animation projects for advertising campaigns. From 2020 to 2022, she produced The Blue Llama Secret Message, an award-winning mockumentary praised for its creative blend of humor and science fiction. In 2025, Adriana makes her debut as writer and director with Deep Mirror, her first narrative short film a poetic exploration of inner transformation that marks the beginning of a new artistic chapter in her cinematic journey.