Harvard Film Archive Film Screening: EAMI

Date: 

Friday, December 2, 2022, 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

Speaker: Paz Encina, Filmmaker and 2022-23 Radcliffe/Film Study Center Fellow

AEMI is Directed by Paz Encina | Paraguay/Argentina/Mexico/Germany/Netherlands/France/US, 2022, DCP, color, 75 min. Ayoreo, Guaraní and Spanish with English subtitles.

Encina’s latest film EAMI is a moving and sensitive portrait of the indigenous Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, among the last tribes living in isolation in the Amazon but now threatened by rampant and illegal deforestation of their ancestral lands. Encina will be joined in conversation with AFVS Visiting Professor in Film, Dominga Sotomayor, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Visiting Scholar Cecilia Barrionuevo and HFA Director Haden Guest.

Paz Encina resides in Paraguay, her country of origin. She is a member of the Academia Paraguaya de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, Documentalistas del Paraguay, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She has worked in different languages: video art; video installations; 8 mm, 16 mm, and 35 mm film; and digital format. Much of her work in short films, feature films, and installations is dedicated to the search for memory. Throughout her career, Encina has received such awards as the Prince Claus Award, the FIPRESCI Prize at the Festival de Cannes, and the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She has also exhibited her work at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, and the Texo Foundation, in Asunción.

Presented in collaboration with Harvard Film Archive