In this episode, Dr. Shilyh Warren, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and affiliate faculty of the Ackerman Center, and Dr. Paula Cuellar Cuellar, Assistant Professor of History and Fellow of the Jacqueline and Michael Wald Professorship at the Bass School, host UK-based filmmaker and researcher Lorena Cervera, whose documentary work has opened essential paths to understanding gender inequalities, the precarization of education, and the transformative power of art in Latin America. Her first book, A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary, is just out with Routledge Press. 

This episode was recorded just a few days before November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Lorena’s work deeply resonates with this day. Her documentaries portray the bodies and lives of women who have not only been victims of structural violence but have also resisted, created, organized, and built memory. The episode explores Lorena’s work and discusses the ways documentary cinema can contribute to transforming lives and imagining more just futures.