Earlier this month, I attended the opening gala of the aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival, the longest running Latinx film festival in Canada. [1] This year, aluCine highlighted indigenous voices from Latin America, as was apparent immediately from the opening, when an indigenous Maya woman came onto the stage to acknowledge the land on which the AGO was built. Her opening ceremony, which featured songs and ceremonies from both her own Maya people and Canada’s Anishinaabeg, was a … [Read more...]