As part of THE NFB IN LIBRARIES programming, the North Vancouver City Library will present nine short films by various Latina-Canadian filmmakers to highlight Latin American Heritage Month.

To celebrate Latin American Heritage Month in October, this program shines the spotlight on the contemporary work of Latina-Canadian filmmakers. Although Latin-American women have been making films at the NFB since the mid-1970s (e.g., Chilean-born pioneer Marilú Mallet), it wasn’t until the last decade that a new wave of Latina-Canadian cinema emerged at the National Film Board of Canada. More specifically, the filmmakers whose work is discussed in this blog post identify as women and are either first-generation Canadians or were born in a Latin-American country (Costa Rica, Brazil, Venezuela, etc.). Most importantly, most of them recently directed an NFB-produced film.

NFB’s Collection Curator, Camilo Martin-Florez, will be presenting the screening.

Here is the list of films included in the program (65 min):

My World, Your Melody (2024) by Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes [1 min]

Hothouse 13: Lo 100to (2022) by Karla Monterrosa [1 min]

Alambic: Modern Alchemy (2022) by Bren Lopez Zepeda [2 min]

Alambic: Solid Ground (2022) by Beatriz Carvalho [2 min]

A song for Cuba (2014) by Tamara Segura [7 min]

As Night Descends (2020) by Nadine Gomez [10 min]

Saturday Night (2021) by Rosana Matecki [15 min]

Child of the Andes (1988) by Marilú Mallet [27 min]

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FREE SCREENING
To have more information on this event and to register for this screening, visit the library’s webpage.