Cultural agitator, audiovisual creator and pyromaniac of minds, María Cañas practices artistic experimentation, appropriationism and videoguerrilla. She gets into the topics and prejudices to dynamite them and acts from laughter: the humor of all the colors of the connected multitudes, as a strategy of insurgency or, if not, at least, of resistance. An activist committed to the archive and audiovisual detritus as tools for cultural development, and with the need to educate in the agitation and recycling of our imaginaries, in order to transform us into freer, more critical and creative beings.

D. in Aesthetics and History of Philosophy at the University of Seville and a master's degree in Digital Postproduction C.E.A. She directs Animalario TV Producciones www.animalario.tv, a creative space dedicated to artistic experimentation and mediation, in pursuit of the cultivation of the inner fire. 

Cañas has received numerous awards, including: Underground Spirit Award at the Pálic European Film Festival in Serbia - 19th Seville Festival: Rosario Valpuesta Award for technical-artistic contribution, from the Andalusian Panorama Short Films section for Menudo viaje. El sueño torcido del arte contemporáneo - Cámara Oscura Award at the IX Festival de Cine Andaluz de Casares - Panòptic Jury Award for En el futuro…Predicciones para un presente extremo, Mataró - ALMA Screenplay Award to La cosa vuestra, Alcine, Madrid - Festhome Distribution Award, Alcances, Cádiz - 2 Special Mentions at FIVA, Buenos Aires - Best Film Award to EXPO LIO'92, Festival Márgenes, Madrid - X Films Award to La cosa vuestra Festival Punto de Vista, Pamplona - Alcances Canal Sur RTVA Award and Jury's Special Mention to La mano que trina - El Público Canal Sur Visual Arts Award - Universo Video LABoral Award, Hamaca, Gijón Film Festival - Julio Diamante Award, Asecan, Alcances to Sé villana - Picknic Festival Award, Demolden, Santander - El Público Canal Sur Award for Plastic Arts - Universo Video LABoral Award, Hamaca, Gijón Film Festival. Demolden, Santander - Márgenes Festival Award to Sé villana - Iniciarte Artistic Activity Award, Consejería de Cultura, Junta de Andalucía - Prix Ibn Batuta. FIAV, Nimes - Román Gubern Essay Film Award to La cosa nuestra, UAB, CaixaForum, Barcelona - Barcelona VisualSound - RTVA-Zemos98-Caja San Fernando Award - Jury Prize in Intervenciones TV6, Fundación Rodríguez, C.C.Montehermoso, Vitoria - Imagen Prize, Transmediale 03, Berlin - Driver Prize, Certamen Audiovisual Injuve, Madrid - Canal retina: Festival Alacant/Vídeo Prize, Alicante - Videoart Prize in Eurovídeo, Unicaja, Málaga - Certamen de jóvenes creadores, Premio videocreación. Madrid City Council - Injuve Art Exhibition Award. Círculo de B.B.A.A. Madrid. AC/E, Iberoamerican tour - Injuve Audiovisual Contest. Accésit, Madrid - Prize. Muestra Andaluza de Arte Joven. I.A.J., Malaga.

She has participated in many exhibitions and festivals in art centers, museums and national and international galleries, such as the C.A.A.C, Sevilla; C.A.C. Málaga; Gallery Thimar/Westling, Sweden; Centre D'Art Contemporain Genéve, Switzerland; Isabel Hurley Gallery, Málaga; Llucià Homs Gallery, Barcelona; ICAS, Seville; Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina; Márgenes, Cineteca Matadero, Madrid; Festival Cinespaña, Toulouse; Alcances, Cádiz; Jornadas de Reapropiación, Mexico; The last Laugh, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York; Filmoteca Española, Madrid; Filmoteca de Cataluña; Filmoteca de Andalucía; Instituto Cervantes among others.