BAVC Media and CiNEOLA are thrilled to co-present another Town Talk exploring expanded cinema, participatory storytelling, interactivity and questions of memory and belonging with filmmakers Rodrigo Reyes and Miguel Novelo. Town Talks is a virtual community conversation, convening mediamakers to break bread and exchange ideas.

Miguel Novelo is an experimental media artist, filmmaker, and cultural event creator from Yucatan, Mexico. He uses new media, interactivity, and expanded cinema to create immersive sound and expanded image experiences that generate platforms for participatory storytelling. His latest project, an interactive documentary called La Marea, is now showing on CiNEOLA.

Mexican director Rodrigo Reyes makes films deeply grounded in his identity as an immigrant artist, crafting a poetic gaze from the margins of both cultures, using striking imagery to portray the contradictory nature of our shared world, while revealing the potential for transformative change.

Tuesday, October 13th | FREE | 5pm PST / 8pm EST

Via Zoom (link will be sent closer to date) – RSVP REQUIRED

CiNEOLA is a platform for Latin American stories, connecting audiences with diverse representations of Latinoamérica on film.

Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is a 44-year old community media organization located in San Francisco, California, with a mission to inspire social change by empowering media makers to develop and share diverse stories through art, education and technology.

Please email us at BAVC Media@bavc.org if you have questions for the artists that you would like to submit in advance.

Closed captioning services or sign language interpretation will be made available upon request – please let us know by October 11th if you require interpretation, captioning, ot if there are other accommodations we can possibly provide to make this program accessible to you.