TropiChat 20: Natalia Almada
Moderated by Carlos A. Gutiérrez, Cinema Tropical
Wednesday, May 12, 7pm EDT
Facebook Live
Recipient of the 2012 MacArthur “Genius” Award, Natalia Almada combines artistic expression with social inquiry to make films that are both personal reflections and critical social commentaries. Her work straddles the boundaries of documentary, fiction, and experimental film. Her most recent film Users had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Directing Award U..S. Documentary. Her previous film Todo lo demás / Everything Else is a narrative feature starring Academy Award-nominated Adriana Barraza; it premiered at the New York Film Festival and was nominated for a Mexican Academy Award.
El Velador premiered at the 2011 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and broadcast on the award-winning PBS program POV, along with her other two feature documentaries Al Otro Lado and El General. Almada’s short film All Water Has a Perfect Memory premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and received the Best Documentary Short award at the Tribeca Film Festival. Almada was the recipient of the 2009 Best Documentary Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, USA Artists, The Herb Alpert Foundation, and MacDowell Colony. Almada graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives between Mexico City and San Francisco.
TropiChat 20 is a special series of twenty weekly conversations with key Latin American and U.S. Latinx directors and film professionals, presented on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Cinema Tropical.
Co-presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University (CLACS); powered by Pirotecnia Films.
Special thanks to Irazú Sánchez Villalobos, Manu Guerrero, and Juan Pedro Agurcia.
