- Also see – Cecilia Araneda Biography
- Also see – Press & Accolades
EDUCATION
- MFA in Creative Writing, Screenplay writing thesis (Hart Hanson), UBC
- BFA (honours) in Theatre, Playwriting major, York University
- Three-time alumna of Phil Hoffman’s Film Farm
AWARDS FOR CAREER
- Joan Lowndes Award, Canada Council for the Arts (Canada), 2019 – for independent curatorial practice
- Manitoba Film Hothouse Award, Province of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada), 2017 – for independent filmmaking career
- Women in the Arts: Artists Working for Social Change (Media Arts Category), nominated by MAWA: Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Province of Manitoba, 2011 – recognition for cultural career
FILM AWARDS
- Barry Lank Memorial Award for social justice film, DOC Manitoba (Winnipeg, Manitoba), 2023 – Unarchive
- Best Feature Film, International Women Filmmakers Festival (Izmir, Türkiye), 2023 – Intersection
- Best Film (co-recipient), Swedenborg Film Festival (London, UK), 2022 – The Space Shuttle Challenger
- Special Jury Mention, International Documentary Competition, Shorts México (Mexico City, Mexico), 2021 – Unarchive
- Honourable Mention, Expanded Shorts Section, This Human World: International Human Rights Film Festival (Vienna, Austria), 2020 – Unarchive
- Winner, Best Experimental Short, Arizona Underground Film Festival (Tucson, USA), 2019 – The Space Shuttle Challenger
- Winner, International Documentary Competition, Shorts México (Mexico City, Mexico), 2019 – The Space Shuttle Challenger
- Winner, Expanded Shorts Section, This Human World: International Human Rights Film Festival (Vienna, Austria), 2018 – The Space Shuttle Challenger
- 3rd Place, biannual Premio Norberto Griffa a la Creación Audiovisual Latinoamericana (Buenos Aires, Argentina), 2018 – The Space Shuttle Challenger
- VTape Award for Best Video Art, Alucine Latin Media Arts Festival (Toronto), 2010 – What Comes Between
- Best Drama, San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, 2007 – Halley’s Comet
- Best Drama Short, Manitoba Blizzard Awards, 2003 – Unwoven
- Best Independent Documentary, Canadian International Annual Film Festival, 1999 – Chile: A History in Exile
WORK SURVEYS / SOLO SCREENINGS
- Retrospectiva Cecilia Araneda, Proyecto Corporalidad Expandida (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Sept 2018
- Inner Worlds and Soft Landings: The Films of Cecilia Araneda, Winnipeg Cinematheque (Winnipeg, Canada), Feb 2018
- In Reflection: the Films of Cecilia Araneda, presented by LIFT: Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto at PIX Film Gallery (Toronto, Canada), July 2017
- Memory Work: the Films of Cecilia Araneda, curated by Scott Birdwise, Canadian Film Institute, Café Ex (Ottawa, Canada), April 2010
OTHER SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS
Selected for over 100 festivals, including:
- International Film Festival Rotterdam – lessons on flight
- Visions du Réel – What Comes Between
- Ann Arbor Film Festival – What Comes Between, Before, landing, lessons on flight
- Athens International Film + Video Festival – Before, The Space Shuttle Challenger, Mer Bleue
- Chicago Underground Film Festival – The Space Shuttle Challenger
- Drama International Short Film Festival – Amnesia
- Documenta Madrid – What Comes Between
- Experiments in Cinema – Imprint, Mer Bleue, landing, souvenir, Hypnagogia
- Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano – Chile: A History in Exile, lessons on flight
- Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris – Imprint, The Space Shuttle Challenger, lessons on flight
- Festival du Nouveau Cinéma – Imprint, Presque Vu
- Huesca Film Festival – What Comes Between
- Images Festival – What Comes Between, Memory, The Space Shuttle Challenger
- Jihlava International Documentary Festival – What Comes Between, The Space Shuttle Challenger, Hypnagogia
- Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg – What Comes Between
- L’Alternativa Barcelona – What Comes Between, landing, Hypnagogia
- Leeds International Film Festival – Imprint
- Ourense International Film Festival – Amnesia
- RIDM: Montreal International Documentary Festival – Unarchive, lessons on flight
- Uppsala Short Film Festival – Unarchive
Selected for over 30 curated group screenings at cinematheques, galleries and artist run centres, including at:
- TIFF Wavelengths (Canada) – What Comes Between
- Maysles Documentary Center (USA) – What Comes Between
- Film Anthology Archives (USA) – What Comes Between
- MUSAC: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon (Spain) – What Comes Between
- Cinémathèque Québécoise (Canada) – What Comes Between
- National Arts Centre (Canada) – What Comes Between
RESIDENCIES
- International Artist Residency, Q21 (Vienna, Austria), 2019
- International Media Art Curatorial Residency, FICWALLMAPU International Indigenous Film Festival of the Mapuche Nation (Temuco, Chile), 2017
- Roberto Ariganello Residency Award, LIFT: Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (Toronto, Canada), 2017
COLLECTIONS
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon (Léon, Spain), 2010 – What Comes Between
- Proyecto Adrienne – a gift from Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to the National Library of Chile in 2003, collecting works made by Chileans in Exile in Canada, Santiago (Chile) – Chile: A History in Exile
FILMOGRAPHY
- Epitaph, Experimental Documentary, 44:44 mins, DCP, 2025 / Work in Progress
- Western Brook Pond, Experimental Documentary, 6:05 mins, DCP, 2025 / Work in Progress
- lessons on flight – Experimental, 4:27 mins, 16 mm / DCP, 2024
- Hypnagogia – Experimental, 4:37 mins, 16 mm / DCP, 2024
- souvenir – Experimental, 5:07 mins, 16 mm / DCP, 2023
- Intersection – Feature Film, 99 mins, digital file / DCP, 2022
- landing – Experimental, 4:43 mins, 16 mm / digital file, 2021
- Unarchive – Experimental Documentary, 12:55 mins, digital file, 2020
- Mer Bleue – Experimental, 3:50 mins, 16 mm / digital file, 2019
- The Poster Guy – Documentary, 22:43 mins, digital file, 2017
- The Space Shuttle Challenger – Experimental Documentary, 9:32 mins, digital file, 2017
- Before – Experimental, 3:35 mins, 16 mm / digital file, 2016
- Cumbia 42 – Music Video, Norte Tropical (Jim Hiscott and Rodrigo Muñoz), 4:35 mins, 16 mm / digital file, 2014
- Presque Vu – Experimental, 4:13 mins, 16 mm / digital file, 2013
- Memory : Recollected – Film Performance, 10 mins, 16 mm, 2011
- What Comes Between – Experimental Documentary, 5:38 mins, 16 mm / digital file, 2009
- Imprint – Experimental Drama, 5:30 mins, 16 mm / digital file, 2007
- In Reflection – Experimental, 3:38 mins, S8 mm / digital file, 2007
- Halley’s Comet – Drama, 12 mins, 16 mm, 2005
- Amnesia – Drama, 14 mins, 35 mm, 2003
- Memory – Experimental Drama, 3:57 mins, 16 mm / digital file, 2002
- Unwoven – Drama, 14 mins, 16 mm, 2001
- Chile: A History in Exile – Documentary, 28 mins, digital file, 1998
PRESENTATIONS
2024
• lessons on flight – International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
• What Comes Between – MAWA: Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Armour for Living: 40th Anniversary Screening, curated by Leslie Supnet (Winnipeg, Canada)
• souvenir – Ribalta Experimental Film Festival (Vignola, Italy)
• lessons on flight – Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, USA)
• Intersection – Canada Film Day, as a special presentation of Reel Canada and the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada)
• Hypnagogia – Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, USA)
• Unarchive – Archivo, Memoria y Resistencia, curated by Allison Figueroa and Revive, at Cine Maldá (Barcelona, Spain)
• Hypnagogia – Videos de Femmes dans le Parc, curated by GIV: Groupe Intervention Vidéo (Montreal, Canada)
• lessons on flight – Festival des Cinémas Differents et Expérimentaux de Paris (Paris, France)
• Hypnagogia – Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Jihlava, Czech Republic)
• Hypnagogia – Engauge Experimental Film Festval (Seattle, USA)
• Hypnagogia – L’Alternativa (Barcelona, Spain)
• lessons on flight – The Botanical Turn, Dandelion Film Collective, curated by Franci Duran and Derek Jenkins (Hamilton, Canada)
• lessons on flight – RIDM: Montreal International Documentary Festival (Montreal, Canada)
• lessons on flight – Nature = Queer, EQO and International Film Festival Rotterdam, at Roodkapje Art Gallery (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
• lessons on flight – Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Havana, Cuba)
2023
• Intersection – DARC: Digital Art Resource Centre, as a special presentation (Ottawa, Canada)
• landing – Ann Arbor Film Festival, Celluloid Body, curated by Diana Sánchez (Ann Arbor, USA)
• Intersection – Elles Tournent Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium)
• Intersection – International Women Filmmakers Festival (Izmir, Türkiye)
• Intersection – Vancity Theatre, as a special presentation of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada)
• souvenir – Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, USA)
• Chile: A History in Exile – Canadian Museum of Human Rights (Winnipeg, Canada)
• Intersection – University of Ottawa, in Collaboration with Chile’s Embassy in Canada (Ottawa, Canada)
• landing – Experimental Film Series (Salt Lake City, USA)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Sur Gallery, Diaspora Dialogues: Archiving the Familiar, curated by Sarah Shamash and Tamara Toledo (Toronto, Canada)
• souvenir – Mostra Stangloscope (Florianópolis, Brazil)
• Unarchive – FLIGHT / Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova (Genoa, Italy)
• souvenir – BIDEODROMO (Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain)
• souvenir – Girona Film Festival (Girona, Catalunya, Spain)
• Intersection – Muestra Internacional de Mujeres en el Cine (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Intersection – Africa International Film Festival (Lagos, Nigeria)
• souvenir – FIVAC: Festival Internacional de Videoarte de Camagüey (Camagüey, Cuba)
2022
• Unarchive – Millennium Film Workshop, The People’s Revolt: A New Constitution, curated by Anto Astudillo (Brooklyn, USA)
• landing – Dawson City International Short Film Festival (Dawson City, Canada)
• Unarchive – Lebu International Film Festival (Lebu, Chile)
• Unarchive – Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, USA)
• landing – Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, USA)
• landing – Deluge Contemporary Art, cygnus congress landing, curated by Deborah de Boer and Todd Eacrett (Victoria, Canada)
• Intersection – LatinArte (Montreal, Canada)
• Intersection – Toronto Latin American Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)
• Intersection – Portland Film Festival (Portland, USA)
• Unarchive – Seattle Latino Film Festival (Seattle, USA)
• landing – Engauge Film Festival (Seattle, USA)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – FLIGHT / Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova (Genoa, Italy)
• Unarchive – Uppsala Short Film Festival, The People’s Revolt: Rewriting the Future, curated by Anto Astudillo (Uppsala, Sweden)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Ribalta Experimental Film Festival (Vignola, Italy)
• Intersection – Winnipeg Cinematheque, theatrical screening (Winnipeg, Canada)
• Unarchive – Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival (Winnipeg, Canada)
• Unarchive – BOGOSHORTS, Festivaleando: VLAFF, curated by Christian Sida (Bogotá, Colombia)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Swedenborg Film Festival (London, UK)
• Before – 16 MM Film Festival (Mumbai, India)
2021
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Mains d’Œuvre, Cinémathèque Temporaire, curated by Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris, France)
• Mer Bleue – Athens International Film + Video Festival (Athens, USA)
• Unarchive – Dawson City International Short Film Festival (Dawson City, Canada)
• Unarchive – CineFest (San Antonio, USA)
• Unarchive – Dobra International Experimental Film Festival (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Unarchive – Shorts Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
• landing – Antimatter Festival (Victoria, Canada)
• Presque Vu – Engage Experimental Film Festival (Seattle, USA)
• Unarchive – RPM: Revolutions Per Minute Festival (Boston, USA)
• Unarchive – FIVA: Festival Internacional del Videoarte (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• landing – L’Alternativa: Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
2020
• Mer Bleue – Brussels Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium)
• Mer Bleue – Dawson City International Short Film Festival (Dawson City, Canada)
• What Comes Between – Maysles Documentary Centre, The People’s Revolt: A Showcase of New Chilean Experimental Cinema, curated by Anto Astudillo (Harlem, USA)
• What Comes Between – Amherst Cinema, The People’s Revolt: A Showcase of New Chilean Experimental Cinema, curated by Anto Astudillo (Amherst, USA)
• Mer Bleue – Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, USA)
• Mer Bleue – London Experimental Film Festival (London, UK)
• Mer Bleue – Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada)
• What Comes Between – Anthology Film Archives, The People’s Revolt: A Showcase of New Chilean Experimental Cinema, curated by Anto Astudillo(NYC, USA)
• Unarchive – RIDM: Montreal International Documentary Festival (Montreal, Canada)
• Unarchive – Intermediaciones (Medellín, Colombia)
• Unarchive – This Human World: International Human Rights Film Festival (Vienna, Austria)
2019
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – ICDOCS: Iowa City International Documentary Festival (Iowa City, USA)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – San Diego Underground Film Festival (San Diego, USA)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Shorts Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Arizona Underground Film Festival (Tucson, USA)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – KLEX: Kuala Lampur Experimental Film, Video and Music Festival, Unless You’re Living It: Dis/Integration, curated by the re:assemblage collective (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Arkipel: Jakarta International Documentary + Experimental Film Festival, Unless You’re Living It: Dis/Integration, curated by the re:assemblage collective (Jakarta, Indonesia)
• What Comes Between – TIFF Wavelengths, We Are Going Home, Film Farm: 25 Years of the Mount Forest Independent Imaging Retreat Programme, curated by Chris Kennedy (Toronto, Canada)
• Before – TIFF Reference Library, Film Farm: 25 Years of the Mount Forest Independent Imaging Retreat Exhibit, curated by Philip Hoffman (Toronto, Canada)
• Mer Bleue – Bogotá Experimental Film Festival / CineAutopsia (Bogotá, Colombia)
• Mer Bleue – BIDEODROMO International Exerimental Film and Video Festival (Bilbao, Spain)
• Mer Bleue – Dobra International Experimental Film Festival (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Before – Engage Experimental Film Festival (Seattle, USA)
• Mer Bleue – WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, Canada)
• Mer Bleue – CODEC International Exerimental Film and Video Festival (Mexico City, Mexico)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Memoria, curated by Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2018
• Presque Vu – Instituto de Culturaa de Baja California, VIDEOFEST2K18 (Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico)
• Before – Rencontres Internationals Traverse (Traverse, France)
• In Reflection – Casa Sofia, 5° Jornada Audiovisual Feminista, curated by Mujeres Audiovisuales (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• What Comes Between – Time and Place / L’Heure et L’Endroit, part of Found in Translation / Traduction Fidéle, Canada/Europe Tour, curated by Stephanie Berrington for the Winnipeg Film Group (Winnipeg, Canada)
• Before – VISIONS Montreal / La Lumière, Film Farm: A Pact with the Process, curated by Phil Hoffman (Montreal, Canada)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Athens International Film + Video Festival (Athens, USA)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, USA)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (Paris, France)
• Before – Arizona Underground Film Festival (Tucson, USA)
• Before – San Diego Underground Film Festival (San Diego, USA)
• Before – Dobra International Experimental Film Festival (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Before – Girona Film Festival (Girona, Spain)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Biennial de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – This Human World: International Human Rights Film Festival
2017
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Images Festival (Toronto, Canada)
• Before – Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, USA)
• Before – Athens International Film + Video Festival (Athens, USA)
• Before – Revelation Perth International Film Festival (Perth, Australia)
• Before – MARFICI: Mar de Plata International Independent Film Festival (Mar de Plata, Argentina)
• Presque Vu – VUCAVU, A Sense of Belonging / EyesOnVU, curated by Caroline Monnet (Toronto, Canada)
• Presque Vu – Museo de Bellas Artes RosaGalisteo – BIM: Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento: VER touring program (Santa Fe, Argentina)
• The Poster Guy – Gimme Some Truth Documentary Film Festival (Winnipeg, Canada)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Antimatter Festival (Victoria, Canada)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Jihlava International Documentary Festival (Jihlava, Czech Republic)
• The Space Shuttle Challenger – Curtocircuito Festival (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2016
• Memory – Alucine Latin Media Arts Festival (Toronto, Canada)
2015
• Presque Vu – Biennal de Artes Médiales (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Presque Vu – Currents: Santa Fe International New Media Festival (Santa Fe, USA)
• What Comes Between – Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Portrait of a Non-Place; Postmodern Fictions & Solitary Drifts, curated by Solomon Nagler (Montreal, Canada)
2014
• Presque Vu, Mostra Joven ICAIC, international tour curated by Festival Signes de Nuit International (Havana, Cuba)
• Presque Vu, Sleepwalker Festival, international tour curated by Festival Signes de Nuit International (Tallinn, Estonia)
• Presque Vu, Rencontres de Film Court, international tour curated by Festival Signes de Nuit International (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
• Presque Vu, Mostra Internationale del Muovo Cinema, international tour curated by Festival Signes de Nuit International (Pesaro, Italy)
• Presque Vu, Festival du Voyageur, On the Fort projection loop, curated by Heidi Phillips (Winnipeg, Canada)
• Presque Vu, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada)
• What Comes Between – Biennial de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2013
• Presque Vu – Dawson City International Short Film Festival (Dawson City, Canada)
• Presque Vu – Alucine Latin Media Arts Festival (Toronto, Canada)
• Presque Vu – Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
• Presque Vu – FIVA: Festival Internacional de Videoarte (Buenos Aires, Agentina)
• Presque Vu – Festival du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal, Canada)
2012
• What Comes Between – Galerie Sans Nom, My Precious Novella, curated by Mireille Bourgeois, (Moncton, Canada)
2011
• What Comes Between – National Arts Centre: Prairie Scene, Winnipeg to Saskatoon, curated by Solomon Nagler (Ottawa, ON)
• What Comes Between – SAW Video, My Precious Novella, curated by Mireille Bourgeois, (Moncton, NB)
• What Comes Between – PLATFORM Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, again + again, curated by Tom Kohut (Winnipeg, MB)
• What Comes Between – Cinémathèque Québécoise, New Prairie Cinema: WNDX Collective, curated by Double Negative Collective, Cinémathèque québécoise (Montreal, QC)
2010
• What Comes Between – Images Festival (Toronto, Canada)
• In Reflection – the8fest (Toronto, Canada)
• What Comes Between – Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland)
• What Comes Between – Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, USA)
• What Comes Between – Chicago Latin Film Festival (Chicago, USA)
• What Comes Between – Documenta Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
• What Comes Between – Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca (Huesca, Spain)
• What Comes Between – Jihlava International Document Film Festival (Jihlava, Czech Republic)
• What Comes Between – Vizii: International Visual Culture Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine)
• Imprint – Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, USA)
• What Comes Between – L’Alternativa: Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain
2009
• What Comes Between – Antimatter Festival (Victoria, Canada)
• What Comes Between – Festival du Cinéma International en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Rouyn-Noranda, Canada)
• Imprint – Shutter2Think, Winnipeg DIY, curated by Mike Maryniuk (Terrace, Canada)
2008
• Imprint – AFCOOP, Prairie Dreaming, curated by Solomon Nagler (Halifax, Canada)
• Imprint – Cineworks, Optical Allusions (Vancouver, Canada)
• Imprint – Island Media Arts Co-op, Centred Screenings (Charlottetown, Canada)
• Imprint – Short Cuts Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
• Imprint – Edges Showcase of Contemporary Media Art (Victoria, BC)
• Imprint – Òblo Film Festival (Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Imprint – Festival Cinematográfico del Uruguay (Montevideo, Uruguay)
• Imprint – Dawson City International Short Film Festival (Dawson City, Canada)
2007
• Imprint – Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (Paris, France)
• Imprint – Festival du Cinéma International en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Rouyn-Noranda, Canada)
• Imprint – St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (St. John’s, Canada)
• Imprint – Festival du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal, Canada)
• In Reflection – Festival Internacional de Video y Cine Experimental: Puertas del Cine (Vallecas, Spain)
2006
• Halley’s Comet – San Francisco Women’s Film Festival (San Francisco, USA)
• Halley’s Comet – Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)
• Halley’s Comet – Festival Cinematográfico del Uruguay (Montevideo, Uruguay)
• Halley’s Comet – DC Independent Film Festival (Washington, DC, USA)
• Memory – NSI-Canada FilmExchange (Winnipeg, Canada)
• Memory – Winnipeg Cinematheque, Alone on the Landscapes of Forever: New Experiments in Prairie First Person Cinema, curated by Solomon Nagler (Winnipeg, Canada)
2005
• Memory – Gimli Film Festival (Gimli, Canada)
2004
• Amnesia – International Short Film Festival in Drama (Drama, Greece)
• Amnesia – Gimli Film Festival (Gimli, Canada)
• Memory – $100 Film Festival (Calgary, Canada)
2003
• Memory – The Blinding Light, Manitoba Mania, curated by Solomon Nagler (Vancouver, Canada)
• Memory – Ladyfest Halifax, Fortress of Film (Halifax, Canada)
• Memory – Winnipeg Cinemathque, Shadowy Encounters: Rites of Passage in Film + Video, curated by Dave Barber (Winnipeg, Canada)
• Amnesia – Festival internacional de cine independente de Ourense (Ourense, Spain)
• Memory – Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
• Memory – Reel Island Film Festival (Charlottetown, Canada)
• Memory – send + receive (Winnipeg, Canada)
• Chile: A History in Exile – One World Film Festival (Ottawa, Canada)
2002
• Unwoven – NSI FilmExchange (Winnipeg, Canada)
• Unwoven – Victoria Film Festival (Victoria, Canada)
• Unwoven – Festival Chileno Internacional del Cortometraje (Santiago, Chile)
• Unwoven – Gimli Film Festival (Gimli, Canada)
• Chile: A History in Exile – Winnipeg Cinematheque, Three Stories from Haunted Lands (Winnipeg, Canada)
2001
• Chile: A History in Exile – Videoteca del Sur (New York City, USA)
1999
• Chile: A History in Exile – Chicago Latino Film Festival (Chicago, USA)
• Chile: A History in Exile – CineFest (San Antonio, USA)
• Chile: A History in Exile – Festival del Cortometraje de Santiago (Santiago, Chile
• Chile: A History in Exile – Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Havana, Cuba)
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MEDIA ARTS CURATORIAL
- Editor | National Gathering of Latin Canadian Filmmakers: A Memoir . Edited by Cecilia Araneda. Winnipeg: Cecilia Araneda, ISBN 9781069042101, 87 pgs, 2024
- Curator | Field Notes from a Rainy Day: The Animations, Meditations and One Takes of Leslie Supnet, at WNDX, 2024
- Curator | Franci Duran: In Departure’s Wake, at WNDX, presented in partnership with Harbour Collective and Video Pool, 2021
- Curator | From Nunavik to Kitigan Zibi: Short films by Indigenous filmmakers based in Quebec, at imagineNative online, presented in partnership with Harbour Collective, daphne and GIV, 2021
- Essay | “Penny McCann: Within the Unsaid,” a response to Land Lines (of time and space) in no particular order, presented at Gallery 101, 2021
- Curator | !in.site; Dallas Flett-Wapash and Taylor McArthur, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Main Gallery, 2020
- Curator | Senderos: Los Cortometrajes de Caroline Monnet, FICWALLMAPU International Indigenous Film Festival of the Mapuche Nation, 2018
- Commissioning Curator / Curator Mentor | Geographies/Géographies, VUCAVU, 2018
- Curator | A Geography of Words: Short Poetry Films, Envoi Poetry Festival, 2015
- Curator | In Search of Impermanence: The Documentary Shorts of Sam Green, Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival, 2015
- Curator | Memetic Drive: The Video Work of Scott Benesiinaabandan, WNDX, 2014
- Curator | 40 Years On: The Narration of Chilean Resistance and Exile in Cinema, Winnipeg Cinematheque, 2013
- Curator | Biography: Films by Prairie Women Filmmakers, WNDX, 2012
- Co-Curator | The New Wave, DVD publication produced by the Winnipeg Film Group, 2012
- Essay | “The WFG’s First Decade in a New Century,” accompanying The New Wave program, 2012
- Essay | “Guy Maddin and the Language of Early Cinema” accompanying Guy Maddin’s Hauntings, presented at PLATFORM, 2011
- Co-Curator |Wafaa Bilal and Andrew Milne: Cyborg Cinema, WNDX, 2011
- Essay | “The Machine as an Act of Peace,” accompanying the Cyborg Cinema program, 2011
- Curator | A Process of Seeing: A Barbara Sternberg Retrospective, WNDX, 2010
- Editor | PLACE: 13 Essays, 13 Filmmakers, 1 City . Edited by Cecilia Araneda. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Film Group Inc., ISBN 978-1-9266650-1-6, 136 pgs, 2009
- Curator | Poetic Passages: A Philip Hoffman Retrospective, WNDX, 2009
- Curator | A Fragile Transition: Past and Present in Chilean-Canadian Cinema, WNDX, 2009
- Essay | “A Fragile Transition: Past and Present in Chilean-Canadian Cinema,” accompanying the curated program of the same name, 2009
- Co-Curator | Great Experiments! Manitoba Shorts Just for Kids, WNDX, 2009
- Co-Curator | Time, Space and Light: The Photographic Memories of Jason Britski and Ian Toews, WNDX, 2007
- Curator | The Other September 11th, Winnipeg Cinematheque, 2003
PUBLISHED WORKS
- The Ocean: A Novel. FriesenPress, 2012 (248 pages)
- Place: 13 essays, 13 filmmakers, 1 city. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Film Group, 2009 (136 pages) – Editor
- Scar Tissue (short story), Treeline literary e-zine, winter 1998
- The Day: Vanishing (short story), Zygote literary magazine, fall 1996
- In Reflection (poem), Zygote literary magazine, fall 1995
INTERNATIONAL JURIES
- Assessment Panelist, Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, IDA: International Documentary Association (Los Angeles, USA), 2023
- Jury Member, imagineNATIVE, Water Jury for Digital and Interactive (Toronto, Canada), 2021
- Jury Member, This Human World: International Human Rights Film Festival (Vienna, Austria), 2019
- Jury Member, FICE: Festival Internacional Corporalidad Expandida (Buenos Aires, Argentina), 2018
- Jury Member, FICWALLMAPU International Indigenous Film Festival of the Mapuche Nation (Temuco, Chile), 2017
- Jury Member, Festival International Signes de Nuit (Paris, France), 2015
RELATED ACTIVITY
- Co-Founder and Chair, WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg) – 2005/2014; 2023/current
- Mentor, Foundation Mentorship Program – MAWA: Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art – 2023/2024
- Media Arts Sector Consultant, Various Contracts (National) – 2017/current
- Co-Founder and Member, Mujer Artista (Winnipeg) – 2014/2022
- Digital Initiatives Manager, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Brandon) – 2018/2020 (2 year contract)
- Vice President, Independent Media Arts Alliance (Montreal) – 2015/2017
- Executive Director, Winnipeg Film Group / Winnipeg Cinematheque (Winnipeg) – 2006/2017
- Vice President / President / Governance Committee Chair, Artspace (Winnipeg) – 2006/2014