Locarno’s Open Doors: New Films from Paz Fabrega, Victor Checa, Aeden O’Connor as a Revolution Builds in Latin American Filmmaking
variety.comOpen Doors is a case in point. Five takeaways on this year’s lineup: Recalibration of a Sense of Self “Three Bullets,” at Open Doors Projects Hub, is made by Dominican Génesis Valenzuela, an alum of San Sebastian’s prestigious Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, which plumbs the murder of Dominican immigrant Lucrecia Pérez, shot and killed by four neo-Nazis, the same year that Spain celebrated its conquest of Latin America.
Valenzuela will come in at the film as she reconstructs her own identity as a “human being/woman/Afro-Caribbean/filmmaker.” “The driving force of this film is the desire for emancipation, both from the constraints of existence and from those of filmmaking,” she has said. Questioning Cliches, Intertwining Narratives That could be said to varying degrees and multiple ways of the titles at Open Doors, all from smaller Latin American countries or the Caribbean. “LOA.
Kill Your Masters” tells the history of Haiti’s 1791-1804 Revolution, but from the POV of Afro-Caribbean female Vodun empowerment.
In Jamaican Gibrey Allen’s “Raised by Goats,” as Jamaica battles for independence, a woman struggles towards freedom and self knowledge.
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