Indian-creek and Cliffside
Threatened Heritage: Bears Ears, Chaco, and Beyond
When: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | 9:30am - 5:45pm
Where: The Italian Academy | 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Amalia Isabel Córdova is a digital curator for New and Emerging Media at the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. She co-curates the Smithsonian Recovering Voices Mother Tongue Film Festival and co-curated the 2017 Smithsonian Folklife program On the Move: Migration Across Generations. She previously developed Latin American programs at the Film + Video Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, that presented the Native American Film + Video Festival. She is an advisor to the Berlinale’s NATIVe program and long-time collaborator of the Coordinator of Latin American Indigenous Peoples’ Film and Communication (CLACPI). Her research focuses on the circulation and preservation of Indigenous Cinemas, and has been featured in publications such as New Documentaries in Latin America (2014),Film Festival Yearbook 4: Film Festivals and Activism (2012) and Global Indigenous Media (2008). She holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies and an M.A. in Performance Studies, both from New York University. She is from Santiago de Chile/Wallmapu.