A sampler of the broad spectrum of contemporary media from the Americas, the vast continent that begins at the southern edge of the United States and ends at the South Pole, and is also an intrinsic part of the United States. This will not be a survey of regional film and media making, but rather a selection of experimental, narrative, and documentary works made by women directors and artists, including Natalia Almada, Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega, and Ximena Cuevas.

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XIMENA CUEVAS
Ximena Cuevas is a film and media artist, based in Mexico City. Her work redefines documentary, personal and experimental media, exploring the fictions of identity and gender, and has been shown at film festivals and museums such as MoMA, Guggenheim New York and Bilbao, New York Film Festival, Sundance, Berlin, Montreal, Pacific Film Archive and the Flaherty Film Seminar. This will be her first in-person presentation in Houston.

MARGARITA DE LA VEGA-HURTADO
Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado is a film scholar and curator, who began as a film critic in Bogotá, Colombia. She obtained her doctorate in American Culture (Film Studies), at the University of Michigan in 1992, and subsequently taught there for 10 years. Before moving to Houston last year, she was the Executive Director of The Flaherty/ International Film Seminars, the most important annual seminar for U.S, independent documentary and avant-garde cinema.