Email: villar_at_fas.harvard.edu
Biografia:
Carmen Oquendo Villar es cineasta y practica la critica cultural. Se encuentra terminando su doctorado en Harvard University, con una tesis sobre el uso de los medios de comunicacion durante el golpe de estado chileno de 1973. Su tesis explora la relacion entre tecnologia y autoritarismo. Los estudios de genero y sexualidad en un contexto latinoamericano es un importante area de interes academico y politico y artistico. Como miembro de Somos Latin@s LGBT, la mayor organizacion latina lgbt del noroeste de EEUU, ayuda a organizar la semana de orgullo latino lgbt de Boston. Carmen es co-editora de una columna mensual en In Newsweekly, el mayor periodico LGBT de la Nueva Inglaterra.
Su trabajo filmico incluye una serie de documentales sobre la comunidad latina queer de Boston, realizados para el Film Studies Center (Harvard), WGBH (Boston PBS) y VES (Visual and Environmental Studies).
Sus films y videos han sido mostrados en el Harvard Film Archive, el Museo de Bellas Artes de Boston. Boston de NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers). Tambien ha sido parte de festivales de cine en diversas ciudades estadounidenses y de muestras internacionales (Chile, Brasil, Argentina, Espana, Colombia, y Puerto Rico).
Carmen también trabaja en el mundo de los festivales de cine. Ha trabajado por los ultimos tres anos en el Festival de Cine Latino de Boston (www.bliff.org) y ha sido curadora de varios festivales en Cambridge, San Juan, Bogota y Medellin. Actualmente colabora con la seccion de Boston de NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers). Es presentadora y productora del programa televisivo “Agentes Culturales” en Cambridge Community Television (CCTV).
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Originally from Puerto Rico, Carmen Oquendo Villar is a scholar and a filmmaker. She has numerous publications, fiction as well as non fiction, on diverse cultural fields including literature, music, art, media and performance. Her dissertation thesis is about the sounds and images of the 1973 coup in Chile. She considers the political use of media (radio, television, and press), as well as the relationship between technology and authoritarianism.
Gender studies in Latin@ America is her other field of interest. Her investment in this topic is not only academic, but also political and artistic. As board memeber of Somos Latin@s LGBT, the largest Latin@ LGBT Coalition in the North East, she helps organize Boston’s Latino Gay Pride and is the co-editor of a monthly column in IN NEWSWEEKLY (New Englan’s largest GLBT Newspaper). She is currently working on a series of documentaries about the queer Latino community in Massachusetts for the Film Studies Center (Harvard Univeristy), WGBH (Boston PBS), and VES (Visual and Environmental Studies). Her filmic work has screened at the Harvard Film Archive, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Boston Public Library (Women on Focus), Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in Brazil, the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival of Santiago, Chile, The Boston International Film Festival, The Boston Latino International Film Festival, San Juan Cinema Fest, and the Festival de videos de tematica Sexual (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Carmen has worked as the Submissions Coordinator for the Boston Latino International Film Festival (http://www.bliff.org) for the past three years. As film curator, she has put together film festivals in Cambridge (RLL Film Forum), San Juan (Berlinales, CIRCA), Bogota and Medellin (Ciclo de Cine Rosa). She is currently the producer and hostess of the new television show “Cultural Agents” at Cambridge Community TV (CCTV).
