Almudena Escobar López

Almudena Escobar López is a scholar, curator, and archivist based in Tkaronto. She is Assistant Professor on Film History, Film Preservation and Collection Management at the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University. She earned her Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester, and holds an MA in Film and Media Preservation from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on documentary and artists’ moving-image practices, while also addressing broader questions of visual historiography and alternative information ecologies. She is currently developing Ecologies of Rural Cinema, a research project on experimental and community-based rural film initiatives in Europe and Canada, in collaboration with Casa de Lava (Catalunya) and Cinema Fulgor (Baixo Alentejo).

As a guest curator, Almudena has curated and co-curated numerous film and video series presented at institutions including Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, TIFF, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Arsenal, Lincoln Center, Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, the Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá, and the Cineteca Nacional de México, among others. In 2022, she co-curated the Flaherty Seminar “Continents of Drifting Clouds” alongside Sky Hopinka. She is a member of the programming committee of Diffusion in Tkaronto, together with Faraz Anoushahpour, Scott Miller Berry and Ryan Ferko. She also serves on the boards of directors of both the Media City Film Festival and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center.

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