ALLISON ACZA FIGUEROA ROJAS
FILMMAKER-RESEARCHER-CURATOR-FILM PROGRAMMER
FILMMAKER-RESEARCHER-CURATOR-FILM PROGRAMMER
Allison Acza Figueroa Rojas is a Latinx filmmaker, researcher, curator, and film programmer. They are the founders 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 also known as Montreal, and an MA in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary Filmmaking from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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 also known as Montreal, and an MA in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary Filmmaking from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
As both a settler in Canada and an immigrant in Europe, Allison’s work explores power, memory, and colonial legacies through a decolonial and diasporic lens.
Their practice weaves together food narratives, identity politics, and relationships to homeland, with archival research playing a central role.
Allison's work has been supported and published by Concordia University, OKSTAMP Experimental Press (Montreal), The New Media Advocacy Project (New York), and Chicken and Bread Magazine (UK). Their films have screened at venues including Cinema Moderne (Montreal), Zumzeig Cinema (Barcelona), La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona), and Matadero Madrid. Festival presentations include the Cadence Video Poetry Festival (Seattle), La Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona (MIFDB), DocsBarcelona, DOCMA (Madrid), and The European Observatory on Memory, in July 2025 they participated in the 9th edition of Encontrarte Amares biennale in Portugal.
Their practice weaves together food narratives, identity politics, and relationships to homeland, with archival research playing a central role.
Allison's work has been supported and published by Concordia University, OKSTAMP Experimental Press (Montreal), The New Media Advocacy Project (New York), and Chicken and Bread Magazine (UK). Their films have screened at venues including Cinema Moderne (Montreal), Zumzeig Cinema (Barcelona), La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona), and Matadero Madrid. Festival presentations include the Cadence Video Poetry Festival (Seattle), La Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona (MIFDB), DocsBarcelona, DOCMA (Madrid), and The European Observatory on Memory, in July 2025 they participated in the 9th edition of Encontrarte Amares biennale in Portugal.
In 2024, Allison was awarded the Jury Prize at the Montreal Rendez-vous Vidéopoésie (RVVP), and their latest short film, Espectro (2024), is currently distributed by Vidéographe (Montreal).
In 2025, they were invited to inaugurate the new Invited Programmers section at the 7th edition of La Muestra de Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo de Barcelona, where her programming highlighted contemporary dialogues in Mexican cinema. That same year, they were invited to curate Ecos from Exile for the 9th edition of MUTA – Festival Internacional de Apropiación Audiovisual in Lima, Peru, a program that explored the intersections of memory, displacement, folklore and audiovisual reappropriation through the lens of Palestinian filmmakers.
They serve as the lead curator of Monday Night Tales: Global Narratives Through Cinema, a cocreative project with Revive Social Art Producers, while continuing to curate independently through Ratita Films.
They are currently working on their next film.
In 2025, they were invited to inaugurate the new Invited Programmers section at the 7th edition of La Muestra de Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo de Barcelona, where her programming highlighted contemporary dialogues in Mexican cinema. That same year, they were invited to curate Ecos from Exile for the 9th edition of MUTA – Festival Internacional de Apropiación Audiovisual in Lima, Peru, a program that explored the intersections of memory, displacement, folklore and audiovisual reappropriation through the lens of Palestinian filmmakers.
They serve as the lead curator of Monday Night Tales: Global Narratives Through Cinema, a cocreative project with Revive Social Art Producers, while continuing to curate independently through Ratita Films.
They are currently working on their next film.
