Experimental Cinema in Times of Protest: IV Cámara Lúcida Libertad Gills January 2020 Festival Reports Cámara Lúcida began in 2016 as a small gathering of friends in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador’s third most important city after Quito and Guayaquil. At the time, Francisco Álvarez, its founder and director, was a ...
Notes on DOCUMENTAMADRID, the 14th Madrid International Documentary Film Festival Libertad Gills June 2017 Festival Reports The 14th Madrid International Documentary Film Festival was held in Matadero, a former slaughterhouse and livestock market built between 1908 and 1928, and commissioned by the Madrid City Council to the archite...
A Place for Underground Cinema Made in Ecuador: Notes from the Festival Ecuador Bajo Tierra II and Ronda de Negocios de DVD, Manta City Libertad Gills June 2013 Festival Reports In January 2013 I flew to Manta, the largest fishing port in Ecuador, to attend the second annual Festival Ecuador Bajo Tierra. As its title suggests, it is a festival for Ecuadorian underground films, held in ...
“If Ecuador is the name of an imaginary line….”: The 8th Festival de Cine Cero Latitud Libertad Gills December 2010 Festival Reports In most parts of Quito, Ecuador, the fact that you make, study or are passionate about cinema can only be understood as a hobby, a recreation, a pasttime. When I opened my bank account, for instance, the clerk ...
