Panel Discussion
Honouring Latinx Visionaries in Canada
Friday, June 17th
DOORS OPEN: 4:30 PM ET
EVENT STARTS: 5:00 PM ET
The St. Lawrence Market Kitchen ♿
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aluCinArte honours remarkable Latinx visionaries who have made significant contributions to the Canadian cultural sector. Their dedication has opened doors for diverse artists and forever changed the Canadian art landscape. This panel includes remarkable individuals whose lifetime of work, passion and determination has significantly contributed to increasing diversity in Canada’s media art industry. How did they do it? What challenges did they encounter? Tips and strategies of independent art making.
Arrive early for an opportunity to mingle and enjoy your ceviche with other festival attendees at our aluCinArte Cocktail and Ceviche Hour (3:00 to 4:30 PM).
FEATURED GUESTS:
Jorge Lozano Lorza
Jorge Lozano Lorza is an immigrant artist and filmmaker born in Colombia. He has been painting and filming and making videos, sound, performance, and installation works since he came to Canada in 1971. He has made over 150 movies—works that live not in-between, but within cultures. His work is a reflection of his personal commitment to epistemological disobedience and the investigation of different ways of thinking, feeling, and doing.
Jorge’s fiction shorts have been screened at TIFF and Sundance, and internationally at many festivals, museums, and galleries. He initiated the Crossing Borders Film Festival, the aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto, and converSalon in collaboration with Alexandra Gelis. In 2020, Lozano was the recipient of the Governor General’s Visual and Media Arts Artistic Achievement Award.
Edgardo Moreno
Edgardo Moreno is a Hamilton based composer that has been commissioned for projects in Canada, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Sweden, Argentina, England and USA. He has written scores for films produced by CBC, Bravo, City TV, NFB, OMNI, Ontario Arts Council, History Channel, TVO. He has worked extensively with contemporary dance choreographers creating sound design and musical scores. He is presently working in creating video and live sound pieces that are part of his Firefly Project. His film Double Exposure has screened in various film festivals across Canada and will be part of exhibitions in Ontario in the coming months.
Ricardo Acosta
Ricardo Acosta is a film editor, script consultant and member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the Canadian Cinema Editors (CCE). Acosta has worked in the film industry for over 25 years. An Emmy winner and nominee for Canadian Industry Genie and Gemini Awards, Canadian Film Editors Association Awards and Canadian Screen Awards, Acosta moved to Canada in 1993 from his native Cuba, where he studied film and worked at the world-renowned Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC). He has been a member (student and professor) of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Editing and Screenwriting Lab, and the Music Composition and Sound Design Lab. Among others, he has edited and/or story edited the following films: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela (Anabel Rios 2020), The letter (Maia Lekow, Christopher King, Chris King 2019), The silence of others (Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar 2018), the Cannes and Sundance selection Sembene! (Jason Silverman and Samba Gadjigo 2015), Marmato (Mark Grieco 2014), and Herman’s House (Angad Singh Bhalla 2012).
Claudia Morgado
Claudia Morgado E. is an award-winning filmmaker whose short films have received awards worldwide. Originally from Santiago Chile, she resides in Vancouver Canada where she works in the American/Canadian film and television industry. She hold a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal where she graduated with an award for “Outstanding Achievement in the Film Program”. She is an Alumni from the Canadian Film Center Director’s Lab and holds an MA from the University of British Columbia.
Her films centre around the female body, identity and sexuality.
Marcos Arriaga
Born in Lima, Peru, Marcos graduated from the Communication’s program at San Martin de Porras University in 1985. In Peru he worked as a journalist and photographer for the daily magazine “MARKA, and the weekly magazine “AMAUTA”.
Arriaga immigrated to Canada in 1987. He graduated from Sheridan College’s Media Arts Film Program in 1995 followed by a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film Production at York University in 2003. Arriaga has directed over a dozen short documentaries and experimental films, including: Watching (1994); Mars (1995); El Barrio (1998); The Harris Project (1998); Promised Land (2002); A Little Square Heaven (2003); 3X16 (2007); Tale of Winter (2008); Assembly (2012); My Gentrification (2020); Jatun LLaxta, Noh Kaah...(2020) and two medium length documentaries, Maricones (2005) and Looking for Carmen (2012), which have been show widely in Canada and Internationally. At the present time, Marcos is developing a feature hybrid fiction film called Lonely Man.
As a Director of Photography, Arriaga has work on several award-wining independent productions including: Honey Moccasin (1998); Deep Inside Clint Star (1999), which won a Gemeni award for Best Social and Political Documentary (2000); the feature drama Johnny Grey Eyes (2001), which won awards at Toronto’s Inside Out Film Festival and the Outfest Film Festival in los Angeles; Zero: The Inside Story (2004); Goldyrock (2003); and several shorts.
Marcos has been working as a Film Technician in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University for the past eighteen years and lives in Toronto, Canada.
Lina Rodriguez
Lina Rodriguez is a Colombian Canadian filmmaker. She has written, directed, and produced six short films (Convergences et rencontres, Pont du Carrousel, Einschnitte, Protocol, ante mis ojos, Aquí y allá) and three features (Señoritas, Mañana a esta hora, Mis dos voces), which have been showcased in festivals and cultural venues including the Berlinale, TIFF, Hot Docs, Locarno, NYFF, the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the Harvard Film Archive, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, Film at Lincoln Center and Tabakalera Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea. She has had retrospectives of her work screened at Sala Leopoldo Lugones in Buenos Aires, Cineteca Madrid and Cinemateca de Bogotá.
