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Transnational Cinema Solidarity shortlisted for Best First Monograph Award British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS)
I’m a recipient of the 2025 ACLS Project Development Grant (American Council of Learned Societies). Read more about my book project The Cinema to Come.
In December 2025, I presented the paper “Raúl Ruíz at the House of Culture in Le Havre: Archives of Labor and Modes of Production” and had a book launch for Transnational Cinema Solidarity during the “Moving Media in the Americas” conference at Tulane University.
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In November 2025, I introduced a screening of El realismo socialista (Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento, 1973/2023)and participated in a round panel at Filmoteca Catanlunya in the context of their retrospective “La llei del gènere: Valeria Sarmiento/Raúl Ruiz,” curated by Érik Bullot.
Register for a virtual book conversation on 11/14 at 11am PT. Organized by SCMS’Transnational Cinemas SIG, Activist and Revolutionary Film and Media SIG, and the Latinx/a/o Caucus.
Join us in person at Cal State U. Long Beach for a book launch on 11/6 at 5pm.
Listen to episode #97 of the “Conversations in Atlantic Theory” Podcast where I talk about Transnational Cinema Solidarity
Book talk at the University of California, Irvine on October 14 at 4pm
Book talk at Facultad de Comunicación e Imagen, Universidad de Chile (Santiago, Chile)on July 9, 2025.
In April 2025, I presented the paper “Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Exile, Tricontinentalism, and World Cinema Otherwise” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference in Chicago.
In November 2024, I presented the paper “World Cinema Otherwise: Exile, Solidarity, Transnationalism” at the Global Cinema Symposium (University of Texas at Dallas).
Shortlisted books for Best First Monograph Awards, BAFTSS.
Filmoteca Catalunya, November 2025
Book launch at CSULB, November 2025