[Filmfestivalresearch] Programming Migration Film: A Conversation with Lucila Moctezuma – 22 February 202

[Rachel Johnson]

Dear friends, colleagues and collaborators


We are delighted to invite you to the next event in the New Voices in Cinephilia series: Programming Migration Film: A Conversation with Lucila Moctezuma (Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia).


Lucila, a renowned film-maker, educator, curator (and member of the documentary programming committee for FICM), will be joined in conversation by Dr Bianca Pires, documentary film festival researcher and sociologist at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico, and Dr Rachel Johnson, researcher of film festivals and migration cinema at the University of Leeds. Focusing on Mexican film festivals and film culture, Lucila, Bianca and Rachel will be discussing the ethical questions that curating films about displacement asks us - from foregrounding sometimes associated with migration cinema. The conversation will be followed by an open discussion, in which all attendees are warmly invited to join.


The event will take place on Wednesday 22 February at 4-5pm GMT, on Zoom. To reserve a place and ensure you receive the Zoom details, please sign up via our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/programming-migration-film-a-conversation-with-lucila-moctezuma-tickets-510903725797


This event is hosted jointly by the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds and the Film Festival Research Network seminar series.


New Voices in Cinephilia is an event series led by University of Leeds researchers Rachel Johnson and Stephanie Dennison that will bring together academics, PGRs and industry practitioners to scope recent developments in inclusive and decolonising film cultures expressed in new practices of film production, curation and criticism. It is generously supported by the Key Topics in Research Fund (School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds).


If you have any questions about registering for the event, please contact the NVC Project Officer, Clarissa Guarini (mlcg at leeds.ac.uk).


With best wishes from Leeds and Mexico


Rachel, Steph, Lucila and Bianca