Roy and Arturo Ambriz are a Mexican duo of brother filmmakers and the founders of Cinema Fantasma, an independent stop motion animation studio based in Mexico.
Their combined education comes from studying Digital Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy (USA), Film and Television at Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión (Mexico), and Creative Writing at the University of Salamanca (Spain). Together they wrote the award winning stop motion series Frankelda’s Book of Spooks (HBO Max, 2021). Their debut feature film I Am Frankelda premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2025, they are currently in pre production on their next feature Ballad of the Phoenix.
Their studio practice spans films, television series, commercial animation, special effects, visual experimentation, and art objects, with producing credits including Women Wearing Shoulder Pads for Adult Swim.
