Latin American Filmmakers and European Film Funds - Refuse. Resist. Reframe

As filmmakers in the Global South are increasingly faced with the choice of succumbing to foreign visions of their own culture or losing access to indispensable funds and future prospects, this study explores this quandary through studying filmmaker's own perspectives.
The book focuses on filmmakers' individual approaches to European film funds, arguing not only that these creator-sponsor relationships are highly complex, but also that filmmakers are fully able to develop various strategies of resistance by reframing these relationships. The author explores the mechanics of European film funding and how filmmakers position themselves within the system, and demonstrates how these strategies are also present in film texts themselves - movies funded by European institutions often scrutinise the notion of intercultural relationships and power struggles, negotiating widespread perspectives on intercultural exchange. Excerpts from interviews with filmmakers, producers, adjudicators of funds and representatives of various cultural institutions are woven into scholarly arguments, theoretical reflections, and film analyses, to creative a narrative about Latin American filmmakers who manage to overcome obstacles and create novel, exciting ways of sharing their intercultural experiences.
This informative and nuanced study will interest students and scholars of media studies, film studies, South- and Central-American cinema, media industries, economics, politics, communication studies and languages.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Openings that Never End
Chapter 1: Struggles of a Latin American Filmmaker
Chapter 2: The Funds Fundamentals: Official Discourses, the Film Festival Formula, and the Selection Process
Chapter 3: Funds Give, Funds Take? The different facets of support, gathering of funds, and the imbalance of prestige
Chapter 4: The 'Fund Cinema': the Case of Minimalismo Mexicano
Chapter 5: Cracks in the Past: Decolonising the Discourses on History
Conclusion: Utopia of the Unattainable
Index

About the author

Boles¿aw Raci¿ski is an assistant professor at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales" at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Product details

• Authors: Boleslaw Racieski, Bolesław Racięski
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 28.11.2025
• EAN: 9781032672311
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3267231-1
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Routledge Studies in Media and Cultural Industries
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Corporate Finance, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Development Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film, TV and Radio industries, Cinema Industry, Film production: technical & background skills, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity