This year’s Morelia Intl. Film Festival (FICM), with support from a FilmWatch scholarship awarded by the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will host a Mexican Indigenous Filmmakers: Identity and New Narratives forum for women directors.
Issues such as diversity, identity, gender equity, inclusion and broader topics such as the challenges of film production, perspective, theme and narrative forms will be discussed over the forum’s two-day program, running Oct 22 and 23.
The forum also received support from the Metropolitan Autonomous University Cuajimalpa Unit and the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Imcine).
Each morning will kick off with conversations dedicated to analysis and collective reflection, followed by afternoon exhibitions of relevant work from or about indigenous peoples, attended by the filmmakers.
We want to encourage reflection on what it means to be an indigenous filmmaker today in Mexico, said event coordinator and screenwriter Marina Stavenhagen. What are the stories they tell? What access do they have to the means of production, to the screens, to the public? What is their role as creative women in the context of their community?
We have invited contemporary filmmakers who work in close contact with their communities, and whose cinematographic proposals have to do with those worlds. They are women with distinct voices whose works demonstrate a clear intention, she added.
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