National Gathering of Latin Canadian Filmmakers: A Memoir is memory document of the first National Gathering of Latin Canadian Filmmakers, held 13-15 May 2023 in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyaang / Montréal. This event was organized by Cecilia Araneda, with the support of GIV: Groupe Intervention Vidéo and IMAA: Independent Media Arts Alliance, and brought together over 40 Latin Canadian filmmakers, programmers, curators and scholars from across the country to get to know each other, to discuss Latin Canadian cinema history and to start the process of defining pathways forward as a community.
This book features reflections on the event with essays by Cecilia Araneda (Winnipeg), soJin Chun (Toronto), felippe (Quebec City), Darien S. Nicolás (Montreal), Milena Salazar (Vancouver) and Zaira Zarza (Montreal), and includes French translations. This publication has been developed as a community resource to spark ideas about what Latin Canadian cinema is today and what it can be in the future.
Featuring the following essays:
- An Introduction and Pathways Forward – by Cecilia Araneda
- Experimental Workflows – by felippe
- Mapping Brazil, Mapping Latin America, Where do we start? – by soJin Chun
- Women filmmakers of the Latin American diaspora in Canada – by Zaira Zarza
- Crossing Borders – by Milena Salazar
- Navigating Identities, Borders, and the Future – by Darien S. Nicolás
The publication also includes the curatorial essay Cinemas of Resistance: Mapping Latinx-Canadian by Zaira Zarza.
For sale soon on the Winnipeg Film Group’s online store!
National Gathering of Latin Canadian Filmmakers: A Memoir
Featuring essays by Cecilia Araneda, soJin Chun, felippe, Darien S. Nicolás, Milena Salazar and Zaira Zarza / edited by Cecilia Araneda. – 1st ed.
ISBN: 978-1-0690421-0-1
87 pages / $20
- Editor: Cecilia Araneda
- Design & Layout: Naoli Bray
- Printer: Premier.ca
Thank-you: Petunia Alves, Franci Duran, Yuko Fedrau, Jacquelyn Hébert, Emmanuel Madan, Carole O’Brien, Marilyne Parent, Barbora Racevičiūtė, Esperanza Sánchez Espita, and Zaira Zarza; the staff of GIV: Groupe Intervention Vidéo and IMAA: Independent Media Arts Alliance; everyone else who offered help and support along the way; and to the Latin Canadian filmmaking community for embarking on this collective journey.
National Gathering of Latin Canadian Filmmakers: A Memoir
© Cecilia Araneda, 2024
Individual essays © of the individual authors
Stills and photographs © the individual photographers
This project was made possible with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, in partnership with GIV: Groupe Intervention Vidéo, and supported by IMAA: Independent Media Arts Alliance, OBORO and Ada X.