Miradas Desde el Origen de la Madre Tierra - Cine Para la Resistencia

Rocío Gómez Semanate

Passionate about the art and culture of the Kitu Kara people, Rocio holds a position as Coordinator and General Producer of the "WarmiCine" project, a creative laboratory for women, as well as MuyuyCine, an audiovisual seedbed carried out in various Ecuadorian locations. Both training and audiovisual production processes seek to weave, complement and highlight the presence of Indigenous Peoples.

Rocio has been the recipient of several accolades as cultural manager for the promotion of cinema and audiovisuals at the national level, as well as recipient of municipal participatory funds with interdisciplinary projects. She has also been the recipient of national recognitions such as the Mushuk Nina award for the contribution to the peoples and nationalities with audiovisual art and the Municipal Recognition of Quito for the contribution to the development of culture.

Among her audiovisual productions, "Somos pueblo," "Trenzando vida," "Manuela 1945," "Kitu Kara," and "La Yumba" stand out. Rocio's works are the result of a process of formation and identity reflection surrounding the presence of the Kitu Kara people and their practices as urban indigenous people in the capital of Ecuador. She has worked as field producer and presenter of the television series “Ecuador Ancestral” and the feature film from Esmeralda “Semillas de Lucha.” Co-director of several indigenous film festivals and exhibitions such as the recent FIC CLACPI Ecuador 2022. Social Communicator, Visual Anthropologist and cultural manager, scriptwriter, filmmaker, audiovisual producer and popular trainer, ancestral dancer and cultural activist.

Mariano Estrada

Tseltal, Mexico; President of CLACPI-Mexico

Mariano Estrada is an audiovisual producer and Tzeltal communicator originally from the San Manuel community, municipality of Palenque, Chiapas. Interested in the struggles of his community, at the age of 15, he joined the Committee for the Defense of Indigenous Freedom-Xi'nich, which allowed him to attend an audiovisual training workshop organized by the then National Indigenous Institute, in 1992. In 1993 he founded the Communication sector of ​​the Xi'nich organization. With great responsibility for his community, he has carried out his work for more than twenty-five years, both inside and outside the organization. From 1993 to 2014 he made more than fifty productions, including short and medium-length documentaries and informative capsules.

Mariano is currently a founding member of "Tseltal Bachajón Comunicación", an organization that is part of the Latin American Coordinator of Cinema and Communication of Indigenous Peoples (CLACPI), where he served as general coordinator from 2015 - 2022.

David Hernández Palmar

Wayuu/lipuana Clan, Venezuela; Political Advisor CLACPI

@davidhpalmar

David is a filmmaker, independent curator and film programmer with recognized experience in the Latin American region. He is also a photographer, journalist, researcher and producer of several audiovisual works that have portrayed the Wayuu world. He has co-directed films such as: “Owners of The Water”, “Wounmainkat“. With the short film “The Foreign Body“, World Premiere in competition at the Toronto International Film Festival TIFF and Winner of the First Prize at FICMAYAB (13th International Festival of Film and Communication of Indigenous Peoples), he began his career as a Film Producer. He is currently producer of “A son”, a first feature film project in development by Venezuelan filmmaker Héctor Silva Núñez; producer of “The Dusk of the Amazon” a documentary feature in production by Alvaro Sarmiento and Diego Sarmiento | Quechua, Perú); producer of “Suggunya 1698. The key to Darién”, a documentary feature film project in development by Olowaili Green | Guna Dule, Colombia and David Sierra; co-director with Marbel Vanegas | Wayuu Jusayu, Colombia, of “Searching for the marks of the Asho´ojushi”, a documentary feature film project in development.

Other positions David holds: Curator of Latin American and Caribbean Film specializing in Indigenous Film / Member of the Wayuu People Communications Network / Director of the Indigenous Audiovisual Foundation Wayaakua / Curator and Programmer of the Wayuu Film and Video Showcase / Curator and Programmer of the International Indigenous Film Showcase of Venezuela MICIV / Former Advisor for special selection NATIVe of the Berlinale International Film Festival / / Former Political Advisor for CLACPI / Member of The Indigenous media2023 and Communication Caucus / Member of the Programmers of Color Collective POC.

Gustavo Ulcué

Gustavo Ulcué is Nasa from the Canoas Indigenous Reservation in Santander de Quilichao, Cauca, Colombia, with vast experience in communication, research, participation and action processes of and for Indigenous communities as well as other social sectors. He has contributed to the development of mechanisms for collective meetings and exchanges on the governance processes of ethnic peoples, such as assemblies, workshops, mingas, community work, and rituals, among others. He was a co-founder of the Communication Network of the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, coordinated the communication program of the Association of Indigenous Councils of Chocó, and advised Indigenous communication programs in the Córdoba and Nariño departments. From 2013 to 2019 he was the director of the Daupará Indigenous Film and Video Festival, and a jury member of the 2013 CLACPI International Indigenous Film and Video Festival. He was part of the team that built the Policy Public Communication of Indigenous Peoples and the National Unified Indigenous Television Plan of Indigenous Peoples, formalized in 2017. He directs audiovisual productions for television, including Luna de Verano (2022) and Flute and Drum, for the series Territorios y Voces Indígenas (CONCIP - Canal Trece, season 01 of 2021 and season 2 of 2022); Guerrera Ancestral (financed by the Truth Commission for FICCI Interruptus 2021); Kwesx Dxi'j (Señal Colombia, 2019); the series Somos Originarios (Capital Channel, 2018); Ya'ja (Señal Colombia, 2018); Yu' Luuçx (Señal Colombia, 2016), in addition to another 20 productions with organizations and peoples at the national level.

Nelly Kuiru

Traditional Name: Moniyango (Tree of Abundance)

Murui from the Maconian Amazon in Colombia; Coordinadora, CLACPI

Nelly belongs to the Murui-M+n+ka (Uitoto) indigenous people of La Chorrera (department of Amazonas, Colombia). In 2019, she graduated as an indigenous communicator with an emphasis in audiovisual and radio media2023 at the School of Indigenous Communication of the Macro-Amazon "Ka+ Jana Uai" (The Voice of our Image). In 2020, she completed higher studies in Film Direction and Audiovisual media2023 (Elíseo Subiela National School of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts. Buenos Aires, Argentina). From 2012 to 2021, she was the National Commissioner for Communication of the Indigenous Peoples of the Macro-Amazon of the ONIC (National Indigenous Organization of Colombia). She is co-founder of the National Communication Commission of the Indigenous Peoples of Colombia (CONCIP), co-founder of Ciber Amazonas (Network of Women Communicators of the Amazon Basin) and co-founder of the Pan-Amazonian Network of Indigenous Women Communicators. She is also the founder and coordinator of the first Indigenous Communication School of the Colombian Amazon ("Ka+ Jana Uai" / La Voz de Nuestra Imagen-). Founder of the first association of indigenous women in the department of Amazonas (Nimaira-Amazonas). Responsible for the negotiations with the Government of the Republic of Colombia, together with other representatives of the Indigenous Organizations, for the creation of the Public Communication Policy of and for the Indigenous Peoples of Colombia and the National Television Plan.

Since 2022 she has been a tutor in training processes in audiovisual media2023tion and audience creation (Proimagenes & Mincultura). She is also an advisor to the Department of Research, Information and Communication Systems of the ONIC (National Indigenous Organization of Colombia). Recently, she has been appointed as General Coordinator of the Latin American Coordinator of Cinema and Communication of Indigenous Peoples (CLACPI).

Nelly is director of the short film entitled "RA" (Plant of wisdom to balance the world) that was part of the television series "El Buen Vivir" for Canal Tr3ce. This work was screened at the FICCI (Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival) and nominated for the India Catalina Awards of the Colombian Audiovisual Industry in 2020. In that same year she was the director of the short film entitled "Mujeres Umari. Weavers of stories and knowledge” for the television series “El Buen Vivir” on Canal Tr3ce. Director, in 2021, of the short film entitled "KIYEDECAGO" (Woman with the sweet pineapple) for the Tr3ce channel. In that same year she was the director of the short film entitled «Yarokamena. La resistencia” which was screened at the FICCI (Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival) / FICCI Interruptus. Director, in 2022, of chapter 3 / short film entitled "Ka+ Jairag+ma Iga+" (Ancestral ties) for the television series "El Buen Vivir" on Canal Tr3ce. Over the last 20 years, she has worked for multiple important production companies, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Discovery Channel, BBC London, as well as for various national channels and production companies in Colombia (Señal Colombia, Canal Tr3ce, Atarraya films, Negrita films, Endémica studios, Caracol TV…). She has been a field producer for different international events, among which includes the BAM (Bogotá Audiovisual Market) Amazonas.

Amalia Córdova

Amalia Córdova is Supervisory Museum Curator and Chair of Research and Education at the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. She co-directs the Mother Tongue Film Festival, a project of the Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices initiative. She was a Latin American specialist for the Film + Video Center of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, served as assistant director for New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and taught at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She holds an M.A. in performance studies and a PhD in cinema studies from NYU. She is from Santiago, Chile/Wallmapu.

Susan Lord

Susan Lord holds a PhD from York University. She is Professor in the Department of Film and media2023 at Queen's University and is the Director of the Vulnerable media2023 Lab. Her research interests have landed in the areas of cinema and media2023 arts, archives, gendered spaces and the city, and Cuban cinema and visual culture. She has undertaken curatorial projects of media2023 arts and worked with artists’ groups and artist-run centres for over 30 years. The Vulnerable media2023 Lab is an infrastructure and research environment, dedicated to the social ecology of media2023 arts collectives and collections, and to the preservation, migration and remedia2023tion of media2023 arts archives by women, Indigenous peoples, LBGTQ2 and regional producers. She co-investigator of Archive/CounterArchive (counterarchive.ca) and PI for the project “Under the Shadow of Empire: Minor Archives and Radical Distribution Networks”. With Maria Caridad Cumana, Susan is co-editor of The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution, a collection of essays, interviews and documents about the Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez (Indiana University Press, 2021). Other books include one on the visual culture of gender and violence-- Killing Women: Gender, Violence and Representation (with Annette Burfoot) Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006. She also published Fluid Screens: Expanded Cinema and Digital Cultures (with Janine Marchessault) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007; Paperback edition 2008) and New World Coming: The 1960s and the Shaping of Global Consciousness (with Dubinsky et al) BTL 2009. As a member of the 30+ year Public Access Collective which publishes the journal PUBLIC: art, culture, ideas. Susan has edited two recent issues – Archive/Counter Archives and HAVANA.

Gabriel Menotti

Gabriel Menotti is Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Ontario. He works as an independent curator in the field of media2023 practices and has written extensively on various themes related to image and technology. His most recent books are Practices of Projection: Histories and Technologies (OUP, 2020, co-edited with Virginia Crisp) and >Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology (AUP, 2019). Menotti is also one of the coordinators of the Besides the Screen festival and research network.

Juana Suárez

Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University (NYU MIAP). She is a Latin American Cinema scholar and a media2023 preservation specialist. Author of Cinembargo Colombia: Critical Essays on Colombian Cinema (Spanish 2009, English translation 2012), and Sites of Contention: Cultural Production and the Discourse of Violence in Colombia; co-editor of Humor in Latin American Cinema (2015); translator to Spanish of A Comparative History of Latin American Cinema by Paul A. Schroeder-Rodríguez (2020). She is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Moving Images Archives, Cultural History and The Digital Turn in Latin America. Since 2013 she has been involved in NYU MIAP Audiovisual Preservation Exchange, a project that has worked with archival and preservation projects in Latin America, including work with Chiapas (Mexico) and Olinda (Brazil) communities. From 2015 to 2023, she was involved in the preservation of the Colombian television series Yuruparí.

Zaira Zarza

Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at Université de Montréal. She obtained her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University and holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Havana. She was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta and a Cinema and media2023 Arts Sessional Assistant Professor at York University. As a programmer, she has worked at the Toronto (TIFF) and Cartagena (FICCI) international film festivals. She also directed the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Film Festival, Boston, 2019. Zarza founded Roots and Routes (2015-present), a project that promotes film and media2023 works by Cubans in the diaspora and published the book Caminos del cine brasileño contemporáneo (Ediciones ICAIC 2010). Her current SSHRC-funded project focuses on Latin American documentary activism. Other research includes Latinx-Canadian cinemas and the economies of Caribbean film.

Tamara de Szegheo Lang

Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and media2023 at Queen’s University. Her research takes up queer history, community-based archives, film, and the affective relationships between queer people and the past. Her SSHRC-funded project, Bodies on Fire: Rekindling the Lesbian Decade in Canadian Film, 1990-1999, is an archival investigation into the networks and collaborations that enabled a wave of lesbian films that were released in the decade. As former project manager of the Vulnerable media2023 Lab, she has been involved in a project with Arnait Productions, an Inuit women’s video collective, to digitize their work. With Nakasuk Alariaq and Linda Grussani, she curated an exhibition on Arnait at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, entitled Inuuqatikka: my dear relations.