Abstract
The Escuela de Cine Amazónico (ECA), founded in Pucallpa, Peru in 2013, is an organization dedicated to audiovisual training, production, and dissemination of an activist cinema produced by Amazonian peoples themselves. As such, the ECA addresses the problems that affect the rainforest from a perspective situated in and fundamentally directed toward audiences from this region. Through analyzing ECA’s training, production, and circulation processes, as well as two short films produced by their members, this chapter proposes an understanding of this activist approach, both on- and off-screen, as a way of constructing micropolitical spheres for reflection and for building senses of community through film.
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Arteaga, C. (2020). “Toward a Cinema for Life”: The Activism of the Escuela de Cine Amazónico. In: Vich, C., Barrow, S. (eds) Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52512-5_16
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