ALLISON ACZA FIGUEROA ROJAS
FILMMAKER-RESEARCHER-CURATOR
FILMMAKER-RESEARCHER-CURATOR
Allison Acza Figueroa Rojas is a Chilean-Canadian filmmaker, researcher, curator, and film programmer. They are the founder of Ratita Films, a multimedia research-creation laboratory dedicated to working with the moving image, archives, and curatorial practice.
Born in Tongoy, Coquimbo, Chile, and raised in Canada, Allison holds a double specialization in English Literature and Film History from Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) and an MA in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary Filmmaking from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Allison's work explores power, memory, and colonial legacies through a decolonial,queer and diasporic lens. Their practice weaves together identity politics, relationships to homeland and experimental curatorial practices with archival research playing a central role.
Born in Tongoy, Coquimbo, Chile, and raised in Canada, Allison holds a double specialization in English Literature and Film History from Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) and an MA in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary Filmmaking from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Allison's work explores power, memory, and colonial legacies through a decolonial,queer and diasporic lens. Their practice weaves together identity politics, relationships to homeland and experimental curatorial practices with archival research playing a central role.
Their films have screened at venues including Cinema Moderne (Montreal), Zumzeig Cinema, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona), and Matadero Madrid. Festival presentations include Cadence Video Poetry Festival (Seattle), La Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona (MIFDB), DocsBarcelona, DOCMA (Madrid), the European Observatory on Memory, and the 9th edition of Encontrarte Amares Biennale (Portugal, 2025). In 2024, they received the Jury Prize at Montreal's Rendez-vous Vidéopoésie. Their latest short film, Espectro (2024), is distributed by Vidéographe (Montreal).
As a curator, Allison inaugurated the Invited Programmers section at the 7th edition of La Muestra de Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo de Barcelona (2025), highlighting contemporary dialogues in Mexican cinema. They curated Ecos from Exile for the 9th edition of MUTA – Festival Internacional de Apropiación Audiovisual (Lima, Peru, 2025), exploring intersections of memory, displacement, folklore, and audiovisual reappropriation through the lens of Palestinian filmmakers. In 2026, their work was featured in LABOCINE's The Science New Wave "Archives" edition and is currently part of the Vitheque Collection, a space dedicated to research and education in the media arts.
As a curator, Allison inaugurated the Invited Programmers section at the 7th edition of La Muestra de Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo de Barcelona (2025), highlighting contemporary dialogues in Mexican cinema. They curated Ecos from Exile for the 9th edition of MUTA – Festival Internacional de Apropiación Audiovisual (Lima, Peru, 2025), exploring intersections of memory, displacement, folklore, and audiovisual reappropriation through the lens of Palestinian filmmakers. In 2026, their work was featured in LABOCINE's The Science New Wave "Archives" edition and is currently part of the Vitheque Collection, a space dedicated to research and education in the media arts.
Allison's work has been supported and published by Concordia University (Montreal), OKSTAMP Experimental Press (Montreal), The New Media Advocacy Project (New York), and Chicken and Bread Magazine (UK).
They are currently working on their next film.
They are currently working on their next film.
