CaliShorts in NYC is a showcase of short films by emerging filmmakers in Cali, Colombia, and NYC, followed by a horizontal discussion of the selected films and independent film clubs, joining both cities via livestream.

Selected shorts as follows:
¿Qué Hacer En Yumbo? (@quimericafilms)
Agua para la vida (@movimientosermontana_)
Black Gold (@nataliepenapeart)
Care Cosmologies and Undersides (@miltonxtrujillo)
CineClubismo Caleño a 50 años de Caliwood (@ccinecali)
Cremacion Digital (@jozzeyel)
Libro #3: El Enigma de La Mercancía (@cinexplora_cali)
Mujeres Atrevidas (@mujeresatrevidasbk)
Pagpapa(-)alam: To Wish You Well, So You Know (@cesillylimb)
Pasillo 3 (@caliterror)
Peón, Territorio Que Se Narra (@minecomunidad)
Redbirds (@nicotype)
Simone (@aisha____amin)
T r a c e s o f Y a r r o w (@ezrom_williams)

CCINEC is a collective of independent cinema clubs in Cali dedicated to offering free, accessible, and socially conscious programming to local communities. They continue the legacy
of Caliwood, an independent cinema movement born in the 1970s in Cali, now its 50th anniversary. The term “Caliwood” was coined as a tongue-in-cheek critique and oppositional
gesture towards the hollywood film hegemony, one complicit in producing images and narratives that render Global South nations as underdeveloped and exploitable.

Cinemóvil NYC is a revolutionary mobile cinema collective of filmmakers and cultural workers organizing political cinema programming for local NYC communities. CCINEC and cinemóvil nyc are connected by their respective missions to make socially-conscious cinema accessible to local communities and to challenge institutional structures of cultural production.

As part of this program, open calls for short films by emerging filmmakers were hosted in either city as a form of cross-cultural exchange. This screening highlights the important cultural work occurring in both cities by film spaces and collectives that have mobilized independently of institutional support. It also aims to make cinema accessible across borders, a process that is all too often limited through geoblocking practices at mainstream film institutions and festivals. Selected films in this program reflect a variety of working-class, migrant, diasporic, queer, feminist, black, indigenous, and activist perspectives.

Due to limited time, only two of the NYC shorts will screen at Mayday Space to accommodate the full slate of short films from Cali. However, screener links will be made available for the NYC shorts in advance of the screening upon RSVP to offer NYC attendees an opportunity to engage
with the films, as well.

Graphic design by Ryan Page

Tickets are a suggested donation $0-$15 *nobody will be turned away for lack of funds*