ALLISON FIGUEROA ROJAS
Filmmaker · Researcher · Programmer · Communicator
Filmmaker · Researcher · Programmer · Communicator
Allison Figueroa Rojas is a Chilean-Canadian filmmaker, researcher, and film programmer, and the founder of Ratita Films — a multimedia research-creation laboratory working at the intersection of moving image, archives, and curatorial practice.
Born in Tongoy, Chile, and raised in Canada, Allison holds a double specialisation 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 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Their work explores power, memory, and colonial legacies through a decolonial, queer, and diasporic lens — weaving together identity politics, relationships to homeland, and experimental curatorial practice, with archival research at its core.
Born in Tongoy, Chile, and raised in Canada, Allison holds a double specialisation 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 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Their work explores power, memory, and colonial legacies through a decolonial, queer, and diasporic lens — weaving together identity politics, relationships to homeland, and experimental curatorial practice, with archival research at its core.
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 Fisura International Experimental Films Festival (MX), La Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona, DocsBarcelona, DOCMA (Madrid), the European Observatory on Memory, and the 9th edition of Encontrarte Amares Biennale (Portugal, 2025).
As a curator, Allison joined La Muestra de Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo de Barcelona for their 7th edition (2025), highlighting contemporary dialogues in experimental Mexican moving-image. 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 collections of independent video in Canada and a space dedicated to research and education in the media arts.
As a curator, Allison joined La Muestra de Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo de Barcelona for their 7th edition (2025), highlighting contemporary dialogues in experimental Mexican moving-image. 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 collections of independent video in Canada and 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.
