Almudena Escobar López

An independent curator, archivist, and researcher from Galicia, Spain, she is Assistant Professor on Film History, Film Preservation and Collection Management, at the School of Image Arts of the Toronto Metropolitan University. Her work focuses largely on coloniality and artistic practices that propose alternative ways of understanding territoriality. Almudena is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Visual and Cultural Studies program at the University of Rochester. As a guest curator, Almudena has curated and co-curated a number of film and video series which have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, Film Society of Lincoln Center, CineMigrante Argentina, Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá, UnionDocs, ICDOCS, Visual Studies Workshop, Cineteca Nacional de México, among others.

Margarida Mendes
Researcher, curator and educator, she explores the overlap between systems thinking, experimental film, sound practices and ecopedagogy. She creates transdisciplinary forums, exhibitions and experiential works where alternative modes of education and sensing practices may catalyse political imagination and restorative action. She has been long involved in anti-extraction activism and ecopedagogy, collaborating with marine NGOs, Universities and institutions of the art world. She directed several educational and research platforms and was the guest film curator at the 11th Liverpool Biennale.