Author Jay Beck & Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo

Jay Beck & Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo

Jay Beck is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Carleton College. He is the author of Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema (2016) and co-editor of Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound (2008) and Contemporary Spanish cinema and genre (2008). He was co-editor of Music, Sound and the Moving Image (2012-2021) and currently serves on the editorial boards of MSMI, Tecmerin, and Film Criticism. Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo is a Chilean-American documentary filmmaker, artist, and educator based in Northfield, Minnesota. Her films are distributed by Women Make Movies and have shown at MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, L’Alternativa, Arsenale, InVideo, Melbourne Latin American Film Festival, Puerto Vallarta International Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Documentales de Santiago, Cine las Américas, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Athens International Film Festival, Tucson Underground Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Miami International Film Festival, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, and the Frozen River Film Festival. She teaches in the Cinema and Media Studies Department at Carleton College.

Forging Fiction from Reality: The Films of Alejo Moguillansky

Jay Beck & Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo

August 2024

22 Years of El Pampero Cine

"We artists are irresponsible people." – Maxim Gorky to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, c. 1907-08 As a core member of El Pampero Cine, Alejo Moguillansky was initially known as the team’s editor who was sought-af...