Remapping Latin American Cinema

A reconsideration of contemporary Latin American cinema that seeks new ways to understand the diverse range of filmmaking practices that have emerged transnationally across the region. This initiative maps vital creative currents connecting filmmakers throughout Latin America while also exploring the fertile dialogue taking place more broadly between documentary and fiction filmmaking, as well as between cinema, literature and the visual arts. While focused on the contemporary moment, this initiative also looks to the historic past by seeking to understand the deep and continued influence of key films, directors and movements, especially from the post-1968 period. 

This initiative is organized in collaboration with the Harvard Film Archive and led by its Director Haden Guest. Inspired by an eponymous course co-taught in Fall 2020 by Guest and Chilean filmmaker and AFVS Visiting Professor Dominga Sotomayor, Remapping Latin American Cinema launched with virtual events in Fall 2020; two film screenings and conversations featuring participants of the course, including students and visiting filmmakers.  A regional launch of this initiative followed in 2022 in Santiago, Chile in collaboration with the Cineteca Nacional and Centro de Cine y Creación (CCC) 

A feature of Remapping Latin American Cinema will be the regular participation by Latin American artists and scholars and collaboration with cinematheques and universities across the region.