Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake

Irene Iborra Rizo

Irene Iborra Rizo was born in Alicante in 1976. She is a screenwriter, director and animator specializing in stop motion. She also co-directs the Barcelona-based studio Citoplasmas Stop Motion, which produces short films, series, commercials and music videos.
She has co-directed several short films, including What’s up with the sky?. The films she creates or participates in raise issues such as education, food sovereignty and ecology.
She also teaches writing as part of a master’s degree in animation at Barcelona’s College of Art and Design (BAU). Irene is also co-author, with Maite Carranza, of Los 7 cavernícolas, a series of children’s books whose main characters are children living in prehistoric times.