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I wouldn’t start by remembering that in

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the seven extent very active group of

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filmmakers that came from Sheila exile

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living in Montreal creating coops and

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bringing the politics of memory into the

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mainstream be our filmmaking in the late

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eighties artists of color as we call

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ourselves have started to organize

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around that time we organized a

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conference called shooting the system

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this conference was instrumental in

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changing the representation of people

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who call our own levels in the Canadian

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cultural landscape which was mostly

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Anglo at that time a lot of the old

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folks is fresher entertainers also there

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was the cinema in the corner where were

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mostly independent shown a video

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exhibition were happening at the time so

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for sarees of this latin gay community

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connected with all this festival so a

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lot of device from the festival will

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happen in this club’s video and perhaps

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too great and huge in 16 and they’re

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here we are with a whole bunch of

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friends they were all making sure during

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that time I started with another Russell

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to program events for about a year

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perhaps a little bit longer with no

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funding at a venezuelan restaurant on

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ossington in college and see Nana was

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instrumental in expanding the which

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doing so al cine with her dedication

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creativity and incredible capacity to

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create networks right from the beginning

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my position with what was to become the

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festival which it was called gusano from

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dennis.watson borders at the beginning

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and then later on at the scene it was

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political you know

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so much about the Annunciation but

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there’s a lot of politics and the stakes

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of the work that are really important he

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becomes very political more political

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the talking about politics and summer

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starting to see all we got a native from

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the Canada Council 10 e knows that we

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have been selected as an organization

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because outstanding work that we done in

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blah blah so say okay let’s do this

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festival again and people were asking a

2:31

lot to do the festival again because it

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really there was not like a hole in them

2:35

somewhere the isolation and exclusion

2:37

present in our immigrant experience has

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taught us to be aware the needs of all

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the immigrants Allison I became a rescue

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mission not only of the films made in

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that in America but of immigrant artists

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here who were lost in a sea of

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exclusions no significant a

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sub-directory a community-based event it

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was the two of us but we always had a

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yacht in some allies and I no visa

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people who are supporting in a way

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around order I think it has been at the

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essence of all the incarnations of

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Abyssinian and brushing board and they

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need to eat connect to the order that

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that sense of community also fuels you

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to be able to produce work is something

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that alison has kind of taught the

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research wrong and when people do it the

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way else and doesn’t it works out really

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well that is really what I am really

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very important about how we move defend

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on how we how the world’s get smaller

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and we become more and more powerful of

3:44

the many strange an alien culture that’s

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how the audience’s I’ve seen is like

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that little flame that numbs a torch is

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still still there

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and that’s that’s the heart of a losing

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and that’s how it started and that’s how

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I think why it is different there’s

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diverse ways of doing things and there

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are diverse voices that need to be

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representative there is innately the

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community people one system of to happen

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and they’re willing to do anything just

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to make it happen so when talking about

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culturally specific avenues for

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production and display in Canada it’s

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not so easy to demarcate identity groups

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with standardized labels that are meant

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to contain these specific definitions we

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need to survive and we need to sell so

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we cannot be only spare amantha and that

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was all these things that the the

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failure to American audiences can’t

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connect to dancing at all when you only

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when you they don’t understand they

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don’t understand experimental omnia I

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know a lot of friends that I get

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involved at T nothing here in fiction of

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better films but they don’t have a place

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to show their movies so what happened

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now with the new ones what happened

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within the generations so and we’re

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still here and we work with with

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experimental work because we have this

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platform so are we really going to look

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at it this is space they need to

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continue being like school so it’s in

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another one is due to fit in Norwich the

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community and get people to Native

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community to to create more orcs in

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creating using I think always know

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I seems really happy to see how every

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generation of Latino Americans who are

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established in this city and this

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country will also be the nursing the

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other Latin America’s were arriving in

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DC di english comp the journey start

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again and again for a different

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perspective and a personal perspective

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though los dos entire started their Diaz

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Peralta exile by some sake a

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never-ending carbonell there is an

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essential need for these spaces for

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these categories both from the side of

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funding agencies as well as

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organizations that are set up to promote

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11 artists and to create evidence of

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display further work one of the

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Commission every year worse up my heart

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is that all the artists that come from

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outside they feel it and if it’s so

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welcome and they amazed about how you

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know professional is how well believe or

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how organized everything and the quality

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of the words and how we present the

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words you can see these and how to

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maximize our resources we do this with

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very little value but we do it well I

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think that what lies ahead for a lot of

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of us is creating the capacity for

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bringing people together and negotiating

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the politics of identity that are made

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visible when these events are put

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together and these artworks are

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displayed the label of Latin America

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used to conjure up a fixed idea of the

6:52

other via there were presentation of

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local histories and tradition fails to

6:57

account for the multiplicity of subjects

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and experiences that appear due to the

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romanization it’s always that idea of

7:04

the daughter profiling its own in some

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terms you want

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as the other in electrons you go okay

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don’t treat me like that it’s salty

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instead the term is activated now to

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include an overlapping and country in

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overlapping in contradicting ways the

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very variety of cultures people

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languages both from within and without

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the geographical borders that the ones

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can take there’s a real fun road to

7:34

walking into the industry when you as an

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American filmmaker want to go that way

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because there’s a lot we learn in that

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experience about ourselves also and

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there’s a lot that you bring about yours

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about your own identity by about your

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own wiggle your move your own

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sensibility we’re not trying to just be

8:02

a festival for Latin American audiences

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I’m trying to expand that out instead

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was never part of it because didn’t get

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it so by educating this community we get

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we get a lot more support we get more i

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will say acceptance in others here comes

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up we were there before and then we need

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so it’s also social strategy to

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diversify audiences

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