In the fall of 2024, I had the privilege of attending Chilemonos, the inaugural Vancouver edition of the long-running Chilean animation festival dedicated to fostering connections between Latin American and Canadian animation cultures. The festival’s culminating event was the round…
Latin American Animation
Latin American Animation: A Singular Way of Seeing the World
by Eliane Gordeeff • May 28, 2026 • 0 Comments
Latin American animation has received significant attention at festivals and trade fairs since the advent of the internet and the computerization of production methods. It has challenged the dominant ways of seeing and creating space for alternative worldviews and visual…
Women’s Craft and Political Resistance in Como alitas del chincol (2002)
by Colin Wheeler • May 21, 2026 • 0 Comments
Vivienne Barry’s Como alitas del chincol (2002) is an animated documentary that dramatizes the contradictory roles of the arpilleristas as women engaged in both domestic craft and political subversion. A tribute to the quilters who survived and documented Pinochet’s dictatorship…
Transnational impact of South American dubbing monopoly of Disney classics
by Maria Pagès • May 19, 2026 • 0 Comments
For decades, the audiovisual consumption of Disney animated classics in the Spanish-speaking world was defined by a centralized dubbing model that prioritized economic profitability and private market over regional linguistic diversity (Iglesias Gómez, 2009: 499). The history of this process…