Sebastián González Itier

Thesis title: Chilean Film Festivals: promotors of Film Culture and Cinephilia in Chile.

Biography

CV

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Qualifications

PhD in Film Studies (The University of Edinburgh, UK)

MA Script and Audiovisual Development (Universidad de Los Andes, Chile)

Professional Degree Journalism (Universidad de Chile)

BA Social Communication  (Universidad de Chile)

Undergraduate teaching

Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Instructor and Teaching Assistant (Tutor)

Spanish 1B 

 

 

Current research interests

Film Festivals, Latin American Cinema, Chilean Cinema, Small Cinemas, Cinephilia, Film Culture,

Project activity

Festivales de Cine de Chile (www.festivalesdecine.cl). Research website about Chilean Film Festivals, granted by the Film Promotion Fund for Research (2017), of the Ministry of Art, Culture and Heritage, Chile.

Current project grants

Becas Chile (Scholarship) for Doctoral Studies, National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research CONICYT, Chile.

Past project grants

Postgraduate Scholarship for MA in Scriptwriting (U. de los Andes, Chile), granted by the Film Promotion Fund for Research (2011), of the Ministry of Art, Culture and Heritage, Chile.

Conference details

Transnational Screenwriting: A Dialogue Between Scholars and Industry

Universidad de Los Andes, Santiago de Chile, Chile

7-9 May 2015

Speaker: "El Rol de los Festivales de Cine en el Cine Transnacional" (The Role of Film Festivals in Transnational Cinema)

Moderator and Speaker: The Cinema Industry in Chile

 

LLC Work in Progress Seminar

The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

16 November 2016

Speaker: “Political Metaphors in La Luna en el Espejo (1990) and La Frontera (1991)”

 

PILAS Annual Conference 2017 “Discontinuities and Resistance in Latin America”

The University of Leeds, Leeds, England

26-27 June 2017

Speaker: "Isolated Characters and Communities in Latin American Films: The Wind Knows that I’m Coming Back Home (JL Torres Leiva, Chile 2016) and Arábia (A Uchoa & J Dumans, Brazil 2017)"

 

The 8th Annual International Conference on Small Cinemas: "Diversity in Glocal Cinemas: Language, Culture, Identity."

Universidad del País Vasco (University of Basque Country), Bilbao, Spain

20-22 September 2017

Speaker: "Ruralidad, alegorías y autorepresentación en El viento sabe que vuelvo a casa (José Luis Torres Leiva, 2016) y El Cristo Ciego (Christopher Murray, 2016)" (Rurality, allegories and self-representation in The Wind Knows I'm Comming Back Home (Dir. J. L. Leiva 2016) and The Blind Christ (Dir C. Murray 2016)).

 

VII Encuentro Internacional de Investigación sobre Cine Chileno y Latinoamericano

Cineteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

23-26 October 2017

Speaker: "Festivales de cine como ventanas de difusión y exhibición del cine chileno" (Film Festivals as a distribution and exhibition spaces for Chilean Cinema)

 

2018 SLAS Annual Conference

University of Southampton, Winchester, England

22-23 March 2018

Speaker: "Chilean Film Festivals: the local circuit of contemporary Chilean cinema."

 

PILAS Annual Conference 2018 “Contested Narratives: Engagement with Latin America within and beyond Academia”

University of Liverpool, England

4-5 June 2018

Speaker: "Mapping the field of film festivals in Chile."

 

Reframing Film Festivals Conference 2020.

"Reframing Film Festivals: Histories, Economies, Cultures". University of Venice, Italy, February 2020. Paper: “Film festivals from small nations”.

 

The 12th Annual International Conference on Small Cinemas

“From Celluloid to Streaming: Conservation and Circulation of Small Cinemas”. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, October 2021. Paper: “Film festival circuit in small nations”. (Forthcoming) 

 

Organiser

Thinking Chile: Sharing Ideas in Edinburgh 2019.

Organised by ChileGlobal Seminars UK, Chilean Society The University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh, Scotland. February 2019. Organiser Comitee and curator at Arts and Culture section.

Participant

Circuit. Channel. Circuit: Curating Artists’ Moving Image  SGSAH Workshop

Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

3-4 December 2016

 

 

González, S., Munjin, V. and Pinto, I. (2021). Por una política menor. Cine termita en el panorama chileno 2010-2020. En: Urrutia, C. y Pinto, I. (Eds) (2021). Estéticas del desajuste: Cine chileno 2010-2020. Santiago: la Fuga – Metales Pesados.

 

González Itier, S. (2020). FICValdivia y su posición en el cine chileno contemporáneo. Comunicación y Medios, (42), 96-107. doi:10.5354/0719-1529.2020.57288

 

González Itier, S. (2020). Nunca subí el Provincia, laFuga, 24. Disponible en: http://2016.lafuga.cl/nunca-subi-el-provincia/1018

 

González, S., Munjin, V. and Pinto, I. (2018). Operación termita: por una segunda línea en el cine chileno. Cuadernos.info, (s.I.), n. 43, p. 71-83, sep. 2018. ISSN 0719-367x (Scopus, WoS). Disponible en: http://www.cuadernos.info/index.php/CDI/article/view/cdi.43.1487

 

González Itier, S. (2018). Festivales de cine como ventanas de difusión y exhibición del cine chileno. En Villarroel, M (Ed) (2018) Imaginarios del cine chileno y latinoamericano. Santiago de Chile: LOM. 85-93.

 

González Itier, S. (2018). Una gramática de la melancolía cinematográfica, laFuga, 21. Disponible en: http://2016.lafuga.cl/una-gramatica-de-la-melancolia-cinematografica/891

 

González, S., Munjin, V. and Pinto, I. (2018). "Figurar la comunidad. Cine chileno en tres tiempos 1990-2017", Cinémas d'Amérique Latine #26 (Scopus).

 

González Itier, S. (2017). "Estudiando el circuito de festivales de cine en Chile", laFuga, 20. Disponible en: http://2016.lafuga.cl/estudiando-el-circuito-de-festivales-de-cine-en-chile/861

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