Small Cinemas of the Andes

Diana Coryat is a media educator and practitioner affiliated with Mendocino College in California and Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Ecuador. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Christian Leon is a professor at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Ecuador and a visiting professor at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) (Ecuador). He holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences at Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Noah Zweig is a research professor affiliated with Arizona State University Online and  Universidad Internacional del Ecuador. He holds a Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

1. Introduction: Theorizing and Contextualizing Small(er) Cinemas of the Andes. Diana Coryat, Christian León and Noah Zweig.- Part I. Filming Smaller Nations.- 2. Filming the Andes: Contemporary Aesthetic Configurations of the Andean World (Peru). Karolina Romero.- 3. Technological Appropriation and Audiovisual Sovereignty in an Indigenous Key (Colombia). Pablo Mora Calderón.- 4. Indigenous Audiovisual Producers of Ecuador: An Integral Practice of "Cosmovivencia" (Ecuador). Eliana Champutiz.- 5. Indigenous Audiovisual Practices, Post-National Discourses and the Poetics of the Small (Ecuador). Christian León.- 6. Audiovisual Practices and Production of the Commons (Peru). Luz Estrello and Julio César Gonzales (Colectivo Maizal).- Part II. Images of the Small Community.- 7. Recovering One's Own Voice to Redefine What is Visible, Desirable and Possible: La Escuela Audiovisual Al Borde. Ana Lucia Ramírez Mateus  (Colombia).- 8. Ojo Semilla: Weaving Feminisms Through CommunityCinema (Ecuador). Diana Coryat, Carolina Dorado Lozano and Karla Valeri Morales Aguayo.- 9. From the Festival-As-Event to the Festival-As-Process: A Journey Through Community Film Festivals in Colombia (Colombia). Natalia López Cerquera.- 10. Eco-Territorial Cinema: An Intercultural, Translocal, and Expanded Community Process (Ecuador). Yadis Vanessa Vanegas Toala.- 11. Notes Towards a History of Amateur Filmmaking in Guayaquil (Ecuador). Libertad Gills.-  12. Ay de mi que ardiendo, ...¡puedo!. An Extensive Note on María Galindo's Bastard Cinema (Bolivia). Viola Varotto.- Part III. Guerrilla, Regional and Peripheral Cinema.- 13. Rethinking Subaltern "Modernities:" El cine chonero popular, 1994-2015. (Ecuador).Noah Zweig.- 14. Regional Peruvian Cinema (Peru). Emilio Bustamante and Jaime Luna Victoria.- 15. Minor Cinemas, Major Issues: Horror Films and the Traces of the Internal Armed Conflict in Peru  (Peru) Diana Cuéllar Ledesma.- 16. Popular Digital Colombian Cinema: Expressions from and about Violence. (Colombia). Luisa F. González Valencia.- 17. Images of Difference in Bolivian Cinema (Bolivia). Sergio Zapata.