Almudena Escobar López

She is Assistant Professor of Film History, Film Preservation, and Collection Management at the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University. She holds a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester and an MA in Film and Media Preservation from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. Her curatorial and research practices center on documentary and artists’ moving-image practices, with a particular interest in visual historiography, cultural memory, and alternative forms of film exhibition and circulation. She has curated and co-curated film and video programs for institutions including Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, TIFF, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Arsenal, Lincoln Center, Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, the Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá, and the Cineteca Nacional de México. In 2022, she co-curated the Flaherty Seminar, “Continents of Drifting Clouds,” with Sky Hopinka. She is currently developing "Ecologies of Rural Cinema: Community, Place, and Moving Image Exhibition," a research project supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which explores experimental and community-based rural film initiatives in Europe and Canada. She is a member of the programming committee of Diffusion in Tkaronto and serves on the boards of the Media City Film Festival and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center.