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WELCOME TO THE 15TH

aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival!April 02-16, 2015

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aluCine: [conj. transverb] to hallucinate1. m. fam. wonder, marvel, fantasy2. loc. adj. brilliant, mind-blowing3. (alucinado) m. fam. eccentric, visionary, imaginative

Cine:1. (local) cinema2. (art) cinema

6 About aluCine7 Board of Directors & Staff8 aluCine Staff Says Thanks10 Schedule and Ticketing12 Festival Greetings17 Acknowledgements18 Sponsors20 Awards and Jury

23 Films24 Opening Gala

26 Cuban Diasporic Fillmmakers in Canada

28 Fantasmas Cromaticos - The Films of Claudio Caldini

29 Borderline

31 Noche Macabra

33 Shorts for Shorties

33 The Great Small Cinemas of Cuban Female Filmmakers

37 Where is Home? Identity, Intimacy and Belonging in the work of Heidi Hassan

39 Out N’ Loud”: Alucine’s Film Work-shops

40 Bittersweet

42 Families, Change and Reflection

44 The Hand that Feeds

46 Crossing Lines

49 On Identity, Politics & Human Rights

52 Identity, Latin Canadian Contemporary

55 Off-Screen56 Exhibitions

62 Industry Series Panels66 Artist & Curators Talk

68 Special Events

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about alucine

aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival 1161 St. Clair Ave. West. Suite 22Toronto, Ontario, M6E 1B2+1 (416) 548-8914info@alucinefestival.comwww.alucinefestival.comwww.facebook.com/aluCineFestivalwww.twitter.com/aluCineTO www.vimeo.com/user8970113

aluCine Film + Media Arts Festival celebrates the latest works by Latin-American artists at the forefront of innovation in film, video, and new media. aluCine seeks to showcase excellence and innovation in contemporary Latin-American film and new media works. Our annual festival functions as a vital Canadian outlet for emerging and established Latin filmmakers living in Canada, Latin America and the diaspora, while our year-round screenings, symposiums and workshops promote the development of Latin film and culture in Toronto. In all of our endeavours, aluCine strives to transgress aesthetic, ideological and geographical borders and to transcend pre-established notions of representation as they pertain to Latin American culture in Canada.

The Festival’s screenings, panel discussions and social and cultural events attract and connect filmmakers, media artists, programmers, buyers and industry professionals. The works accepted reflect the diversity of the Latin-American culture.Since its inception in 1995, aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts

Festival (known also as the Southern Currents Film & Video Collective, aluCine’s legal entity) continues to evolve to reflect the needs of its constituencies. Founded by Southern Currents Film & Video Collective in July of 1993 by Jorge Lozano, Ramiro Puerta and Ricardo Acosta.

While the Spanish language creates a common bond for the Hispanic community, our public is also extremely diverse, based in part on the political and socio-economic conditions of our members’ countries of origin. Therefore, the Spanish-speaking community functions through a community based on diversity. Our artistic vision reflects this, as we seek to create platforms for dialogue among film/video and new media artists, curators and audiences in Canada, Latin America, and throughout the diaspora.With the help of funders, sponsors and other community partners, aluCine is now regarded as one of the most important Latin-American film and media arts festivals in Canada. The ten-day aluCine Film + Media Arts Festival and aluCine’s year-round initiatives – including Free

Community Screenings, The Latin-American Cinema Masters Series (ongoing), and our Paso a Paso/Step by Step Video Training Workshops – fill a void in the artistic and cultural landscapes of Toronto in which Latin-American filmmakers and media artists are often underrepresented.

We are earnest in our role as advocates for the Latino media arts community. We also believe that it is important to recognize the need for our cultural institutions to grow and expand to give a sense of belonging to individuals in the region. As one of the few Latin-American Media Arts Festivals in Canada promoting independent productions, aluCine represents a rare opportunity for Latino-Canadian artists to network and present their works in a competitive international setting.

Welcome to aluCine!

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Outreach Coordinator: Juan Manuel GonzalezGuest Relations & Hospitality: Gloria BernalSocial Media Coordinator: Chinedu Egwuen Audiovisual Creative Director: Leonardo SuarezAudiovisual Production: Rodolfo Santibañez

PrOgrammingGuest Curators: Maria Coates, Zaira Zarza,

Groupe Intervention Video (GIV), Colectivo Toronto

Design TeamArt Direction: Luis Cisneros and Jose ArangurenProgram Book Designer: Jimena ErazoEditors: Jimena Erazo, Herlind Diaz,

From left to right: Gerson Peña, Chinedu Egwuen, Luwam Tekeste, Sinara Rozo Perdomo, Manar Abotouk, Jimena Erazo, and Rodolfo Saltibañez, Missing: Diana Cadavid, Alexandre Ramos, Gloria Bernal, Herlind Diaz, Leonardo Suarez, Juan Manuel Gonzalez and Diana Zapata.

BOarD OF DireCTOrsRosa SarabiaMiki NembhardJaime Escallón Christopher Trotman Alexandre RamosSean Brown

aDvisOry BOarDVictoria Moufawad-PaulCharles C. SmithScott Miller BerrySusan MartinFrancisco AlvarezSusan LordSusan Douglas

FesTival PhOTOgraPhyMagic Vision Photography Marcela Lucia RojasRodolfo Santibañez

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sTaFFExecutive Director: Sinara Rozo Perdomo Programming: Sinara Rozo, Diana Cadavid, Alexandre Ramos.Marketing Director: Herlind Diaz Marketing Coordinator: Jimena ErazoMarketing & Comm. Assistant: Diana ZapataFestival Coordinator: Manar AbotoukFestival Assistant: Luwam TekesteTraffic Coordinator: Gerson Peña


Thank you

Alexandra GelisAlvaro GironAndrei Rozo Perdomo Bassam AbotoukBisher AbotoukCamilo GislasonCatalain VintCecilia RamirezChris KennedyDaniela ChirinosDean JohnstonDesiree D’LimaEvelyn MesquitaFreweini Haile Gabriela BlancoGabriela EneroInas AdiIvan Zapata GilJavier Augusto NunezJoyce Hoang NguyenJuan Pablo PintoJulia GalvezJulian Andres CarvajalLeon Antonio ZapataLisa Valencia-SvenssonLiz Stembridge

Luis IbarraLuz Gabriela AlvarezLynx SiniestroMariana OsunaMariuxi Zambrano Martha Lucia Gil Martin HeathMatias AhumadaMauricio JimenezMichael TekesteMichelle van BeusekomNatalia LopezNico GislasonOscar Zapata GilPremwattie DeodatRichard VillavicencioRogers TV Rosa SarabiaRuth WilfordSean BrownSelvathy SayanthanShosho AbotoukSirak TekesteSoJin ChunSophie TekesteStephanie Alves

Tuline OutriUlysses Castellano William Barron Yanick Letourneauand to all our volunteers a big THANK YOU.


Film venues

Jackman hall Art Gallery of Ontario,

317 Dundas Street WestTel: (416) 979-6660 ext. 467(On West side of McCaul Street)

2 Theatre Direct Artscape Wychwood Barn

601 Christie StreetTel: (416) 537-4191

3 Cinecycle 129 Spadina Ave, Toronto

Tel: (416) 971-4273

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4 Beaver hall gallery 29 McCaul StreetTel: (416) 392-6802

If you require accessible or companion seating, please contact the Festival Office no later than 24 hours prior to a screening, so we can ensure that your needs are met. You can reach us by calling (416) 548-8914 or by emailing us at [email protected] usted requiere asientos accesibles, por favor póngase en contacto con la Oficina del Festival a más tardar 24 horas antes de la proyección, para poder garantizar que sus necesidades sean satisfechas. Puede comunicarse con nosotros llamando al (416) 548-8914 o por correo electrónico a [email protected].

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Box oFFIcE InFoRegular Screenings: $10Regular Screenings Students & Seniors: $8 (I.D. required)

shorts for shorties: Adults: $10 Children: $8, Siblings: $6 (under 18)

Opening night gala:Film+reception: $20 Only film: $15 Closing night gala: Film+party: $20 Only party: $15

all-access Pass: $75(10 Regular Screenings + Industry Sessions + Opening Night Gala, excluding Shorts for Shorties at Theatre Direct)

Same day tickets will be available on site one hour before the event. Cash only.Thirteen regular screenings and the opening night gala are restricted to those 18 years of age or older, according to the Ontario Theatres Act. Exceptions: Shorts for Shorties.

Beaver Hall GalleryJackman Hall · Art Gallery OntarioCinecycleTheatre DirectSpecial Event

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Christopher A. TrotmanOn behalf of the Board of Directors

It’s with great pleasure that we welcome you to the 15th anniversary of aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival! aluCine has a rich history of showcasing the best in Latin Film, media arts, and culture in a festive celebration that brings warmth into the hearts of Canadians, and highlights the fantastic contribution that Latino, Latin-American and Latin-Canadian artists make to the film and media arts industry.

This year marks an important milestone for the festival. There are not many Toronto film festivals that can say they’ve been in operation for 15 years, but for aluCine it is much more than just another moment in time. In the Latin culture 15, marks a coming of age—the Quinceañera marks a transition from childhood into womanhood. The celebrations and traditions differ from country to country, but the spirit of the Quinceañera remains the same. aluCine’s coming of age represents it’s maturity into a festival that has the ability to embody the spirit of Latin culture while maintaining the integrity of the artists that contribute their works to the festival every year. We are able to do this while at the same time creating a space that is approachable for Torontonians from all different walks of life. The balance between a wide-appeal and artistic sensibilities is a hard one to maintain, and aluCine has proven that it is up to the task and can perform beautifully.

This is a special year for the festival, and we hope that you take the time to enjoy as much of it as possible! From the films and gallery exhibits to the artist talks, everything has been carefully selected to represent aluCine’s coming of age, and the facets that make up the tapestry of Latin culture.

Sinara Rozo PerdomoExecutive Director

Summarizing all the emotions involved in producing a festival is an almost impossible task; maybe some could say that the most exciting moment of the process is selecting the films, while for others it’s about curating the exhibits, or the thrilling experience of planning the entire Festival. For me it’s about the entire process—it is like giving birth to a different child each year, painfully but gracefully, if that could

even be possible. Well, we all know everything is possible in the realm of the media arts. Don’t we?

After 15 years of working the uncountable hours, researching, networking, programming, planning, and community-building, we have grown into a full Quinceañera, and for the Latin-American culture that means a lot.

Quinceañera is the Spanish word for a girl who is 15 years old. It’s the name given to the coming-of-age celebration on her 15th birthday. The quinceañera had its origins many centuries ago when both boys and girls participated in rites of passage. To prepare for womanhood, girls were separated from other children at a certain age so the elder women could teach them about their future roles as members of family and community. During the official rites of passage, the community would thank the gods for the future wives and mothers, and the young women would vow to serve the community.

Later, missionaries turned the event into a personal affirmation of faith by the young women and a pledge to become good Christian wives and mothers. I firmly believe aluCine has done its part serving the community and would like to thank

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the funders for the ongoing support and all sponsors, partners and amigos for their faith in what we do. aluCine is certainly ready for the years to come, as it counts, with a solid family and community. The quinceañera is one of the few universal Latin American occasions; celebrated from New Jersey to Argentina and as such we have included media works from La Patagonia, Argentina to Vancouver, British Columbia. Together, this will make aluCine 2015 one of the most diverse and inclusive festivals since its inception.

This year’s Festival programs, which combine the daring style of filmmakers from various times and places and the diaspora, is a good starting point to know what has been achieved over the last 15 years, shedding light on the history of the Latin-American film and media arts in and outside of Canada and somehow anticipating the future. The multiplicity of voices in this year’s programming is such that it triggers a series of reflections and opens the possibility of understanding, not only the time of production but also of seeing a glimpse of reality itself, portraying a continent going through major historical changes.

New this year are two special experimental programs; a dark Latin Cinema “Noche Macabra” where Latin meets Goth complemented by a series of newly produced experimental films in Super 8. In the 1970s, Super 8 was an innovation that facilitated production, reduced costs and ensured mobility of the director, which gave rise to the creation of bold and irreverent films that defied production and thinking at the time. We are excited to be showcasing the work of one of the most important experimental filmmakers in Argentina, Claudio Caldini, with a stunning three-projector performance by Caldini himself!

With funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, we are proud to present Feelings, a contemporary art exhibition curated by Toronto-based Maria Coates, an emerging Latin-American curator and including works from internationally known artists.

The 70+ films selected this year along with a focus on Cuban diasporic films and the free OFF SCREEN events offer a comprehensive look at contemporary Latin American independent media arts. With our industry panels, artist talks and performances, we celebrate the ethnic and cultural identity of the continent, and confirm that Latin-American cinema and media arts have grown stronger as a means of cultural expression.

I would therefore like to thank all the artists who trusted us with their work and all our partners who make an effort to ensure that the Festival reaches new audiences increasingly and steadily. Furthermore, I would also like to thank all friends – visionaries and curators – who participated in the film and artwork selection process. It yielded long and entertaining conversations allowing us to find a pitch amidst the multitude of voices and silences that the current reality of Latin media arts provides us.

Deepest thanks to our dedicated staff, board and volunteers – we wouldn’t been able to do it without you!

Today, the quinceañera celebration often is a lavish party that may include a mariachi band, a feast and many guests—much like a wedding. Planning for a quinceañera can start as early as the birth of a daughter. The family and godparents save up money until the girl is of age. Actual preparations may take anywhere from six months to a year and a half. Dances have to be learned, decorations decided upon, cakes ordered, and in most cases, dresses made. We have been -in many ways- preparing for this celebration for a long time. All elements are in place now and this year’s festival will be filled with all of the flavour, fun, and excitement that a quinceañera party has to offer.

Feliz cumpleaños aluCine!

Welcome everyone, enjoy the festival!

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kathleen Wynne Premier of ontario

On behalf of the Government of Ontario, I am delighted to extend warm greetings to everyone attending the aluCine Toronto Latin Film and Media Arts Festival and celebrating its 15th anniversary.

A vibrant arts community is one of Ontario’s greatest assets — it broadens our horizons, inspires us to think creatively, and helps us empathize with different views, voices and ways of seeing the world.

For that reason, I applaud all who have contributed to this longrunning festival, including the gifted filmmakers, staff, sponsors, supporters and donors who have tirelessly worked to ensure this impressive showcase’s ongoing success. I commend the aluCine Festival for providing a platform for Latin artists to share their vision through film, new media installations, video performance and video art.

These artists should be applauded, for their creativity has enhanced the cultural landscape of this province. This festival’s commitment to celebrating excellence and diversity in Latin media art is inspiring. Through your efforts, Ontarians are able to familiarize themselves with issues in the Latin community — and with the immense talent possessed by Latin artists.

Please accept my best wishes for an inspiring and memorable anniversary celebration.

Simon Brault, o.c., o.Q. director and cEo

The Canada Council for the Arts salutes aluCine

At the Canada Council for the Arts, we believe that the arts expand our horizons and strengthen our society. That’s why we strive to broaden the public’s access to the arts, in part by supporting events like aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival.

Latin-Canadian film and media artists contribute tremendous talent and creativity to Canada’s cultural landscape. aluCine Festival provides an opportunity to discover their diverse stories and unique perspectives on issues that affect us all -- race, sexual orientation, gender, and politics to name a few.

We are proud to support aluCine as it celebrates its Quinceañera. We wish everyone involved a wonderful 15th anniversary and continued success.

Premier of Ontario - Première ministre de l’Ontario

April 2–12, 2015

A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER On behalf of the Government of Ontario, I am delighted to extend warm greetings to everyone attending the aluCine Toronto Latin Film and Media Arts Festival and celebrating its 15th anniversary. A vibrant arts community is one of Ontario’s greatest assets — it broadens our horizons, inspires us to think creatively, and helps us empathize with different views, voices and ways of seeing the world. For that reason, I applaud all who have contributed to this long-running festival, including the gifted filmmakers, staff, sponsors, supporters and donors who have tirelessly worked to ensure this impressive showcase’s ongoing success. I commend the aluCine Festival for providing a platform for Latin artists to share their vision through film, new media installations, video performance and video art. These artists should be applauded, for their creativity has enhanced the cultural landscape of this province. This festival’s commitment to celebrating excellence and diversity in Latin media art is inspiring. Through your efforts, Ontarians are able to familiarize themselves with issues in the Latin community — and with the immense talent possessed by Latin artists. Please accept my best wishes for an inspiring and memorable anniversary celebration.

Kathleen Wynne Premier


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adam Vaughan, Member of Parliament Trinity-Spadina

As Member of Parliament for Trinity-Spadina, it is my pleasure to extend warm greetings and best wishes to attendees, organizers and volunteers ahead of the 15th Annual aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival.

Canada’s longest-running Latin American film festival features works from Latin American and Latin Canadian

filmmakers, both emerging and established, and provides a venue for their unique and stunning artistic expressions.

By showcasing and celebrating Latin film and culture in Toronto, aluCine affirms and enriches our city’s incredible diversity and further enhances our incredible artistic and cultural fabric.

Thank you to all involved for your passion, creativity and hard-work which make this fantastic event a reality year after year. Congratulations on your many years of success, and Happy 15th Anniversary!

Michael coteau Minister Tourism, culture and Sport

On behalf of the Government of Ontario, I offer a warm welcome to everyone attending this year’s aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival.As the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, I greatly appreciate the ways our screen-based artists help us experience the world from new and different perspectives and the important role they have in building strong and vibrant communities.

Since it began in 1995, this festival has become Canada’s longest-running Latin film festival, attracting a broad and diverse audience that is growing each year. We in Ontario enjoy a rich cultural vitality and a deep appreciation for the arts, and I am grateful that festivals such as aluCine help us experience wonderful artistic achievements from around the world.

I would like to commend the artists for your vision and talent, festival staff and volunteers for your hard work and dedication, and partners and audiences for your support and enthusiasm.

Please accept my best wishes for an entertaining and engaging festival!

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Greetings from the Honourable Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport

On behalf of the Government of Ontario, I offer a warm welcome to everyoneattending this year’s aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival.

As the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, I greatly appreciate the ways our screen-based artists help us experience the world from new and different perspectives and the important role they have in building strong and vibrant communities.

Since it began in 1995, this festival has become Canada’s longest-running Latin film festival, attracting a broad and diverse audience that is growing each year. We in Ontario enjoy a rich cultural vitality and a deep appreciation for the arts, and I am grateful that festivals such as aluCine help us experience wonderful artistic achievements from around the world.

I would like to commend the artists for your vision and talent, festival staff and volunteers for your hard work and dedication, and partners and audiences for your support and enthusiasm.

Please accept my best wishes for an entertaining and engaging festival!

Sincerely,

Michael CoteauMinister


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Joe Mihevic city councillor Ward 21, St. Paul’s West

To the organizers of the aluCine Film Festival,

It is my pleasure to offer my welcome and support to the 15th aluCine Latin Film and Media Arts Festival. This festival has grown in reputation and size over the years and has proved itself to be an important pillar for celebrating Latin culture within this great city.

aluCine is the largest festival of its kind in Canada and continues to showcase groundbreaking films and highlights important Latin American art. aluCine consistently showcases the talent and creativity of film directors, animators, painters and photographers from this disapora so that it reaches audiences from all communities in Toronto.

This festival offers a platform for Latin artists to present their personal visions and raise issues vital to their communities. I am pleased to see these extraordinary talents and innovative voices being recognized and celebrated by this unique festival. I wish everyone a joyous celebration and memorable experience.

Paulina ayala Member of Parliament

It’s a very important year for aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival as they celebrate their 15 year anniversary. We would like to felicitate the organization for its commitment in the development of latino’s filmmaker. Thus, I fully support the Latin American community and will keep trying to help you open doors to talented filmmakers in Canada and abroad.

Over the last fifteen years, aluCine has captivated 25,000 audience members. As the festival’s popularity continues to grow, an audience that has doubled within the last two years. aluCine is quickly expanding its roots in the arts community, captivating filmmakers, producers, artists, broadcasters, distributors, curators, students, academics and film lovers.

It’s important for me, for all Canadians and for Latin Americans to be allowed to express our opinions, our voices. AluCine is a diversity of projects from both latino and Canadian influences. In a country like Canada, this kind of initiative attracts the awareness of sensitive subjects like: sexual orientation, racism, gender and politics.

I wish the best to aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival and wish them years of fabulous productions.

CONGRATULATIONS

It’s a very important year for aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival as they celebrate their 15th year anniversary. We would like to felicitate the organization for its commitment in the development of latino’s filmmaker. Thus, I fully support to the Latin American community and keep trying to help you opening doors to talented filmmaker in Canada and abroad. Over the last ten years, aluCine has captivated 25,000 audience members. As the festival’s popularity continues to grow, an audience that has doubled within the last two years. aluCine is quickly expanding its roots in the arts community, captivating filmmakers, producers, artists, broadcasters, distributors, curators, students, academics and film lovers. It’s important for me, for all Canadians and for Latin Americans to be allowed to express our opinions, our voices. AluCine it’s a diversity of projects from both latino and Canadian influences. In a country like Canada, this kind of initiative enables to attract the awareness on sensitive subjects like: sexual orientation, racism, gender and politics …

I wish the best to aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival and wish them years of fabulous productions.

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Community Office 747 St. Clair Ave. W.

Toronto, Ontario M6C 4C4 Telephone: 416-392-7460

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Toronto City Hall 100 Queen St. W., Suite B35 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2N2 Telephone: 416-392-0208

Fax: 416-392-7466

March 5, 2015 To the organizers of the aluCine Film Festival, It is my pleasure to offer my welcome and support to the 15th aluCine Latin Film and Media Arts Festival. This festival has grown in reputation and size over the years and has proved itself to be an important pillar for celebrating Latin culture within this great city. aluCine is the largest festival of its kind in Canada and continues to showcase groundbreaking films and highlights important Latin American art. aluCine consistently showcases the talent and creativity of film directors, animators, painters and photographers from this disapora so that it reaches audiences from all communities in Toronto. This festival offers a platform for Latin artists to present their personal visions and raise issues vital to their communities. I am pleased to see these extraordinary talents and innovative voices being recognized and celebrated by this unique festival. I wish everyone a joyous celebration and memorable experience. Sincerely,

Councillor Joe Mihevc Ward 21, St. Paul’s West


acknoWLEdgMEnTSHeartfelt thanks to the ongoing support of our funders who for years have given aluCine the possibility to present an unparal-leled opportunity to share new and alternative perspectives from Latin-American’s creativity, and for appreciating the vitality of our communities within our boundaries and beyond. Your vision and generosity continues to keep this festival alive and allow us to bring the best of Latin American independent filmmaking to Toronto. Your support also recognizes the importance of aluCine Festival in Canada.

The Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, On-tario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council

Many many thanks to our board members and staff:Rosa Sarabia, Christopher Trotman, Sean Brown, Alexandre Ra-mos, Miki Nembhard, Jaime Escallón, Sinara Rozo Perdomo, Diana Cadavid, Alexandre Ramos, Jimena Erazo, Gloria Bernal, Manar Abotouk, Herlind Diaz, Leonardo Suarez, Chinedu Egwuen, Rodolfo Santibañez, Juan Manuel Gonzalez Calcaneo, Neudis Abreu, Luwam Tekeste, Gerson Peña, Rodolfo Santibañez , Marcela Lucia Rojas, Diana Zapata and our wonderful Quinceañera: Mariuxi Zambrano.

special thanks to our awards sponsors, media partners:Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC), Women in Film & Television – Toronto (WIFT – T), Latinos Multicultural Magazine, Toronto Hispano.com, Hispanos en canada.ca, Now What, 360FM.ca, Correo Canadiense, Village Living Magazine.Arts (CCA), and to our wonderful and committed volunteers.

Thank you to our panelists, jury members and guest curators:Yanik Létourneau, Lisa Valencia, William Barron, Michelle van Beusekom, Maria Alejandrina Coates, Jorge Lozano, Julieta Maria, Kerry Potts, Jimmy Elwood, Zaira Zarza, Guillermina Buzio and Hugo Ares.

a Big thank you to our sponsors and community partners:Valdez Restaurant, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), Cónsul General de México en Toronto, Carranza Personal Injury Lawyers, Toronto School of Makeup, Fonda Lola Mexican Bistro, LULA Lounge, Magic vision Photography, Art Square, Pitú, Yellow Gazebo, El Fogón, Mango Pinton, Pancho’s Bakery and Jumbo Empanadas, Chocosol.

Big ups to our Co-presenters:Consulate General of Mexico, Goethe-Institut, Media Arts Net work of Ontario, Réseau des arts medi a tiques de l’Ontario (MANO/RAMO), FADO Performance Art Centre, OCAD, Super 8 film fest, Cinema Po-litica, The Images Festival, Ontario Latin Arts Festival, Las Perlas del Mar TV, Ontario Latin Arts Festival 2015, CaribbeanTales International Film Festival, Latin American Canadian Art Projects, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Inside Out Film Festival, Daily Xtra, Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples, Parkdale Film Festival, Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Mujer, The Female Eye Film Festival, Latin American and Ca-ribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN).

supporting Partners:Argentinian Consulate of Toronto, Colectivo Toronto, Colombia en Mis-sissauga, Intervention Video Groupe GIV, The Music Gallery, University of Toronto, Panamerican Food Festival, Hispanic Canadian Arts & Cul-tural Association, Hispanic Business Alliance, Uma Nota, and Canadi-an Hispanic Business Association.


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2015 Jury & aWardSPresenting award SponsorsAwards Ceremony on Sunday, April 5th • 11:00 - 11:30Valdez Restaurant • 606 King Street West

aluCine’s Festival awards exist to reward the talent, creativity and unique filmmaking capabilities of Latin American artists and their ability to move audiences with their innovative and inspiring work. We celebrate each of their distinct styles and the unique lens through which they view the world.

Michelle van Beusekom Interim director general of nFB English Program

Michelle van Beusekom is the Interim Director General of English-language production at the National Film Board, Canada’s public producer and distributor. She oversees creative direction, operations and finances for seven production studios

from coast to coast. The NFB’s English Program has about 100 projects in production at any given time and releases approximately 45 works annually in its core genres: documentary, animation and interactive projects for new platforms. Michelle is a firm believer in the role and possibilities of public media. She has an MA in political science and speaks English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

kerry Potts aboriginal arts advocate and Educator

Kerry Potts (Teme-Augama Anishnaabe) is an Aboriginal arts advocate and educator. Potts served as Director of Development and part of the Programming Team at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, and has worked in indigenous arts for over 15 years.

Jimmy Elwood Programmer, curator and Writer

Elwood Jimmy works as a programmer, curator, writer, community animator, arts manager, and artist. He is originally from the Thunder child Indian Reserve in northwestern Saskatchewan. Over the last decade, he has been supported

by a variety of organizations across the country in building and facilitating interdisciplinary projects that privilege collaboration, cross-cultural and cross-generational interaction around a variety of historical and contemporary narratives.

alucine Best Film award All films are eligible, sponsored by aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival • $500 cash prize

Best canadian Film award All Canadian works are eligible, sponsored by Canadian Filmmakers and Distribution Centre, CFMDC • $500 cash prize

alucine Best animation Film award All films are eligible, sponsored by aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival • $300 cash prize

alucine Best documentary Film award All films are eligible, sponsored by aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival • $300 cash prize

alucine Latin-canadian Female director award All films made by female GTA-based artists are eligible, sponsored by Woman in Film & Television, WIFT

Best audience award All films are eligible, sponsored by aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival

children’s award Shorts for Shorties All films are eligible, sponsored by aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival

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aluCine Showcases Excellence and Innovation inContemporary Independent Film+Media Arts

aluCine accepts submissions for all media arts

Entry fees: $20Deadline: December 15, 2015

www.alucinefestival.comaluCine is generously supported by

The Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Toronto Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council

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Art Gallery Ontario · 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto ON

Theatre Direct Artscape Wychwood Barns · 601 Christie Street, Toronto ON

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The dance of reality/La danza de la realidadAlejandro Jodorowsky2013 · Chile/France/Mexico · 130’ · Fiction

After a 23-year hiatus, The Dance of Reality marks the triumphant return of Alejandro Jodorowsky, the visionary Chilean filmmaker behind cult classics El Topo and The Holy Mountain. In the radiantly visceral autobiographical film, a young Jodorowsky is confronted by a collection of compelling characters that contributed to his burgeoning surreal consciousness. The legendary filmmaker was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on the edge of the Chilean desert, where the film was shot. Blending his personal history with metaphor, mythology, and poetry, The Dance of Reality reflects

Jodorowsky’s philosophy that reality is not objective but rather a “dance” created by our own imaginations.

About Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean scholar in comparative religion, playwright, director, producer, composer, actor, mime, comic book writer, tarot reader, historian and psychotherapist. He is perhaps best-known for the 1970 film El Topo. Jodorowsky has only made seven feature films in the last 45 years, but he is revered among fans of cinematographic fantasy. In the 1970s, he was a genuine superstar of the international artistic counter-culture. For many years, he dedicated himself to creating comic strips, writing books

and teaching the Tarot. The Dance of Reality, which brings to an end a 23-year absence from the big screen, is a kind of autobiographical essay in which Alejandro Jodorowsky invites the audience on an introspective journey, with a moving return to his own childhood and his fantastical universe.

Awards & Nominations: 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Oslo Films from the South Festival, Munich Film Festival, Village Voice Film Poll.

The Dance of reality/la Danza de la realidadSunday, April 5th · 21:00Jackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario

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For dorian/Para dorianRodrigo Barriuso2012 · Canada · 15’· Fiction

A father fears the sexual awakening of his disabled son, a teenager living with Down syndrome, and struggles with the notion of letting him grow up.

Meaningful ThingsYanay Penalba2011 · Canada · 2’· Short FictionNorth American Premiere

Migration is part of every Cuban’s life in one way or another. In this short video the filmmaker shows how diaspora was not only part of her life but it also changed her life.

ImprovisationImprovisaciónJorge de Leon2012 · Canada · 2’· Experimental Toronto Premiere

A film about impressions of past and present experiences of travel and movement.

Cuban Filmmakers in CanadaFriday, April 3rd · 6:00Jackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario

Over a million Canadians visit Cuba every year being the nationality that vacations the most on the Island. Thus, many of their perceptions of Cubanness are linked to stereotypes related to the commercial tourist industry. Also, via the Canadian immigration system thousands of Cubans have become permanent residents of Canada in recent years. Located across Canada, Cuban filmmakers have produced films in collaboration with institutions such as the Toronto Film School, Ryerson university, the National Film Board of Canada and the project Kinomada Quebec. The low budget-short films included in this program expand from fiction to experimental and animation; some connected to the homeland and others engaged in a more global understanding of the art and industry of filmmaking.

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retinaMilena Almira and Ernesto René Rodríguez2013 · Canada · 7’ 45’· Fiction Toronto Premiere

One town, two people, and an incomprehension marked by loneliness and isolation.

La BôiteLester Harbert2013 · Canada · 3’48’’· Fiction-ExperimentalToronto Premiere

A Cuban émigré is born again after moving to a new country.

Song for cuba/canción para cubaTamara Segura2014 · Canada · 7’· Fiction

Fiction inspired by a true story about memory and music that follows a young Cuban couple charting new courses for their lives on another island of the North Atlantic.

Before War/antes de la guerraTamara Segura2014 · Canada · 6’· Fiction

A man returns home from being a soldier in the war. The military experience left such a print on his life and his family’s that their relationship will never be the same.

cuBan dIaSPorIc FILMMakErS In canada Jackman Hall · Art Gallery Ontario · 317 Dundas Street West · $10 · Students/Seniors: $8

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Fantasmas Cromáticos Films of Claudio CaldiniFriday, April 3rd · 7:30Jackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario Live performance Fantasmas Cromaticos

Claudio Caldini is one of the most important experimental filmmakers in Argentina. He began making films during the 1970s at a time of great political upheaval, yet he was able to work amongst a community of filmmakers like Narcisa Hirsch and Marielouise Allemann who formed a creative network of like-minded artists. That creative milieu became a touchstone for Argentina’s vibrant filmmaking scene, a scene that Caldini has continually influenced through his prolific filmmaking output and a legendary and long-standing Super 8 workshop series in Buenos Aires.

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Caldini’s films, made and shown on Super 8 film, explore spiritual and philosophical quests through a practice that blends the act of seeing with the mechanical possibilities of the camera. They are lyrical masterpieces, transforming vision into lush studies of superimposition, blurred landscapes and inner mysticism. Caldini will present a short suite of super 8 films followed by a stunning three-projector performance exploring live colour manipulation of the cityscape. This is a rare chance to see the films projected, as the unique nature of Super 8 film prints require that Caldini travel with them.

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Waiting room/Sala de EsperaAngela Duque2013 · Colombia · 4’3” · FictionCanadian Premiere

Alfredo, a smart and handsome executive, will have to endure the folly of Pedro while they are waiting their turn to be served.

VhS heads/cabezas de VhSManuel Lacunza2013 · Bolivia · 20’12” · DocumentaryCanadian Premiere

Kowalski is a technitian that repairs videocassets’ and television sets, and along with Cooper (one o his clients) and McFly a college student, creates the Cassette or Videotape movement, a political and cultural movement that revindicates the distribution format and audiovisual use of the VHS. They along with four other lovers of the VHS films, show us their day by day life, their tastes, their problems, and the interior and exterior struggles of this movement.

The Queen/La reinaManuel Abramovich2013 · Argentina · 19’· Documentary Toronto Premiere

Her crown is so heavy, they had to remove weight from it. She couldn’t carry it. It would fall off her head; but now she doesn’t want anything else to be done with it because she looks so pretty.

Borderline Friday, April 3rd · 9:30 pmJackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario

There’s a special kind of beauty in seeing the world through a different lens. From a fresh and new perspective we can recognize a kind of parallel universe, devoted to the past, the future or to small obsessions. Anguish, fear, joy and good humor mingle and create unusual scenarios, with characters that seem straight out of a fiction movie.

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Porcelain/PorcelanaBetzabé García2013 · Mexico · 12’ · Fiction Toronto Premiere

Between the fantasy and the reality of her childhood, Marian discovers new elements to the aspects of family life, death and sexuality, all in a single day.

orishasFelipe Ramírez-Rodríguez and Santiago Echeverry2014 · USA/Canada/Colombia · 6’ 50” Experimental

“Orishas” is a mixed-media piece created in homage to the communion between the world of the visible and the invisible, as epitomised in the Santeria ritual. This occurs, according to tradition, when a deity – Orisha - manifests himself/herself in human form through the body of a Santero, after an intense and ecstatic ceremony involving drumming, dancing and chanting.

The Master’s VoiceGuilherme Marcones2013 · Brazil/France/USA · 12’· Animation

Every night at 3:33 all clocks stop and time is frozen for a moment. During what is a fraction of second to mortal eyes there is a second night, a magical one where the spirits of the city come out to play. That is the story of the eternal battle for the soul of Sao Paulo, the clash between bohemia and authoritarianism, between comedy and horror.

LuxAlvaro Duque2014 · Peru · 7’ 17” · Fiction Canadian Premiere

As it turns dark, we witness an encounter that won’t repeat itself again.

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arasiaKolicko Strychnine (Roberto Cantu)2012 · Canada · 3’ 22” · FictionToronto Premiere

A destructive twisted abomination, deciding between good and evil, sanity against madness represented by terrifying dolls.

Love at Last SightOscar Hernandez- Topete2014 · USA · 16’40” · Fiction Toronto Premiere

Sully is a Frenchman living in Manhattan. He has it all: the charm, the smarts, the looks. But he also has one quirk: he’s a serial rapist. When Sully encounters an elusive bartender, Stephanie, he unwittingly meets his match. Stephanie lures him into her dark world and confronts him with the ultimate challenge.

Monster/MounstroLuis Mariano García2014 · Mexico · 10’· Fiction

Sara helps her little brother, Tomas get over his fear of the monster.

noche macabra Friday, April 3rd · 11:00CinceCycle

Strange things begin to happen right before the clock strikes midnight. Suspense and fear may fill the air, but there’s also a sense of belonging as death and life go hand in hand. For some of us this is something to celebrate. Welcome to the underworld! Enjoy awesome macabre cinema and let’s party the night away. Trust us, you don’t want to be sitting at home alone tonight. You may take that as a warning.

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Tuck Me InIgnacio F. Rodo2014 · Spain · 1’ · Fiction Canadian Premiere

Alex asks his father to tuck him in, but that’s not the only thing he asks for.

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PombasNatalia Koren and Vini Fontoura2013 · Brazil · 1’ 15’· Animation Short

Do you know when you’re driving quietly and suddenly sees a pigeon that insists not to get out of the way? In this short movie, the epic battle between a dear grandfather and a strange “dove” finally shows us the other side of the story.

The dancing class/La clase de baileCamilo Cogua Rodriguez2013 · Colombia · 3’ 53’ · Animation Short

Juliana was always strange to her classmates. Does not dress like them, does not have hair like them, does not speak about the same things. One day, one of her classmates finds out why she has always been different.

Malaika: La PrincesaLizardo Carvajal2013 · Colombia · 7’ 46’ · Animation Short Canadian Premiere

Malaika is an African girl, princess of an elephant herd, who lives on the back of her father Komba. During the long journey on the search of waterholes, Malaika will understand that memory is the key of the survivals of the elephants.

short for shorties Saturday, April 4th · 11:00Theatre Direct

Whenever the world is seen from the child’s point of view, it becomes more colourful. There are beautiful encounters, some disagreements, love, friendship, life and death, which magically turns into animation. Each character grows a little by the end of each story and we grow along with them.

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yo Te quiero!Nicolas Conte2014 · Argentina · 9’ · Animation Short Toronto Premiere

In his usual way back from school Juancito, a solitary country boy from Patagonia, meets a little horse which seems to be abandoned. The joy of having a new and wonderful friend to play with makes the boy think he can keep it. He cannot realize that the horse is actually waiting for the return of his real owner.

9:30 aMAlfonso de la Cruz2014 · Mexico · 8’ 48’’· Animation Short Toronto Premiere

A child spending holidays at his grandmother house, show us how moments of daily life are full of complex emotions with simple meanings. When an unfortunate conflict that only adults understand happens, his life is affected directly. The kid without understanding the reason of the problem, must discover the solution to return everything to normal.

El corazon del SastreSofia Carrillo2014 · Mexico · 12’ · Animation Short

The old Tailor travels around the world in search of his heart beats.

El Maestro y la FlorDaniel Irabien2014 · Mexico · 8’ 50” · Animation Short

In a selfish and violent world, where everyone is against everyone, a teacher finds refuge taking care of a delicate flower, to which he tells his dreams and desires. Nevertheless, one day he stumbles upon a pretty young woman, and falls in love with her. Without money and not much else to offer, he decides to give this young woman his most precious possession in an attempt to win her heart.


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historia de un osoGabriel Osorio Vargas2014 · Chile · 10’ 19” · Animation Toronto Premiere

An old bear goes out every day to a busy street corner. Through a tin marionette theater of his own making, the bear will tell us his life story.

The giftJulio Pot Espiñeira2013 · Chile · 7’ 50” · Animation

The story of an ordinary couple, when he gives her a small sphere pulled out his chest, she can’t separate herself from her new gift… even after they break up.

galus galusClarissa Duque2013 · Venezuela · 11’ 44’ · Animation

Maybe, some time ago, he had a family. Maybe once, some time ago, he was loved. Maybe, some time, he had loved ones waiting for him, missing him. Today he is only a shadow, lost amongst all the shadows of the days that begin and no one sees. He is a shadow that wakes up in the sidewalk and rummages the trashcans, searching for plastic bottles or cans to sell for a few coins that will give him to eat for the day. It’s the fight to survive one more day, every day, one more day.


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Piscina municipal Municipal Swimming PoolPatricia Pérez2014 · Spain/Cuba · 37’51” · Documentary

Dealing with politics, the weather, sports, cooking habits, dreams and much more, the film explores the lives of multiple characters of different generations that work and visit a public swimming pool in Coruña, Galicia.

ExtravíoDaniellis Hernandez2008 · UK/Cuba · 21’· DocumentaryNorth American Premiere

A Cuban black woman, lost in the cold streets of Manchester, England, tries to find warmth and comfort in those with her same skin color, believing she might identify with them. But reality will change that certainty into questions, and her search will be more exhausting than she could foresee.

The great small Cinemas of Cuban Female FilmmakersSaturday, April 4th · 2:30 pmTheatre Direct · Artscape Wychwood Barns

For a young generation of Cuban women filmmakers in the diaspora, non-fiction filmmaking is shedding light on the question of remapping Cuban current audiovisual production overseas and translating personal experiences of postcolonial displacement into films. In the space of the diaspora young women have been able to subvert the patriarchal predicament of Cuban cinema and the International Film and Television School (EICTV) has had a central role in this emergence.

This program features the diaspora work of two Cuban women filmmakers who are graduates from the EICTV in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.

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Where is home? identity, intimacy and Belonging in the Work of heidi hassanSaturday, April 4th · 4:00 pmJackman Hall • Art Gallery of Ontario

Heidi Hassan is a fundamental figure in the post-2000 panorama of Cuban diasporic cinemas. Her filmmaking is crucial to contextualize the experience of what Hamid Naficy has called “accented styles”: interstitials modes of filmmaking through which affective, first-person and selfreflexive audiovisual works emerge. Hassan explores different politics of place that reflect on the forms of citizenship, being and belonging faced by a racialized migrant woman filmmaker in the diaspora. Her presence as a guest artist in aluCine will allow diverse audiences to engage in conversations about multiple constructions of diasporic identity. The notions of home, borders and intimate spaces are essential in this program of autobiographical short films, some of which the filmmaker narrates and stars in.

Heidi Hassan (Havana, 1978) is a photographer, cinematographer and film director. After obtaining a Diploma in Photography Direction at the International Film and Television School (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, she studied Film Direction at Geneva’s Superior School of Arts and Design (HEAD). She has developed a personal ouvre with numerous collaborations as DP in short and feature fiction and documentary films. Hassan’s works have been exhibited in prestigious film festivals such as the Journée Suisse at Cannes, the Locarno Film Festival, Visions du Réel-Nyon, Clermont-Ferrand and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Her upcoming feature documentary Portrait à l’encre will be codirected with long-term friend and collaborator Patricia Pérez. She currently lives and works between Spain and Switzerland.

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WhErE IS hoME? IdEnTITy, InTIMacy and BELongIng In ThE Work oF hEIdI haSSan

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MiserereHeidi Hassan2005 · Switzerland · 13’ · Fiction North American Premiere

A guide leads a group of illegal immigrants into a forest towards an uncertain future.

ExileHeidi Hassan2007 · Switzerland · 5’· Fiction International Premiere

What are the meanings of exile? What are we exiled from?

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Tierra rojaHeidi Hassan2007 · Switzerland · 18’ · Fiction Canadian Premiere

Between the past and the present, here and elsewhere, a young migrant mother wanders in Geneva. The film is an amazing immersion into the psyche of the female diasporic subject.

Carabela de Plata for Best Latin American short feature at the Bilbao International Festival of Documentary Short Film (ZINEBI), Premio de Amnistia Internacional in the Festival Internazionale del Cortometraggio Corto Helvético al Femminile, Best Film Award at the 7th Young Filmmakers Showcase in Havana.

orages d’étéHeidi Hassan2014 · Switzerland · 25’ · FictionNorth American Premiere

The beginning of a love story inspires the filmmaker to put herself in scene. She reveals her loving life and privacy as she speaks about her doubts and desires facing the new relationship. Her story becomes a poetic portrait.

WhErE IS hoME? IdEnTITy, InTIMacy and BELongIng In ThE Work oF hEIdI haSSan Jackman Hall · Art Gallery Ontario · 317 Dundas Street West · $10 · Students/Seniors: $8

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“Out n’ loud”: screenings of Films made at aluCine’s Film WorkshopSaturday, April 4th · 4:30 pmTheatre Direct · Artscape Wychwood Barns

The “Latin Out’n Loud” workshop is an extension of a Latin project established in 1996 called “Self Representation Hands On.” Once again, we have responded to the lack of access of production facilities and financial barriers by bringing our resources and knowledge to the participating youth.

This workshop aimed at building new storytellers and their audiences as well as making the Queer and Latin community proud of their work. Through the designed activities and group discussions, participants were granted the space to gain and develop long lasting professional relationships with key mentors. This provided them with another avenue of independence and the fundamentals to continue in artistic endeavors with a form of knowledge and creative education. We believe the workshop to be a stepping-stone for these new storytellers who will continue to explore new media and expressions.

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aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival deeply acknowledges the support received by the Ontario Arts Council in support of this workshop. We set out to channel the creativity and thoughts of participants in a constructive manner and the program became an educational tool that exists outside the traditional education system where it compliments the youth’s sociological and economic experiences. Our intention was to motivate them to express themselves visually and to encourage future initiatives in the production of film and video art work. Moreover, we wanted to provide an opportunity for participants to express themselves and their concerns as individuals and as Latin Canadians.



after/despuésValeria Pérez Delgado2013 · Argentina · 17’· Fiction Toronto Premiere

Three brothers and one village. Three ages. Three realities. A car without gasoline. A name written on a piece of paper. The field’s silence turns them into strangers to one another.

Bajo el Último Techo under the Last roofÉdgar A. Romero2013 · Mexico · 12’ · Short FictionNorth American Premiere

Beto, who is nine years old, is overprotected by his grandparents. When Stephany,a transsexual, moves into the building, a friendship takes seed that confronts the child against his conception of the world.

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Julio Baldeón, Ecuador2014 · Ecuador · 11’ · Fiction International Premiere

Fernando is a teenager who lives in an old house with his mother and the whole family. In a world ruled by bourgeois appearances; a desire to have space is born in him, a desire to escape this reality and form their own life.

Bittersweet - Queer ProgramSaturday, April 4th · 6:00 pmJackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario

Sexual difference can lead to bitter situations, but can also become something funny. The films presented in this program speak of transformation and resilience, with enough humor needed to address the usual family disapproval or the contradictions of a sweet happy ending.

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JessyPaula Lice, Ronei Jorge and Rodrigo Luna2013 · Brazil · 15’ · Documentary

“Jessica Cristopherry” That was the name of all Paula Lice´s childhood characters. As an actress, playwright and woman, Paula counts on godmothers to bring Jéssica to life and fulfill Paula´s wish of becoming a drag queen.

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Vida reciclada recycled LifeDaniela Candia2013 · Paraguay· 11’ 40’’· Fiction

Like all naps, a pair of pickers starts your itinerary. Hopelessness seems to be part of the carriage that pushes. The ride uphill, from the streets of Saxony district of Asunción, is heavy, but it’s not just the tiredness that slows his steps. This time, extreme poverty is not the only “load” piggybacking.

The Migrants/retirantesMaíra Coelho2014 · Brazil · 13’23” · Animation

Based in a Brazilian famous painting by Candido Portinari (Retirantes, 1944), the puppet short film THE MIGRANTS tells the story of a woman traveling through an arid, depopulated region, unable to feed her baby. It presents a dreamlike vision that uses the unique elements of the area where the film is set. A religious procession praying for help, children, local peasants and a group playing traditional music are some of the figures who appear in this sensitive, magical portrait of a suffering people and their difficulties and idiosyncrasies.

When it Lifts its Little Eyes up/La grenouille Et dieuAlice Furtado2014 · France/Brazil · 20’ · Fiction

Mad love story – a threat comes to haunt everyday banality. A young man in his twenties with tough manners. A grown, pregnant woman. The two of them have been living together for a few months in a tiny apartment in the suburbs, until the day money runs out. Bypassing moral standards, carried away by the truth of senses, they go for a walk across the city, running towards nature – a ruthless witness to their acts, but also their last shelter.

Families, Change and ReflectionSaturday, April 4th · 7:30 pmJackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario

The different stories in these films reveal a dramatic, romantic and aesthetic look at things that families cannot always control. In the unpredictable circumstances or even our own decisions, the loss of something is always an opening for change and reflection.

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Los Trapos al SolRamiro Zamorano2014 · Chile · 12’ · Fiction Toronto Premiere

Silvana arrives to the south of Chile in search of her father. As the hours pass, her anxiety increases as she waits for him to make his appearance. She spends her time fantasizing about the encounter while she discovers the place and its people. With their help, details are unveiled about this person that is so unknown to her.

Luna Vieja Raisa Bonnet2013 · Puerto Rico · 12’ · Fiction

The landscape is stunning and the wind constantly blows. The rolling hills of this little village in Puerto Rico are covered in tropical forest. The view from Elsa’s house is fabulous. Her husband has just died and her relatives have arrived to take their leave of him. Elsa observes with concern the relationship between her son-in-law and his daughter. Nonetheless, she continues to go about preparing food, hanging out the washing, feeding the chickens and tending the garden. Only her face gives away her unease.

Música Para después de dormir/Music for the ultimate dreamNicolás Rojas Sánchez2013 · Mexico · 10’ · Fiction

Fidencio, an old violinist, begins searching for the members of his old orchestra to greet his son. When life goes silent, music finds us anew.

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La Silla/Electric chairDavid Muñoz Velasco2014 · Brazil · 2’20 · Animation

A man is executed on the electric chair, however, the reasons behind the execution are far more terrifying than the act itself.

The hand That FeedsRachel Lears, Robin Blotnick2014 · USA · 88’ · Documentary Canadian Premiere

At a popular deli on New York’s Upper East Side, customers get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers.

Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma López has never been interested in politics, but in January 2012 he convinces a small group of his co-workers to fight back. Risking deportation and the loss of livelihood, the workers team up with a diverse crew of innovative young organizers and take the unusual step of forming

an independent union, launching themselves on a journey that will test the limits of their resolve.

In one rollercoaster year they must overcome a shocking betrayal and a two-month lockout. Lawyers will battle in backroom negotiations, Occupy Wall Street protesters will take over the restaurant, and a picket line will divide the neighbourhood. If they can win a contract, it will set a historic precedent for low-wage workers across the country. But whatever happens, Mahoma and his compañeros won’t be exploited again.

Best of Fest, AFI Docs Festival, Washington, D.C., 2014; Audience Award, Best Feature, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, N.C., 2014; Jury Prize, Best Documentary Feature, Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, Al., 2014; International Jury Prize, Human Rights Film Festival, Glasgow, 2014

The hand that FeedsSaturday, April 4th · 9:30 pmJackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario

The abundance of temporary workers used for cheap labour with human and labour rights violations is of local and international concern. The reality is that imperialist governments and economies need immigration more than immigrants need the country. However, the system has created a perception that immigrants are weak outsiders and are here with the belief that their stay is based on their service to the “real citizens” of the country. This program reflects on these issues and portrays how it is possible to change this dynamic/game.

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LamentoVivian Gottheim2011 · Canada · 1’ · Animation

One image only appears and disappears: that of an anti-lope which grazes. It trembles all along. A feeling of instability settles. Always disappearing, it is the memory of a peaceful and natural moment, remote, which comes and goes from the surface in stages, in pieces. This constructed image reflects our split up feelings, activated by our manipulated and organized contemporary views. Lamento stands for a heart impregnated with nostalgia for the calm, for the simple, for time that is stretched.

Suburban origamiSoJin Chun2009 · Canada · 3’50 · Animation

In this performative video, SoJin Chun conceptualizes high-rise buildings in downtown Toronto by creating large-scale origami boxes and stacking them in various configurations. By placing these colourful boxes in an alleyway of a suburban neighbourhood, the artist disrupts urban planning, meaning the social and economic hierarchies assigned to places. This project is part of Fraction/Memory curated by Rita Kamacho, in which invited artists created performative videos in public spaces in response to their memories attached to their chosen locations.

BoredomPatricia Rivas2014 · Canada · 9’4 · Art Video

Boredom takes a look at the state of ennui. The video explores the artists’ path in her quest to better understand boredom. Long takes present the artist and those close to her. These shots appear throughout the video.

Crossing linesSunday, April 5th · 5:00 pmJackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario

This program features independent media artworks by Canadian artists of Latin American heritage. This screening is a celebration of Groupe Intervention Vidéo, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2015.

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ImpasseInés Wickmann2008 · Canada/France · 6”20 · Experimental

The Colombian sky opens to a vibrant and diversified city. A lost figure floats in this urban environment which gradually looses color. Reality seems to shift. What does it tell us? Despair is the final comment on this metaphor, a personal look at a complex and ambiguous reality. The original composition is by Beatriz Ferreya.

Skye Carol Fernandes2013 · Canada · 10’ 1 · Experimental

Nobody wants to tell Skye, a nine-year-old girl, what is happening in the family. She sees doctors come and go, and she knows something has to be going on. Her mother, bedridden and nearing death, cannot bring herself to offer Skye the support she needs. Her grandmother is unable to acknowledge the little girl’s suffering. The child, feeling isolated and confused, clings to the memories of being driven around to sleep as she tries to make sense of what even adults find confounding.

BlackGuillermina Buzio and Jorge Lozano2007 · Canada · 5’ · Fiction

When Edward BlackFire was making his film, many unexpected disclosures happened.

Punctum & BlackJuana Awad2011 · Canada · 7’ · Performance

Using as a starting point Barthes’ notion of the Punctum, this installation investigates the relationship between the body-live, the body-object (as cinematographic body) and the lack of body.

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only Women Who die a Violent death go directly to a ParadiseMonument to Ciudad JuarezClaudia Bernal2002 · Canada/Mexico · 3’ · Experimental

An art video inspired by what at first were considered isolated events, but which gradually turned into an historic hecatomb, a holocaust against women. Since 1993, more than 260 women between the ages of 15 and 25 have been violently murdered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. A good example of a modern city: industrialized and violent; located at the border, this is a kind of no man’s land, a city of transit, a work zone very insecure for women.

reminiscencesPetunia Alves2013 · Canada · 3’04 · Essay

Reminiscences is a reflection on distance, grief and memory, through the landscapes of my childhood in Piraju, Brazil.

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MineritaRaúl de la Fuente2013 · Bolivia/Spain · 27’ · Documentary

Cerro Rico in Potosí (Bolivia) is a lawless territory, characterised by brutal violence. The miners risk their lives every day, digging for silver and zinc in crumbling galleries. The ones that survive think they’re entitled to anything and everything. And that’s when they go on the hunt… for women. Minerita is the story of three women—Lucía (40), Ivone (16) and Abigail (17)—who work as night watchwomen or inside the mine, struggling to survive in an inhuman inferno. Their only weapon is their courage… and dynamite.

Techos rotosYanillys Pérez2014 · Dominican Republic · 17’18” ·

In a small village in the Dominican Republic, Anna, a 12 year old girl, is living a difficult childhood, she is faced with the absence of an irresponsible mother. She must take care of her two young sisters. Her dream is to make her first communion and to wear this immaculate white dress. Unfortunately, her spiritual quest is endangered.

Jerminación Zeed SproutingPaúl Gómez López,2014 · Mexico · 9’30 · Animation

Juanita, a little girl from a rural town wants to learn the seed sprouting experiment. Instead the difficulties she will find that imagination is the best tool to shape the person she will like to be.

On identity, Politics & human rightsSunday, April 5th · 7:00 pmJackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario

To talk about politics is to actually talk about identity and human rights; perhaps the problem begins when these three elements are separated. Our work, our financial situation, and the relationship with our countries (living inside or outside of them) are directly influenced by the systems, good and bad, that society constructs. But in the end, what really counts are the stories of each person’s story.

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hit Me up If The World Ends/ Se o Mundo acabar, Me dê um ToqueRenato Sircilli2014 · France/Brazil · 16’ 51 · Experimental

From Brussels to São Paulo, letters are sent to someone who doesn’t answer or perhaps doesn’t even receive them. Streets are falling apart and police sirens soaring incessantly, a cry for help. Let’s stay together one more time, kept inside my apartment made of steel and concrete. Four letters in different moments portray the end of a relationship at the same time as the political chaos erupts in the European capital. The crisis doesn’t only affects the socio-economic system, but also ourselves and our relationships.

Silencio chino chinese Silence Javier Melero2013 · Venezuela · 14’ · Thriller

Chinese Silence tells the story of Chiung, a Chinese boy whose mother suffers the excesses of her abusive husband and yet teaches his son to remain passive. Time passes by. Chiung is now an adult who works as a cashier on a small grocery store. One night, a woman points him with a gun and asks him to give her all the money. Chiung remains disconcertingly quiet and starts to remember the moments of his life that have led him to this situation and the reasons for his silence. His life now depends on his ability to communicate. Will he be able or be willing to do it?

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El Palacio/ The PalaceNicolas Pereda2013 · Mexico · 36’53 · Documentary

The Palace is a documentary that follows the everyday life of seventeen women that live together in a large house for emotional and financial reasons. They help each other training for various jobs. Most become nannies, domestic workers and private nurses for old age patients.

rupturaAlejandro Valbuena2014 · Canada · 14’ · Fiction

Ruptura is an experimental short film that explores the issues of mental illness, cross-cultural interaction and more importantly the fear and guilt fuelled by external perceptions. In an environment surrounded by shame, stigma and the lack of awareness, sometimes is better to fold in and crawl in silence.

InfiernoUlysses Castellanos2013 · Canada · 2’15 · Experimenta Canada Premiere

An allegorical midway ride-from-hell scenario, shot while riding the “Hurricane” amusement ride at the Canadian National Exhibition.

identidad, latin Canadian ContemporarySunday, April 5th · 9:00 pmJackman Hall · Art Gallery of Ontario

This session makes us realize that we “the audience”, the spectators in the movie theatre, have the opportunity to watch the different ways in which reality can be presented. Time works in our favor, mainly because we need it to better understand the daily life of some characters. And if we do not understand other languages… this is a very familiar question for us Canadians who are also from elsewhere.

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La Sagrada Solución Jose Luis Saturno2015 · Canada/Mexico · 4’30 · Thriller

A priest conceives an unconventional criminal model to suit his ambitions

La culpa común, Teorías de diestras y zurdas/The common guiltCamilo Martín-Flórez2015 · Canada/Chile · 12’31 ·Documentary World Premiere

The Common Guilt -Theories of left-ies and righties is a found-footage-film about the perpetuity of the subjects existing within the Chilean Filmic and Audiovisual Heritage. In particular, this documentary piece is a manifesto of Chile’s political dichotomy – a dichotomy that is inherent for the idiosyncrasies of the Chilean society.

Water Washing Through Bones/ Encuentro Laura Marie Wayne2013 · Cuba · 11’41 · Documentary Toronto Premiere

Filmed deep in the heart of eastern Cuba, a series of hushed, contemplative moments in the life of an elderly man weave a meditation of both solitude and the search to see oneself reflected in another.

The ForeignerMaya Annik Bedward2014 · Canada · 10’ 26 · Fiction World Premiere

Christopher, a reclusive night owl, wanders the cold streets of Toronto. When a mysterious woman lures him into a tropical party, he finds himself in an unexpected confrontation that he can only resolve by coming out of his shell. A poetic portrait of Toronto’s Brazilian folk scene, The Foreigner is a short film about finding the magical worlds that exist behind our city’s walls.

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Maria alejandrina coatesCurator

Maria Alejandrina Coates is a Uruguayan-born, Toronto-based curator and writer whose interests include art practices grounded in social, pedagogical, and collaborative frameworks. She is a co-founder of SOS Curatorial Collective and Project Coordinator at e-fagia Visual and Media Arts Organization, who last year organized the Decolonial Aesthetics of the Americas Symposium at the University of Toronto.

Maria received a bachelors degree from the University of British Columbia and a Masters degree in Art History and Curatorial Studies from York University. She maintains an active research and curatorial practice, and currently serves as a board member for the Gendai Gallery in Toronto, ON.

Her recent writing will be published in the upcoming volume (3.2) of the peer-reviewed Journal of Curatorial Studies, edited by Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick.

“FEELIngS” conTEMPorary arT ExhIBITIon Thursday, april 2nd · 6:00 pmExhibit will be running until Thursday, April 16th. Beaver Hall Gallery

Anger, pain, love, devotion, despair, isolation, loss, sadness, and frustration are just a few examples of the spectrum of emotions that are negotiated within a person at any given moment. In mainstream media, the use of technology is employed as a transparent and neutral stage where these emotions are performed through a given set of behavioural roles. According to José Esteban Muñoz , this perceived neutrality of media and technology is in fact, a disseminator of an affective code of colonial power that establishes itself as the cultural logic of the state. In the context of aluCine and filmmaking as a genre, this exhibition will explore the hyper-emotional stereotype of the Latin-American dramatic character, and examine the element of feeling in media art as a means to disrupt the homogenous space of the mediatic and virtual realms.

The five artists in this exhibition invoke the use of affect, whether genuine or artificial, to activate digital interfaces, and position emotion as a politicized state of being. Media and performance are used to disturb embedded social cues for conveying emotion, and reorganize the senses in ways that allow for a multiplicity of subjectivities and inter-textual relationships to emerge.

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dolor/PainGabriela Golder Multichannel Channel Installation

The screens are occupied by several women inhabiting different spaces within their homes. They have each chosen a text (a letter, a passage from a book, an entry in a journal), that embodies their experience of pain. They stand in front of the camera and read out loud, as if from a script, occupying their space with stories of loss, suffering, and sorrow.

Gabriela Golder Visual artist, curator and professor of Video and New Technologies in Argentina and abroad. She is the co-director of the Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (BIM) and CONTINENTE, Research Center in Audiovisual Arts, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, in Argentina. Since the beginning of 2013, she is the programmer of the Experimental Video and Film Program of the Modern Art Museum, in Buenos Aires.

Mi gusto Es/My Taste IsNelly Cesar Single channel installation and performance! Performance at 7:30 pm on Opening Night

This performance consists of the artist singing a live version of the popular Mexican song in attempt to emulate her father’s rendition, which will be playing on a TV screen in front of her. In an attempt to reconstruct from memory the same tempo, rhythm, and melody, the artist uses familial love to create a dissonance that subverts its coding within a patriarchal discourse.

Nelly Cesar is a Mexican artist living between Mexico City, Puebla and Vancouver. She explores misbehaviours, perversions and love through durational performance, sculpture, drawing installation and art- writing.


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Llorando por la Marcha de la humanidad crying for the March of humanityChristian Jankowski Single Channel Video Installation

Christian Jankowski works across video, installation, photography, and the mass media formats of television and cinema. His practice is largely rooted in performance and evolves out of a collaborative process. Bestowing creative responsibility onto unsuspecting participants, he engages his collaborators as “co-authors” of his work as they perform everyday gestures. With a subtle sense of humor pervading his work, Jankowski explores the boundaries between art and commerce, challenging the notion of the transformative power of artistic creation as it seeps into popular culture. Known for his critiques of contemporary art production, his work engages both the social and the aesthetic.

Christian Jankowski gained international recognition for his work, Telemistica, for the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999. He has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, including exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and The Kitchen in New York. He was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and Performa 07


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Staying aliveXimena Cuevas Single Channel Installation

Ximena Cuevas is Mexico’s video artist extraordinaire: half magician, half mermaid, master of all she surveys. Cuevas looks upon her beloved metropolis of Mexico City with an eye both jaundiced and passionate. At the same time, she has turned her camera back on her own daily life and charted the quotidian pleasures and crises found therein. Her camera is expressive and inventive, her editing style jaunty and edgy, her musical taste unerring. Whether her subject is lesbian romance or heterosexual machismo, you couldn’t ask for a better guide.”

—B. Ruby Rich, San Francisco 1998


Cuevas is obsessed with the micro movements of daily life, with the border between truth and fiction, with the “impossibility” of reality. Her work relentlessly seeks out the layers of lies covering the everyday representations of reality and systematically explores the fictions of national identity and gender. It redefines the meaning of documentary.

Her videos have been shown in festivals such the New York Film Festival, Sundance, Berlin, and Montreal, and she was the featured artist at “Video Viewpoints” in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has been an invited speaker at numerous events, including those sponsored by the Pacific Film Archive in San Francisco, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the Guggenheim in New York, and most recently at the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Among the many grants she has received are those from the FONCA (Mexican National Endowment for Culture and the Arts), the Eastman Kodak Worldwide Independent Filmmaker Production Grant, and Rockefeller, MacArthur, and Lampiada grants. She toured Dormimundo, a documentary about the discomfort of being, as the guest artist of the Central New York Programmers Group fall tour of 2000.

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Teal Sale/aturquesadaSoJin Chun Multimedia Installation

Aturquesada is a video and sculptural installation consisting of collected objects (toys, shoes, plates, plants, etc.) painted in the colour teal, and videos of the artist, soJin Chun selling teal objects on the streets of Toronto.

These random, everyday objects transition from owner to owner and through time gather personal histories and acquire meaning. As art objects, they embody the relationship between affect and capital – while their value is determined through informal markets on the sides of the street.

SoJin Chun is a Toronto-based artist working in video and installation. Using a whimsical and humorous approach, her work explores local narratives to examine the intersections and contradictions found in cultural, social and personal identities as a result of geographic relocation, and cultural multiplicity. Chun’s

personal experience living in the Korean diaspora in Bolivia, and Canada, informs her work which reveals the idiosyncrasies found in culture, in its inconclusive and contradictory nature.

Through artist residencies in Trisc, Serbia; Kiosko Galeria in Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Casa das Caldeiras in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and The Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei, Taiwan, Chun has developed a personal style of storytelling providing a unique perspective as a Korean-born Spanish-Speaking artist. Chun has participated in video screening and exhibitions internationally including Bolivia, Brazil, Serbia, France, South Africa, Taiwan and the U.S. Her most recent accomplishments have included a solo exhibition at Tragaluz Digital in the Canary Islands, Spain as part of Fotonoviembre, a Biennale photography festival; as well as an exhibition at the Attic Gallery in the Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei, Taiwan.

Chun has a B.A. in Applied Arts from Ryerson University and a Masters in Communications and Culture from Ryerson/York Universities. Part of her art practice also involves programming and teaching educational workshops to youth, and adults within the context of community development. She is currently the Head of Education and Community Outreach at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in Toronto, Canada.


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PhoTograPhIc ExhIBITIon: My oWn SkIn/ MI ProPIa PIELBeaver Hall Gallery · 29 McCaul Street · FREE

Photographic exhibition: my Own skin/ mi Propia PielThursday, April 2, 6:00Beaver Hall Gallery • FREE

Heidi Hassan moved into the world of filmmaking trough her interest and work with still photography. Her explorations of the fixed image and her subsequent experience as a Director of Photography for cinema and television encouraged her to become also a storyteller. The aesthetics and poetics of her very personal, almost intimate, oeuvre demonstrate diverse strong levels of connection and continuity between the snapshot and the motion picture. A selection of self-portraits by the artist

expanding from 2000 to 2014 is chosen to describe the processes of her visual development and matureness, the works in progress of an artist who faces hard decisions around the questions of why and where to place the camera. As she does in many of her films, Hassan portraits her own fragmented body in diverse sceneries where reflections on women’s stories of identity politics, performativity, domestic life, gender violence, power, memories and family relations are central. Unlike her audiovisual experience, Hassan’s photographic work has not been publicly exhibited in the last 15 years. Used so far essentially as a way to workshop her films’ imagery and to deeply explore her own questions about citizenship, History and female subjectivity, these pieces will be shown for the first time in

the context of Alucine. The digital moments included in this show will hopefully encourage conversations about the relevance of understanding creative processes as routes though which cultural producers construct and represent themselves and their communities.

Heidi Hassan (Havana, 1978) is a photographer, cinematographer and film director. After obtaining a Diploma in Photography Direction at the International Film and Television School (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, she studied Film Direction at Geneva’s Superior School of Arts and Design (HEAD).

She has developed a personal ouvre with numerous collaborations as DP in short and feature fiction and documentary films. Hassan’s works have been exhibited in prestigious film festivals such as the Journée Suisse at Cannes, the Locarno Film Festival, Visions du Réel-Nyon, Clermont-Ferrand and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Her upcoming feature documentary Portrait à l’encre will be co-directed with long-term friend and collaborator Patricia Pérez. She currently lives and works between Spain and Switzerland.

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Michelle van BeusekomInterim Director General of NFB English Program DG, NFB

Michelle van Beusekom is the Interim Director Gen-eral of English-language production at the National Film Board, Canada’s public producer and distribu-tor. She oversees creative direction, operations and finances for seven production studios from coast to coast. Michelle joined the NFB in 2006 as the As-

sistant Director General of English Program. She was part of the management team that established the NFB’s first interactive production studio in 2009. In 2008, Michelle produced Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary, a feature documentary showcasing the voices of 33 of the world’s leading documentarians. She was co-conceiver and content editor for the interactive project Here At Home.

Prior to joining the NFB, Michelle worked as a Program Development Manager for CBC Television, where she developed, commissioned and acquired a wide range of programming for the network. She has also worked as a Produc-tion Executive for the Women’s Television Network and was co-programmer of Planet in Focus: Toronto International Environmental Film Festival from 2000–2002.

Michelle is a firm believer in the role and possibilities of public media. She has an MA in political science and speaks English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

canadIan /LaTIn aMErIcan FILM co-ProducTIonSSaturday, April 4th · 12:00 pm – 2:00 pmBeaver Hall GalleryBrunch Included: PWYC • $10 Suggested donation

Canada is considered one of the most proficient co-production partners, holding co-production treaties with over 55 countries, 13 in Latin America. In the past edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival, Canada brought a delegation of 12 producers with the purpose of securing partnerships with Latin American directors, producers and production companies, demonstrating Canada’s ongoing goal of partnering with the fastest growing national cinemas globally.

As part of aluCine’s mandate, and in celebration of its 15th anniversary, we are hosting a co-production panel that will introduce local filmmakers to how co-production treaties work and how to better use their resources. With a selection of guests from all sectors of the industry we hope to give participants an overview of the requisites and steps to follow for a successful co-production endeavour. We will also explore the importance of co-production markets and how projects are sold in those instances.

We will have a light Latin inspired brunch provided by Mango Pinton before the panel discussion is to commence in the Beaver Hall Gallery.

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yanik LétourneauCEO Peripheria Productions

Yanick Létourneau is the owner and cofounder of Peripheria, a production company founded 15 years ago with a mission to produce director driven stories.He is currently producing Juan Andres Arango’s upcom-ing feature “X Quinientos” in coproduction with Septima

Films (Colombia), Machete (Mexico) and Memento Films (France) to be shot this summer; “The Tides”, a collaborative coming of age feature from 5 emerging filmmakers currently in post production; Erik Cimon’s feature documenta-ry “MTL New Wave”; Zayne Akyol’s “Gulistan: Land of Roses”, a theatrical documentary in coproduction with the NFB and MitosFilm in Germany; Sophie Fortier’s “Exil au Far West” and David Bitton’s “Chessboxing: The King’s Disci-pline”. He is packaging Lula Ismail’s “Dhalinyaro” (Youth), a feature in coproduc-tion with Gilles Sandoz (France) and developing new projects such as “Passover”, Daniel Schachter’s first feature, as well as Hu Wei’s next short, “Aurora”, in copro-duction with Ama (France), who’s previous short “Butter Lamp” was nominated for an Oscar in 2015.

Lisa Valencia-SvenssonDocumentary Film Producer Lisa Valencia-Svensson is an award-winning documentary film producer based in Toronto who has been involved in the industry for over a decade. Her first feature length documen-tary was Herman’s House, which won an Emmy for Out-standing Arts & Culture Programming and was nominated

for a Canadian Screen Award: Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/ Political

Documentary. Herman’s House was broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV and on documentary channel in Canada. She associate produced sever-al films, including The World Before Her, which have garnered Emmy nomi-nations and Canadian Screen Awards, have been broadcast internationally, and been screened and won awards at festivals including TIFF, Tribeca, Hot Docs and IDFA. Her passion is for film projects which explore issues of inequality and social justice, and which encourage audiences to view their world through a constructively critical and creatively unique lens.

William Barron Deputy Director of Business Affairs and Certification - English Market, Telefilm Canada William Barron is currently Telefilm’s Deputy Director, Busi-ness Affairs – English Market where he oversees a team that receives, analyzes and contracts feature film production and

post-production projects, in addition to fielding marketing applications for both Canadian release and for international festivals.

Originally from Toronto, William grew up in Victoria B.C. and attended Camosun College before joining Ralph C. Ellis Enterprises where he rose to Sales Manager, representing such prestigious companies as Granada, ITEL, Tyne Tees, Yorkshire Television and documentary host/producer Ted Koppel. In 1992 he moved to Paragon International where he worked with Ismé Bennie and Kirs-tine Stewart, representing a diverse catalogue of programming. William joined Telefilm in 1995 and was later based in Vancouver, where he worked in all sectors of Telefilm’s investment portfolio. He returned in 2006 to Toronto to accept the position of Deputy Director, Television – English Market before taking on his current role for feature films.

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FIFTEEn yEarS oF “LaTInIdad” In canadIan MEdIa arTSBeaver Hall Gallery · 29 McCaul Street · FREE

Jorge Lozano Jorge Lozano has been working as a film and video artist for the last 20 years and has achieved national and international recognition. His fiction films have been exhibited at the Toronto Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival amongst oth-ers. His experimental work has been exhibited at many international festi-vals and galleries. He has expanded his practice to the organization of many cultural and art events, the creation of aluCine, Toronto Latin Media Festival and facilitating self-representations video workshops for marginalized Latin and non- Latin youth in Canada since 1991 Venezuela 2005 and Co-lombia 2005-2009.

Maria coatesMaria Alejandrina Coates is a Uruguayan born, Toronto based curator and writer whose interests include art practices grounded in feminist, social, and decolonial frameworks. She is co-founder of SOS curatorial collective and Curator at e-fagia visual and media arts organization. Maria received a bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia and a Masters degree in Art History and Curatorial Studies from York University. She maintains an active research and curatorial practice and currently serves as a board member for Gendai Gallery in Toronto, ON.

Fifteen years of “latinidad” in Canadian media artsSunday, April 5th · 15:00 pmBeaver Hall Gallery

As part of our 15th anniversary we will reflect more deeply on the origins and impact not only of our own local media artists productions, but also of the entire Latin Canadian film production from the past 15 years.The panel will cover topics that reflect on the last 15 years of independent media arts production by Latin Canadian artists, and will also consider the contexts for the future. In reflecting on this filmmaking/media arts history, the panel also aims to consider the framework evolution that will be needed to support Latin Canadian independent filmmaking into the future. The issue of the ongoing need for spaces for culturally specific media arts exhibition and their relevance to future generations of independent filmmakers is being explored, and this question will serve as the starting point for the discussion on this panel.

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FIFTEEn yEarS oF “LaTInIdad” In canadIan MEdIa arTS Beaver Hall Gallery · 29 McCaul Street · FREE

Julieta MariaJulieta Maria is a Toronto based new media artist with an MFA from York University. She works with a variety of media, including video, interactive video installations and web. She has participated in several international screenings and exhibitions, including Scope Basel in Switzerland in 2010, the Hemispheric Institute of Perfor-mance and Politics in Colombia in 2009, and the Interactiva Biennale in Mexico 2009, among others.

During the past few years, Julieta has worked in the field of media arts as a facilitator, teaching workshops in video production, video editing, website development and digital story telling. She has also co-curated several Internet and media exhibitions. She

During the past few years, Julieta has worked in the field of media arts as a facilitator, teaching workshops in video production, video editing, website development and digital story telling. She has also co-curated several Internet and media exhibitions. She is a co-founder of e-Fagia Visual and Media Art Organization in Toronto, where she is currently acting as the executive director.

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curaTIng and crEaTIng In ThE dIaSPoraBeaver Hall Gallery · 29 McCaul Street · FREE

Curating and Creating in the DiasporaFriday, April 3, 15:30Beaver Hall GalleryArtists & Curator’s talkArtists: Gabriela Golder, Ximena Cuevas, SoJin Chun, Nelly César Marín, Christian JankowskiCurators: Maria Alejandrina Coates, Zaira Zarza and Sinara RozoModerated by: Sinara Rozo

The participating artists bring new and recent works to an ongoing and important conversation in modern and contemporary art. Since Immanuel Kant’s “Critique of Aesthetic Judgement,” art has historically been associated with the purpose of evoking subjectivity and emotion. The type of emotion and the purpose of that emotion is a fraught terrain for contemporary art making. This exhibition will situate the discussion in the genre of media arts, as well as through perspectives of artists from developing countries and the global south (particularly Latin America and its diaspora).

She has developed a personal ouvre with numerous collaborations as DP in short and feature fiction and documentary films. Hassan’s works have been exhibited in prestigious film festivals such as the Journée Suisse at Cannes, the Locarno Film Festival, Visions du Réel-Nyon, Clermont-Ferrand and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Her upcoming feature documentary Portrait à l’encre will be codirected with long-term friend and collaborator Patricia Pérez. She currently lives and works between Spain and Switzerland.

Guests Curator: Zaira Zarza

Zaira Zarza is a Doctoral Candidate in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. She obtained a Bachelor and a Master degree in Art History at the University of Havana. She worked for several years in the Social Research Department of the Cuban Film Institute, was a monthly columnist in Cartelera de Cine y Video, edited the digital journal of the Latin American Film Foundation and hosted a section on film criticism in the TV show Nuevos Aires. She also worked as assistant curator at the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba. Ediciones ICAIC published her book Caminos del cine brasileño contemporáneo in 2010. Her current research focuses on post-2000 Cuban diasporic cinemas.

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SPEcIaL EVEnTSTheatre Direct · Beaver Hall Gallery · 29 McCaul Street · FREE

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spanish storytellingApril 4th, 1:00 pmTheatre Direct • Artscape Wychwood BarnsPresented by i-Language Kids

Reading in any home language is important for literacy development along the academic journey of any child. It is very important to encourage children and their parents to read, especially stories that are related to their cultural and language heritage. Children will enjoy several stories in a very interactive way. We will be playing games, singing songs and rhymes to reinforce vocabulary in Spanish.

Yecid Ortega is a specialist in Language and Literacies from OISE at University of Toronto

venezuela en mis venas/venezuela Through my veinsApril 11th, 6:30 pmBeaver Hall Gallery Gricel Severino

February is usually the shortest month. This time, it chose to be the cruelest month of the calendar.” An immigrant woman perceives chaos in her country through the social media network, and her body reacts to constant information, created by the many tags. “Today I got up so tormented, as usual, trying to know who I am”.

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a creative conversation about the artworks of Teresa ascencaoApril 16, 6:30 pmBeaver Hall Gallery • FreeCurated by Colectivo Toronto (ares-buzio-piller)

Teresa Ascencao is a new media and photo-based artist whose work deals with gender and sexuality constructs through unique cultural perspectives and technological approaches. Often using out-of-the-ordinary interactivity, her poetic and kitschy artworks invite audiences to rediscover gender and sexuality through peculiar folk and pop inspired artworks. Teresa will be presenting a retrospective of her work as media and visual artist and art educator.

Colectivo Toronto

Hugo Ares- Guillermina Buzio- Madi Piller

The “Creative Conversations series” offers an environment for debate allowing audiences’ access to an insider’s point of view. The intention is to offer a context where ideas, questions, and the creation process can be shared through participatory dialogues between artists, curators and the audience, offering their unique perspective on process, techniques and production.

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SPEcIaL EVEnTSBeaver Hall Gallery · 29 McCaul Street · FREE

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Toronto Arts Council is proud to support

aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival

Congratulations to aluCine on its 15th anniversary!

Rajni Perera, Visual Artist

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MISSISSAUGA LATIN FESTIVALJulio 25 & 26, 2015

Mississauga Celebration Square300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga, Ontario Canada L5B 3C1

aluCine estará presente con lo mejor del Cine Latino Americano en una programación para niños y adultos.

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Patrocinado por: Ontario Trillium Foundation

the 8 festsmall gauge film festivalFri. Jan. 29 - Sun. Jan. 31, 2016SPK Polish Combatants Hall206 Beverley St. Toronto

submission deadline Sept. 30, 2015the8fest.com

aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival www.alucinefestival.com

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