LAFF Julia Se Revela

LAFF Screenings: Julia Se Revela and Formas de Atravesar un Territorio

Saturday, July 19, 2025 · 4 PM

Bronx Documentary Center
614 Courtlandt Ave, Bronx, NY 10451

Join the BDC on Saturday, July 19th, for a screening of the short film, Julia Se Revela, followed by the feature documentary, Formas de Atravesar un Territorio.

Julia Se Revela is a biographical documentary about Julia Chambi López, who is considered the first Andean and Peruvian female photographer. By tracing her photos and objects from her life, Julia—daughter, sister, woman, artist, photographer, politician, and lover of Cusco—reveals herself in every story, place, and person that remembers her.

Formas de Atravesar un Territorio is a feature documentary about a group of indigenous Tsotsil women—shepherds and wool weavers—as they tend their sheep while honoring their land’s memory. Their encounter with the filmmaker, in their ancestral mountains, reveals a longing to acknowledge different ways of inhabiting the same territory, and asks the question: how does our sense of belonging shape the way we see the world?

Following each screening, the films’ directors will participate in an audience Q&A.

Bios 

Claudia Holgado Chacón is a Peruvian communicator specialized in designing social communication strategies, as well as a researcher and cultural manager with expertise in the history of Andean photography and participatory photographic projects. Claudia is a professor in the Department of Communication at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and the co-director of the short film Julia Reveals Herself. She currently works at the Julia Chambi López Archive.

Andrea Quiroz Linares is a Peruvian director and editor for Uno y Medio S.A.C., an audiovisual production company she co-founded. Among her documentary works is the autobiographical short film Andrea a Diario, which has been selected at various international film festivals and won multiple awards. Andrea is a professor in the Department of Communication at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and co-director of the short film Julia Reveals Herself.

Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba is a Mexican director and editor whose artistic practice explores documentary and experimental forms of storytelling that arise from her interest in themes where memory and time becomes present and the sense of territory and ecology. Following her first documentary, La danza del hipocampo (2014), she began to investigate the forms of the film essay, which led her to pursue a master’s degree at the EICTV in Cuba. Formas de atravesar un territorio (2024) is her second feature film.