Join us in the Ottawa Art Gallery’s Alma Duncan Salon on Thursday, March 2nd for a film screening of Cecilia Araneda’s debut feature, Intersection.
Chilean refugee Daniela (Carmen Aguirre) came to Canada as a child after her mother was assassinated during Chile’s dictatorship. Her father, Pepe, never wants to speak about Chile, but when her daughter Rocío starts to ask questions, Daniela decides to apply for Chilean citizenship for a first trip back. In doing this, however, Daniela triggers a chain of events that ends up uprooting the very foundation of her life.
In conjunction with the screening of Intersection, writer, director, and producer Cecilia Araneda is also holding a master class at DARC: Producing Your First Feature Film. This master class takes place on Friday, March 3rd in DARC’s workshop room (A158). Register through Eventbrite here.
Program Schedule
Doors: 6:00pm
Screening: 6:10pm
Q&A: 7:50pm
Reception: 8:30pm
Location
Alma Duncan Salon | Located on Floor 3 of the Ottawa Art Gallery
50 Mackenzie King Bridge, Ottawa, ON K1N 0C5
Event Pricing
Free Admission
Registration for this event is not required but is encouraged to guarantee your seat and for contact tracing.
About Cecilia Araneda
Winnipeg-based Chilean-Canadian filmmaker and curator Cecilia Araneda came to Canada as a child as a refugee together with her family, after they escaped Chile’s military dictatorship. This experience and its aftermath play a large role in her artistic work. Aesthetically, Araneda’s art practice is strongly rooted in the examination of private and public memory as it connects to identity, consciously working against the idea of the fully controlled image. Most well-known her work in analogue film, Araneda works in experimental, documentary and fiction forms. Araneda has completed 16 short films to date, which have screened at venues such as Visions du Réel, Ann Arbor, Images Festival, TIFF Wavelengths, RIDM and others. Her first feature film, Intersection, was released in fall 2022. Araneda holds an MFA in screenplay writing from UBC and is a three-time alumna of the Film Farm. She is additionally a nationally-recognized media art curator and a past recipient of the Canada Council’s Joan Lowndes Prize.
COVID Protocol
We are asking all attendees to please wear a mask while attending this screening.
Ensuring the safety of all attendees and the DARC community is our priority. We strongly encourage everyone attending the screening to be up to date with their COVID-19 vaccine and boosters.
Accessibility
All Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG) entrances, galleries, and venues are fully accessible. Please note, the OAG’s accessible drop off location is 10 Daly Avenue.
50 Mackenzie King Bridge entrance: For those taking OC Transpo, get off at Mackenzie King Station, continue east towards Ottawa U. The OAG is on the same side of the street as the Rideau Centre mall, at the northwest corner of Mackenzie King and Waller. The OAG’s entrance is recessed from the street with an LED sign out front.
DARC staff are available and happy to assist with all inquiries and requests regarding physical access. We also welcome inquiry, feedback, and resources regarding accessibility and accessibility improvement by phone (613.238.7648 x 6) or by email at access@digitalartsresourcecentre.ca.
