Please join us for a night of screenings and discussions along Ana María García, Frances Negrón Muntaner, and Associate Professor Elizabeth Ramírez Soto to learn more about documentary film as a decolonial practice in Latin America. Ana María García is the award-winning director of La operación (1981) and The Tax Paradise: Puerto Rican Voices (2023), two documentaries that trace the effects of colonialism in Puerto Rico. Following the screenings of La operación (40 min.) and The Tax Paradise: Puerto Rican Voices (28 min.), García, Negrón Muntaner, and Ramírez Soto will participate on a panel moderated by Pat Santalices Torres (LAIC).
About the Speakers
Ana María García is a Cuban-Puerto Rican filmmaker whose documentary work is influenced by New Latin American Film. She is best known for her documentary La operación (1982) which looks at the US-imposed forced sterilization policies on Puerto Rican women, as well as Cocolos y Rockeros (1992), a study on rock and salsa subcultures in Puerto Rico. Her latest work, The Tax Paradise: Puerto Rican Voices (2023), offers an ethnographic review of community-based resistances to gentrification in Puerto Rico.
Frances Negrón Muntaner is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and scholar. She is the author of Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (winner, 2004 CHOICE Award), and the editor of several books, including Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Nationalism and Colonialism (1997); None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era (2007), and Sovereign Acts (2017). Among Negrón Muntaner's films are AIDS in the Barrio (1990), Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican (1994), and War for Guam (2021).
Elizabeth Ramírez Soto is a film and media historian whose areas of research include transnational cinema and television, feminist film histories, and documentary. She is the author of (Un)veiling Bodies: A Trajectory of Chilean Post-Dictatorship Documentary (Legenda, 2019) and coeditor of Nomadías: El cine de Marilú Mallet, Valeria Sarmiento y Angelina Vázquez (Metales Pesados, 2016). Her work has appeared in journals such as Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Feminist Media Histories and [in]Transition, as well as in numerous edited collections in the United States, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba.
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