Media Industries, Global Perspectives
# Latin America

10 January 2020, 14.00-15.30

ICON visiting scholar Fernanda Peñaloza (Senior Lecturer in Latin America Studies at University of Sydney) and Nadia Lie (Prof. of Hispanic Film and Literature at KU Leuven) will talk about their current research on Latin American Cinema and subsequently discuss transnationalism in their work.
Discussant:        Marijke de Valck (UU)
Moderator:         Reindert Dhondt (UU)

Southern Cinemascapes: Circulation of Latin American cinema in Australia
by Fernanda Peñaloza

Peñaloza’s presentation offers an overview of her main research project, Southern Cinemascapes, which is an in-depth analysis of Latin American Cinema circulation in Australia. It draws from recent developments in the field of Film Festival Studies, which increasingly interrogate the dominance of the North-South axis in film circulation.  The research focuses on audience experiences as well as on film selection and programming at Australian Latin American film festivals and other film exhibition events (commercial releases, the screening of Latin American films at the Sydney Film Festival, Mardi Gras Film Festival, and Antenna Film Festival). She will show how study of these cultural spaces is essential to further our understanding of the transnational forces that traverse contemporary ‘world cinemas’.

Plotting transnationalism: tourist encounters in Latin American festival films
by Nadia Lie

The study of Latin American cinema from the perspective of transnationalism has led to a new interest in the funding mechanisms of films, the role of genres, new aesthetics as well as the rise of the new discipline of festival studies. In this talk, Lie will address an understudied dimension in this field: the way transnationalism affects plots and stories. More concretely, she will interrogate which role tourists play as recurrent figures in contemporary transnational films from Latin America, drawing on Tiempo Compartido / Time Share by Sabastián Hofmann for examples.