Friday December 5, 2025 | 11:00AM-12:30PM 

Lindy Boggs Energy Center 104

Keynote Lecturer: Amalia Córdova

In Frames of Resistance: The Cinemas of Abya Yala (Oxford University Press, 2025), Amalia I. Córdova Hidalgo examines how Indigenous filmmakers make their cultural vitality visible on screen. She explores the development of collectives, analyzes select works, and uncovers the links between these filmmakers and global cinema. Córdova foregrounds first-person accounts of this movement through new translations of excerpts from films, as well as speeches, interviews, and pronouncements by filmmakers at live events. The result is a book that builds upon Indigenous principles of organization and reciprocal ways of being, offering proposals for teaching practices, circulating these films, and ensuring long-term access to this important body of work.