This week, the short film that Gonzalo Escobar Mora made in Chicago during the first lockdown, screens in BOGOSHORTS, Colombia’s largest short film festival and market.
Festival Website: https://festival.bogoshorts.com
Emma Rozanski and Gonzalo Escobar Mora develop new Colombian feature film project with Torino Film Lab →
Emma Rozanski and Gonzalo Escobar Mora have been selected to participate in the Torino Film Lab NEXT script development workshops in Sep/Oct with Colombian-set Spanish-language feature film EL VAQUERO.
More information about the workshops and a list of the selected projects can be found here: http://www.torinofilmlab.it/training/tfl-extended-2/tfl-next/tfl-next/35-tfl-next-film-development
Torino Film Lab: http://www.torinofilmlab.it/
Gonzalo Escobar Mora's 'Social Economies' to play at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago Sat Feb 1st 8pm →
Next Sat the 1st of February at 8pm, Gonzalo Escobar Mora’s latest film, ‘Social Economies’, plays at the famous Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago as part of the annual Panorama LatinX Festival.
Gonzalo will be there in person for the Q&A along with the other directors.
Synopsis:
SOCIAL ECONOMIES
2019, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Colombia 22:00 min.
A bag of used clothes. Three women. Their longings, uncertainties, fictions, and realities.
PANORAMA LATINX SHORT FILM SHOWCASE
Filmmakers in person!
The Gene Siskel Film Center’s Panorama Latinx programming and outreach initiative is pleased to announce the second edition of our short film showcase. This year’s edition introduces the works of Chicago-based filmmakers representing Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Addressing the complexities of our time through different genres and methods of storytelling, the films guide us over the nuances of identity and collectivity in the 21st century. From ecology to social dynamics, the directors present a manifold of practices that point to the relevance of imagination in today’s world. In Spanish and English with English subtitles. DCP and ProRes digital.
THIS YEAR'S JURY
Marcela Fuentes: Associate Professor at Northwestern University and author of Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America
Alan Medina: Co-founder of filmfront and Inga.
Marina Resende: artist, researcher and critic for Hyperallergic and THE SEEN, among others.
Directors Carol Bedoy, Sol y Chaski, Sofia Alfaro, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Nat Pyper, Milton Guillén, Gustavo Jardim are scheduled to appear for audience discussion
Gonzalo Escobar Mora to attend The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar 2019 →
Gonzalo Escobar Mora has been invited to attend The 65th 2019 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, to be held JUNE 15 – 21 at the COLGATE UNIVERSITY, HAMILTON, NY
He will be representing Bistrik7 there, along with several curatorial and film projects that he is developing with his production company and in collaboration with Bistrik7.
ABOUT THE FLAHERTY
The Flaherty is a nonprofit media arts institution recognized as a leader in its support of the documentary and other independent film and video.
Festival Statement: We are artists in action. We combat demagogues who oppose our notions of freedom and justice. In this era of uncertainty, we rebel against the lies and navigate what to accept or reject, what to learn or unlearn. We find solidarity in small local communities, and together we act creatively, speak out, and make works that challenge the status quo.
At the 65th Robert Flaherty Seminar we unite as an international community of artists—thinkers, makers, and activists—all in action. We discover and experience moments of beauty, truth, anarchy and conflict through film, as well as painting, performance, photography, text, and sound. We encounter the craftsmanship of those who are not afraid to battle deep, ethical questions, and whose actions split form and convention wide open. With careful attention to the process of making—the construction of sensuous textures and mythical imagery, the patterning of resistance and repetition, and the uses of performative interventions and idiosyncratic storytelling—we learn how to create powerful moments of aesthetic and political liberation.
While inhabiting the everyday practice of making, doing, living, suffering and protesting as artists today, we take inspiration from the poetics of the human condition, and step into a new terrain. In discourse, thought, and experience, we come together as a community in action to bear witness and shape our future.