Lorena Escala Vignolo graduated with a BA in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Lima and holds a Master's Degree in Film Preservation from Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastián, Spain. She has been working on an investigation on small gauge film in Peru, and participated in This Film is Dangerous, a project about the restoration of a nitrate print. She has been a research assistant and intern at the film magazine Ventana Indiscreta and a programmer at Armando Robles Godoy, the alternative movie theater managed by the Ministry of Culture in Perú. She has worked as part of a technical group reviewing applications of film projects at the Government’s Audiovisual Funding Contests. She manages the project www.cineamateurperuano.org