Against All Odds: Latin American Experiences of Exile and Diaspora

is a Cuban filmmaker, curator and researcher. His curatorial work has been presented at institutions and festivals including Kassel’s documenta fifteen, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), e-flux Screening Room, Barcelona’s MACBA and CCCB, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Casa de América, Cineteca de Madrid, Punto de Vista Film Festival, Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona and the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo. Ferrera is also co-editor of the independent film journal ‘Fantasma Material’.

is an Ecuadorian filmmaker, archivist and researcher. She holds a bachelor’s degree in audiovisual directing from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Cuba, a master’s degree in visual studies from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito and she has also trained in audiovisual conservation, preservation and restoration at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE) in Donostia/San Sebastián. Her practice lies at the intersection of cinema, archives and research, focusing on audiovisual memory, genealogies of women’s filmmaking and the preservation and recirculation of audiovisual archives. Larrea Galarza is currently developing a project on the work of the Ecuadorian filmmaker Mónica Vásquez.

is coordinator of the Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in film, both from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Brazil. He is the curator of the film preservation section of the Mostra de Cinema de Ouro Preto film festival and coordinator of the Preservation Working Group of the Fórum de Tiradentes (2024–2026). Quental previously served as technical coordinator of the association Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Archivos de Imágenes en Movimiento (CLAIM, 2020 –2023), as chargé de cours in the film department at the Université Paris 8 (2016/17) and was a member of the Brazilian National Committee of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program (from 2011 to 2015).