Archives and Digital Resources (National Film Archives, Museums, Websites, Podcasts, and Streaming Platforms)
Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken
This institution oversees the preservation of Argentina’s audiovisual heritage. They are also responsible for Nitrato Argentino, a project for the restoration and digitization of their nitrate film collection. Their website offers free downloads of over 500 stills and digital copies of moving images.
Lumiton
The Museum is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Lumiton Studios, one of Argentina’s earliest cinema production companies. It features a collection of films, photographs, and media resources. The museum’s website includes a digitized archive of documents and offers a free film streaming platform.
Cine Nacional
Online Argentine Cinema Database.
Cine.ar
A platform for watching Argentine movies and series.
Cinemateca Brasileira
It is the institution responsible for preserving Brazilian audiovisual production, housing a large collection of documents, including books, magazines, original scripts, photographs, and posters. The database can be accessed online through its website.
Banco de Conteúdos Culturais
Created in 2006, BNDigital gives access to a digital collection of Brazilian cinemas.
Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, Brazil
The Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo offers a series of online courses and conversations related to audiovisual culture.
Fundação Getulio Vargas
Although restricted to upper-class families, this academic institution has a very important collection of amateur and domestic films.
Cineteca Nacional de Chile
The Archive of the Cineteca Nacional de Chile makes information about its collection of films, audiovisuals, and documentaries available online for consultation by researchers, filmmakers, students, and the public.
Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano
A project for the preservation and conservation of important audiovisual material for Colombia. On the website, there is a film database, online publications, and access to a podcast series with 23 episodes on various topics related to Colombian cinema.
Centro Costarricense de Producción Cinematográfica
This institution produces the Podcast: “Cine y Memoria: Historia del cine costarricense.”
Central American and Mexican Video Archive Project
The Archivo Mesoamericano is a digital archive of annotated historical and ethnographic video material created in collaboration with the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico, the Institute of History of Nicaragua and Central America (IHNCA), and the Museum of the Word and the Image (MUPI) in El Salvador. Dating from 1974 to 2007, the archive includes material on human rights, political violence, youth movements, guerrilla media, and the heritage of Indigenous peoples in the region.
Cubacine
Official Website of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC).
ENDAC (Enciclopedia Digital del Audiovisual Cubano)
Created by Juan Antonio García Borrero, ENDAC is an online platform that provides access to knowledge about Cuban cinema, including the production, distribution, and consumption of moving images. It also features works by Cubans abroad, films shot in Cuba by foreign filmmakers, and information on silent and pre-revolutionary sound films.
Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador
It is the institution in charge of preserving Ecuador’s audiovisual production. A database with information on films as well as online publications can be accessed through its website. Many films can also be viewed on its YouTube channel.
Cinemateca Digital del Ecuador
The Union of Audiovisual Workers has created this multimedia platform. The most representative films of Ecuador can be viewed online free of charge. Documents, historical data and multimedia narratives are linked to each film.
Cineteca Nacional de México
It is the institution responsible for the preservation of the audiovisual production of Mexico. Its website provides access to a database of film information and online publications.
Nuestro Cine MX
The free streaming platform of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography.
Filmoteca de la UNAM
This website offers free online streaming of more than a hundred Mexican films.
Filmografía Mexicana
It is a general database dedicated to the Mexican Cinema produced in Mexico.
Asociación Nicaragüense de Cinematografía (ANCI)
Resources related to the audiovisual culture of Nicaragua.
Cineaparte
Peruvian Digital Film Library.
Cine Nuestro
Resources on Puerto Rican cinema.
Biblioteca Digital lCNAC (Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía)
Resources on the audiovisual culture of Venezuela.
Cinemateca Uruguaya
It is the institution in charge of preserving the Uruguayan audiovisual production.
Cine uruguayo en YouTube
The Film and Audiovisual Agency of Uruguay offers access to more than 80 films and series made by Uruguayans.
LatAm Cinema
Website with information on current film productions in the region. They have an online Guide to Latin American Film Commissions, a comprehensive directory with updated information for each country.
Mapa del Cine de Latinoamérica y el Caribe
The Valdivia International Film Festival in Chile invited 250 academics and curators to reshape the map of Latin American and Caribbean cinema. Daily, they share film lists from various specialists on Instagram, culminating in a final “new map” to be unveiled at the festival.
Retina
Retina Latina is an online platform curated by professionals from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, offering a diverse selection of Latin American films for free and without registration for citizens of Latin America and the Caribbean. It also features reviews, interviews, articles, and podcasts about Latin American cinema, accessible to users worldwide.
Cinecorto
Online platform for watching short films.
Professional Associations, Networks, and Research Projects
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
The Transnational Cinemas Interest Group YouTube channel provides access to conferences and workshops.
Sepancine (Seminario Permanente de Análisis Cinematográfico)
The Mexican Association of Film Studies was one of Latin America’s first professional film associations. It organizes congresses, publications, and screenings.
SOCINE (Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual)
Founded in 1996, the Brazilian Association for the Study of Cinemas promotes the organization of academic conferences and online workshops and publishes an academic journal.
AsAECA (Asociación Argentina de Estudios sobre Cine y Audiovisual)
Established in 2008, the association brings together Argentine researchers, educators, critics, filmmakers, and students in film and audiovisual studies. It organizes academic events, publishes a journal, and acts as jurors for the Mar del Plata Film Festival Criticism Award while also offering online talks and workshops.
Gesta Uruguay
Research Group that aims to consolidate the field of film and audiovisual studies in Uruguay.
Encuentro Internacional de Investigación sobre Cine Chileno y Latinoamericano
Organized by the National Cinematheque of Chile at the Cultural Centre of La Moneda, this event encourages reflection on national and Latin American cinematographies.
RICiLa (Red de Investigadores sobre Cine Latinoamericano)
This network facilitates knowledge production and exchange among researchers studying Latin American cinema globally, focusing on databases and alternative cartographies of regional cinemas.
La Red de Estudios Visuales Latinoamericanos (ReVLaT)
This network promotes critical analysis of images and practices of visuality. They host congresses, publish a magazine, and facilitate online discussions.
Imagenlat
This network brings together interdisciplinary projects with a focus on images and intermediality in Latin America.
Red Cultura Visual Abya Yala
This network conducts academic research on visual culture studies in Latin America. You can find a variety of workshops and talks on its YouTube channel.
Red de Estudios de Artes Escénicas Latinoamericanas
This network focuses on Latin American theater and street performances connected to politics and history from the 20th and 21st centuries. It offers online seminars and visual records of performances.
Latin American Cinemas of the Silent and Golden Eras
¿Cuándo fue que se empezó a usar el término “cine clásico”? is a series of short conversations organized by Alejandro Kelly Hopfenblatt (University of Georgia) and Cecilia Gil Mariño (Researcher at the CONICET / Postdoctoral fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, University of Cologne). The dialogues encourage debates about classical cinemas, as well as the connections between national cinemas and transnational exchanges.
Afro-Latin American Audiovisual Culture
Cardumen Lab
Project of artistic creation, production and promotion that works on issues related to the Afro-descendant population in Mexico. Lectures and short films are available online.
Cimarrón Producciones
The first Afro-Colombian female-led audiovisual producing company. Interviews and short films are available online.
Preta Portê Filmes
Since 2009 Preta Portê Filmes has been producing feature films, documentaries, TV programmes and video clips with Afro-Brazilian protagonists.
Indigenous and Indigenist Audiovisual Cultures
Coordinadora Latinoaméricana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas (CLACPI)
As the oldest and largest Latin American organization for Indigenous Film and Media, CLACPI promotes community-based media, particularly video production, to preserve and enhance indigenous cultures from their perspective. Every two years, CLACPI organizes the Indigenous Film + Video Festival (Festival Internacional de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígenas).
Mother Tongue Film Festival
The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world. A few of the films are available for streaming on the website.
Video nas Aldeias
Founded in 1987 in Brazil, this project helps Indigenous filmmakers create their films. Vídeo nas Aldeias supports Indigenous peoples in strengthening their identities and preserving their land and culture through audiovisual resources.
Carribbean and Latinx Media
Caribbean Film Forum
A series of Facebook Live conversations with filmmakers and scholars about film in Caribbean context, on topics such as”Caribbean Silent Cinema” or “Screening Caribbean Cinema: A Talk with Film FestivalDirectors.”
Latinx Media
Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook, edited by Rielle Navitski and Leslie Marsh, explores various media forms (film, television, digital) and identities (race, gender, sexuality). It covers media histories of major Latinx groups (Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Central American) and highlights key Latinx creatives., Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Central American), and profiles of key Latinx creatives.
Environmental Humanities and Audiovisual Culture
Estética Fósil
A research initiative exploring the connections among aesthetics, ecology, and (audio)visual culture throughout modern history. It offers free online courses.
Revista ClimaCom
Digital Conversations on Ecopoetics in the Anthropocene.
Colectivo Bios
Materials related to bio art and transmedia. Workshops are available on its YouTube channel.
Ecology and Coloniality in Caribbean Film
Webpage of “(De)colonial Ecologies in the 21st-century insular Hispanic Caribbean film,” a comparative audiovisual research project focused on the Caribbean.
Found Footage and Experimental Film
Festival Internacional de Cine Recobrado de Valparaíso
The only festival in South America focused on found footage and heritage films.
Archivo mexicano de cine expandido
An organization dedicated to producing, disseminating, and studying experimental film and media art in Mexico. Lectures and short films are available online on its YouTube channel.
Visual Culture and Politics
Festival Frontera Sur
This Chilean film festival is offering a free course that aims to discuss an alternative history of the Third Cinema and Latin American political cinema.
Desbordes
Hosted by the Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Argentina, this podcast features a series of online discussions exploring the connections between visual arts, sound, aesthetics, politics, and philosophy.
La dictadura en el cine
A collection of movies that explore themes of dictatorship, state terrorism, and the democratic transition in Argentina.