Zaira Zarza is an associate professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at Université de Montréal. Her research interests include the cinemas of the diaspora and the economies of film and media in Latin America and the Caribbean. As a programmer, she has worked at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Cartagena International Film Festival. She also directed the 2019 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Film Festival in Boston. Zarza published the book Caminos del cine brasileño contemporáneo (Ediciones ICAIC) in 2010 and co-curated the exhibition L’espace de plateformes (UdeM, 2023-2024).