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Rebels and visionaries
yf n this issue, Angles celebrates the vibrant, diverse body of work being made by Latin American women. The film and videomakers featured represent several countries and examine a wide range of political, ethnic and cultural concerns.
These resolute women are the kind of transgressors and free-spirits Argentine director Maria Luisa Bemberg loves to portray in her films. She’s broken a few rules herself. In an Angles interview, she explains why individual liberty is one of her favorite themes. Also in this issue, Lita Stantic talks about a painful period in Argentina’s history; Marianne Fyde reports on the obstacles she had to overcome to make a film about political violence in Peru; Guita Schyfter explores the lives of Mexican Jews; and Dana Rotberg takes an apocalyptic look at Mexico City.
In a report on Cuba’s Festival del Nuevo Cine Latino Americano, Dalida Maria Benfield writes about the influence of Latin America film and video on social movements. Examples include Grupo Proceso, a Chilean media collective that creates work focusing on youth, the environment and women’s issues, and the exciting, experimental works of students at Cuba’s Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television. Benfield, who is the program director of Chicago’s Women in the Director’s Chair, brought several of these works to its 1994 festival.
Like novelist/screenwriter Laura Esquivel, whose personal essay appears in Postscript, these film and videomakers bring women’s experiences and observations to what primarily has been a macho tradition. While they come from varied backgrounds with different concerns, they share a commitment to speaking their minds and the willingness to take risks with content and style. And by changing the angle of the camera, they change the way we look at their worlds.
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Editor ELFRIEDA M. ABBE
Associate Editor GRETCHEN ELSNER-SOMMER
Regional Editors: Jill Petzall, St. Louis; Harriet Robbins, Los Angeles.
Copy Editor: Dan Sargeant. Editorial Assistant: Tanzy Falck. Contributors: Dalida Maria Benfield, Laura Esquivel, Kathryn Presner, Jorge Rufinelli, Lauri Tanner. Cover Design: Jane Kremsreiter.
Advisory Board: Lorna Johnson; Jeanne Kracher, Women in the Director’s Chair; Portia Cobb, filmmaker and Community Media Project; Jackie Tshaka, Black Programming
Consortium.
Angles recognizes the innovative and important contribution women have made and continue to make in the field of film and video. We are committed to bringing readers information and news about the diverse body of work being created by women from all ethnic, cultural and socio/ economic backgrounds.
ANGLES, Volume 2, Number 3. © 1994. Angles is published by Angles, Inc., a non-profit corporation, and is listed in the Film Literature Index. Send subscriptions, editorial business or manuscripts (with a self-addressed stamped envelope) to: Angles, P.O. Box 11916, Milwaukee, WI 53211. Phone/fax: 414/963-8951.
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