The revolutionary currents of the 60s set the Americas on fire and made the New Latin Cinema one of the most powerful cinematic movements in the world. Films from Latin America became unapologetically political, expressly aiming to transform the societies in which they were born. In their infamous and inflammatory Toward a Third Cinema manifesto, Pino Solanas and Octavio Getino called for filmmakers to “Insert [their] work as an original fact in the process of liberation, place it first at the service of life itself, ahead of art, [and] dissolve aesthetics in the life of society; only in this way, as Fanon said, can decolonization become possible…” In line with these revolutionary axioms, a batch of new directors came to the scene with films that defied both the hegemony of the Hollywood studio system and Europe’s aesthetic-driven cinema. 

This website is meant to be a live archive of resources for the study of three major exponents of New Latin American Cinema: Afro Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez, Brazilian director and theorist Glauber Rocha, and Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán.