What makes a documentary ethnographic? How is this rad programmer of color changing film festivals? We talk with filmmaker, programmer, and anthropologist Professor Patricia Alvarez Astacio about her ethnographic documentary ENTREJIDO and her refined and critical approach to observational cinema. Shaped by the Universidad de Puerto Rico and her doctoral studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Patricia offers a blueprint for festivals to step into their full potential as inclusive and creative sites for the communities they descend upon. As co-director of the Society of Visual Anthropology Film Festival, she watches all film submissions-- a radical practice in today’s networked industry! How will you show up? Listen for ideas…

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