CONSTRUCTING YOUR OWN CINEMATIC LANGUAGE

11:10 - 12:00 Onsdag 18. marts 2026 / 50 min

How did the first-time filmmaking team behind Jaripeo craft the film’s lush, poetic language by drawing on their multidisciplinary art backgrounds, and how did embracing a vision of queer, hybrid storytelling shape their journey?

In this panel, filmmakers Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig reflect on the creative process and industry support that contributed to bringing their intimate and sensorial dive into the world of rural Mexican rodeos to the Sundance Film Festival, public media and beyond.

Speakers

Efraín Mojica

Efraín Mojica (Director & Producer) is a photographer, filmmaker and performance artist from Michoacán, living in Mexico City. Their work has shown in galleries around the world from Berlin, Barcelona, Seattle and most recently Museo Tlatelolco in Mexico City. Video art has always been a central part of Efraín’s work and their filmmaking is heavily influenced by their work as a conceptual artist which explores the translation and interpolation of different mediums – light, sound, and matter. In Efraín’s first feature documentary Jaripeo, the artist explores new ways of telling these real human stories, by taking an experimental film approach and walking the line between the real and the subconscious.

Rebecca Zweig

Rebecca Zweig is a Mexico City–based filmmaker and writer. Published in The New York Times and The Nation, she is a Sundance Institute fellow and (Egg)celerator Lab grantee. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her filmmaking is shaped by her poetic practice. Jaripeo is her first feature film.

Sektioner

Conference

Bsquare

Tid og sted

18mar2026

Onsdag11:10 - 12:00Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Moderators

Elena Fortes

Creative producer and cultural strategist with 15+ years experience in the film industry. Co-founder and director of the Ambulante Film Festival (2005-2006), co-conspirator at No Ficción (A Cop Movie, Midnight Family), and founder of Fiasco, creative studio focused on film production and publicity. In 2024, she founded FIASCO, a creative studio devoted to developing projects across diverse artistic practices that uphold the free, serendipitous, and collaborative nature of filmmaking, with a focus on nurturing new talent, producing and distributing independent cinema, and crafting communication strategies and campaigns for films. She has been a fellow of the Sundance Institute and Doc Society, and is a member of several international organizations, including the Global Impact Producers Alliance (GIPA), Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA), International Documentary Association (IDA), Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM), the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMACC), the European Film Academy (EFA), and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). She currently serves as Vice President of the Mexican Association of Independent Producers (AMPI) and Women in Film and Television (MCyTV) in Mexico.

Curator

Heidi Fleisher

American producer, consultant and industry expert based in France with 20 years of experience in documentary film. Previously a buyer for France TV’s strand 25 Shades of Docs, head of sales & acquisitions for ARTE Sales and a US-based development exec, Heidi frequently intervenes as a mentor, educator and consultant for producers, festivals, workshops and industry events. Her producing work focuses on creative documentaries that blend the emotional depth of the human experience with a unique artistic vision, including feature docs EL CASTILLO by Martin Benchimol, WAKE UP ON MARS by Dea Gjinovci, DON’T BREATHE by Nino Kirtadze), as well as the ongoing short doc series ELEMENTAL with Sandbox Films (USA).