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Felipe Barral is a filmmaker and multimedia storyteller who expresses himself in many ways –through his films, videos and audio-visual works, his music, his art, and his writing.  As a filmmaker, director of photography, and multimedia storyteller, Felipe specializes in creative, engaging, and cinematic content for the arts. Felipe is also an Emmy Award-winning producer. He is the Founder and CEO of his own production company, IGNI Productions, specializing in outstanding cinematic content for the arts and the entertainment industry; as well as the Founder and CEO of BELLA, a company that feeds the screens with beautiful cinematic videos produced to reduce stress and improve well-being. Since the end of 2017, Felipe has been a frequent collaborator with The Atlanta Opera, producing groundbreaking content that blends opera and film in many innovative ways. In 2020, the opera expanded this initiative and created The Atlanta Opera Film Studio. Felipe was appointed Director of the Film Studio. In just two years, the studio has released twelve Opera Films, one Feature Short Film, three Documentaries, one Episodic Series, four Concerts, four Community Conversations, three Studio Tour Films for Children, and over 200 short documentary-style marketing videos. In addition to that, he has innovated in many ways, including developing and directing five multi-camera cinematic livestreaming events for the opera company. Felipe's cinematographic style has been defined as "remarkably perceptive filmmaking" by noted opera journalist Fred Plotkin.  His creative partners and clients include the Alliance Theatre, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Atlanta Ballet, the High Museum of Art, the College of the Arts at KSU, Georgia Tech Arts, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Arts ATL, TheatricalOutfit, Actor’s Express, Core Dance, Théâtre du Rêve, Synchronicity Theatre, Horizon Theatre, Eyedrum, Fly on a Wall, ImmerseATL, Serenbe, National Water Dance, Georgia EnsembleTheatre, Carlota Estates, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Deljou Art Group, and many others.  As an independent filmmaker and artist, he has released short films, short and long-format documentaries, and three books of poetry, and has composed original scores for silent films and documentaries. He is also the creator and co-producer of the show “Collective Knowledge”, co-produced and hosted by Gail O’Neill.  Felipe’s career as a journalist and his passion for philosophy informs his work (he has a Master's degree in Philosophy). For 20 years, he produced outstanding high-quality content at CNN. Felipe has taught his “Creative Cinematic Production Philosophy & Style” to producers, reporters, and colleagues at CNN, and he also taught it to children at the Atlanta International School, which led him to be recognized with Time Warner’s Richard D. Parsons Community Impact Award in 2014.