In Guatemala in 2018, the General Assembly of the Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas (Latin American Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples’ Film and Communication, CLACPI), through the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) chose Ecuador as the venue for the CLACPI International Festival. In addition to CONAIE, the members of the Organising Committee are CORPANP, APAK and ALLPACHE CINE, collectives specialising in indigenous peoples’ audiovisual production.

After a break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the biannual International Film Festival returns to Ecuador for the second time, after the 13th Festival was held in Guatemala.

Since 1985, CLACPI has been fighting, through audiovisual and communication, to position and promote the work of the native peoples of Abya Yala, who are made invisible by the large film corporations and their hegemonic discourse. CLACPI has a consultative status with the United Nations for recommendations on film and communication.

Around 200 films from around the world were registered for the 14th FIC CLACPI Ecuador 2022 Film Festival. The official selection will be presented on 22 to 25 November, mainly at the Metropolitan Cultural Centre of Quito, and will also visit intercultural educational units and community territories around Quito. It is organised into the following categories:

• Women’s expression, vision and demands
• Presence of children and youth
• ​Resistance with identity
• Care and territorial defence

The Mapuche, Pasto, Awajún, Lenca, P’urhépecha, Uitoto, Quechua, Aymara, Seri, Tzotzil and Jambaló Peoples are among the 31 Ancestral Peoples present in the 12 feature films, 26 short films and 7 medium-length films to be screened in Ecuador.

The FIC CLACPI Ecuador 2022 agenda will run until February 2022, concluding with Warmiicine, an international laboratory for women and the special gender-focussed exhibition.

The central event in November includes artistic activities such as the closing intercultural gala, specialised activities such as the International Workshop on the Right to Indigenous Communication, the FestiLAB of film narratives from indigenous peoples and the Minka of Knowledge, and special activities organised with international delegations, such as the Canadian imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival held annually in Toronto, the Kin Theory project from the United States, the special delegation of the Comisión de Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas de Colombia (Indigenous Peoples’ Media Commission of Colombia), indigenous gender diversity activists from Guatemala, Colombia and Venezuela, ancestral authorities, TV Serrana directors from Cuba, and the Mapuche Seremi of Arts and Culture for the Araucanía in Chile.

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