Projects
Five in the Seventies
El grupo de los cinco en los setenta
by Lautaro Garcia Candela
Argentina
This project intends to reconstruct a certain cinematographic environment of Buenos Aires in the 1970s based on the films produced and first-hand sources such as advertisements, unfinished scripts and various oral testimonies.
Records of Resistance: Concurrences in Central America’s Non-Fiction Anti-Imperialist Cinema
by Alonso Aguilar
Costa Rica
The project seeks to clarify aesthetic and formal links between the expressions of non-fiction anti-imperialist cinema in Central America during the 1970s and 1980s, a film corpus rarely integrated into the official history of the region.
A Super-8 Camera in Black Brazilian Hands: The Home Movie of Odilon Lopez
by Lorenna Rocha
Brazil
Unprecedented study of a super 8mm feature-length film directed by Odilon Lopez. Found by the researcher in 2023 in VHS format, the movie is a letter addressed to his daughter, Vanessa Lopez, more than 20 years after the director’s death.
Tutor
Salvador Amores
Programmer at FICUNAM, the Digital Culture Centre and the Frida Kahlo Museum. Curated programmes for the Latin America French Institute, the Mexico National Cinematheque and the Mexican pavilion during the Venice Biennale 2023. Co-editor of the printed film magazine El Cine Probablemente. Co-founder of the film cooperative Ríos de Nueva. Screenwriter and editor of the feature-length films Ruins, Your Realm (2016) and All of the Light (2020).