PANEL
Latin Women in Cinema
Production, Politics, Poetics
Friday, November 6th - 7:30 pm EST
Live event hosted on ZOOM
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Since the birth of cinema, women directors have made stunning contributions across all genres. Yet most cinema histories tell a male-dominated story.
It’s our objective to increase the participation, skills, and opportunities for women eager to enter the film sector, and this panel will address the importance of including female characters and working with female cinematographers and directors.
According to data gathered by the Share Her Journey campaign, female storytellers are in the minority across many key creative and decision-making roles. We at aluCine 2020 would like to challenge this, and offer more opportunities for women (specifically women of colour) to participate in the decision-making and creative process of the film industry.
Panelists:
Franci Duran
Lina Rodriguez
Alexandra Gelis
Moderator:
Vivian Gottheim
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Lina Rodriguez is a Colombian Canadian filmmaker. She has written, directed, and co-produced six short films and two features, which have been showcased in festivals and cultural venues including TIFF, Locarno, the Vancouver International Film Festival, NYFF, the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the Harvard Film Archive, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, Film at Lincoln Center, Sala Leopoldo Lugones, and Tabakalera Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea.
Alexandra Gelis is a Colombian-Venezuelan media artist based in Toronto with a background in visual arts. She is a PhD candidate in Environmental Studies at York University, she also holds an MFA degree from the same university, Toronto, Canada. Her work predominantly involves photography, video, electronic and digital processes. Gelis’ work addresses the use of image in relation to displacement, landscape and politics beyond borders or culturally specific subjects. In her latest works she has expanded her practice using electronics and programming for interactivity.
Francisca Duran is a Chilean-Canadian experimental media artist who creates films, video installation, and 2D, photo-based, mixed-media works about history, memory and violence. Duran has exhibited internationally at film festivals and venues including Edinburgh International Film Festival, International Film Festival at Rotterdam, HotDocs, Arkipel, Anthology Film Archives, Los Angeles Film Forum, John Hansard Gallery and Gallery 44. Duran holds an M.F.A. from York University and a B.A.H. from Queen’s University. Her practice has been supported by research, travel, and production grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.
(Image by Justine McCloskey)
Vivian Gottheim (São Paulo) lives in Montreal. Her practice in painting, drawing, and photography, and more recently in video, questions the codes and symbols of our civilization as metaphors of the power and fragility of life. Her works are part of public collections, such as the Prêt d’oeuvres d’art of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the National Bank of Canada, Loto-Québec and the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, as well as of several private collections. Vivian Gottheim holds a Doctor of Arts in Visual Arts from New York University and is a grant recipient of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.