Communities of cinema, communities of formation: audiovisual production and training processes of indigenous peoples and nationalities in Abya Yala¹

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the audiovisual production and formation of the peoples and nationalities of Abya Yala. Based on post-colonial trends, film studies, the perspectives of intellectuals and indigenous cosmologies, we postulate that, by constituting themselves as spaces of experience, the creative and formative processes establish film communities as communities of formation (political, ethnic, historical). From the experience of the communication and film schools in the territories themselves, we see the film scene expanding as a historical, multi-epistemic and counter-colonial scene, opening up spaces for the emergence of subjects (emancipated, critical, reflective) and the rooting of community issues in film perspectives, with production and formation processes mediating ancestral knowledge and know-how.

Keywords
Coloniality of seeing; Indigenous cinemas; Cinema communities; Communities of formation; Abya Yala