Adjunct professor of creative documentary at TecnoCampus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and artistic director of MIDBO (International Documentary Film Festivals) and teacher at UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalonya). She is a member of ALADOS (Colombian association of documentary filmmakers), HoMER network and researcher in the group Narrrativas dela Resistencia (TecnoCampus). She has published articles in New Cinemas: Journal of contemporary film, Alphaville, Cuadernos de la Filmoteca and is co-editor with Pablo Mora and Daniela Samper of the book Territorio y memorias sin fronteras, nuevas estrategias para pensar lo real (2021). She was co-founder and co-director of Panorama de Cine Colombiano (2013-2016) organized by the association El Perro que Ladra in Barcelona collaboration with El Perro que Ladra Paris.

Picture Credits: Cristòfol Casanovas

Karoline Pelikan is a German-Peruvian documentary filmmaker. The films of her production company Pelikan Pictures focus on intimate portraits, gender violence and LGBTQI rights and were screened at international film festivals.

In 2018, Karoline founded the social arts project EmpoderArte, that creates safe spaces for women across Peru and uses audiovisual tools to tell creative stories. She teaches similar film workshops for Latin American women in the UK focusing on bicultural identity, racism and gender stereotypes.

Karoline is the founder of Cine Latino which promotes the work of independent Latin American filmmakers in the UK. In collaboration with independent cinemas, academic institutions, and in partnership with other organisations such as the Festival of Latin American Women in Arts, Karoline’s main goal is to shed light on socio-political issues in the region that are creatively told through innovative Latin American films.

The Twelve30 Collective showcases classic and contemporary films from the Caribbean and its diaspora. Our aim is to change the way Caribbean cinema is viewed within the global film landscape. We partner with cinemas, festivals, academic institutions and community groups in the UK to programme and screen films, both in-person and online.

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Our name is inspired by the past days of watching movies at the old Caribbean cinema palaces—12.30pm was the time each day the first feature screened in most cinemas across the region. The name is also a nod to Caribbean cinema's relationship to both the Hollywood industry and the Third Cinema tradition.

"All Port-of-Spain is a 12.30 show/Some playing Kojak, some Fidel Castro"

- Derek Walcott, The Spoiler's Return

Speakers:

Jonathan Ali is a film curator and writer. He is Director of Programming for Third Horizon Film Festival, in Miami, Florida. He is also a programmer for Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival in Hawick, Scotland, and a programme consultant for London’s Open City Documentary Festival and Sheffield DocFest. Previously he was a programmer at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and East End Film Festival, among others. Jonathan’s writing on cinema has appeared in various print and online publications.

Lisa Harewood is a digital storyteller. She produced the micro-budget feature A Hand Full of Dirt (2011) and wrote and directed the short film Auntie (2013). She is the creative director of the Barrel Stories Project, a multi-platform initiative documenting the experiences of Caribbean families separated due to migration. A virtual reality component, Love and Seawater, was selected for talent labs at Sheffield Doc/Fest and IDFA DocLab Forum.