La Lucha (The Fight)
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Closed captions online
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Open captions in-person
When a group of people with disabilities in Bolivia unite in protest for a pension, they never imagined what was to come. Trekking the Andes in their wheelchairs, they’re forced to confront a government that tries to silence them and a society indifferent to their struggle. La Lucha is a tribute to all those who fight for change.
Screenings
Virtual
August 4 – August 6
Directors Spotlight
Violeta Ayala
Director
- Filmmaker, Creative Technologist, Writer, Artist
- First Quechua member of the Oscars
- Award-winning documentaries: La Lucha (BlackStar, ITVS), Cocaine Prison (Toronto, Amazon, PBS), The Fight (The Guardian), The Bolivian Case (Hot Docs), Stolen (Toronto)
- Interactive VR animation: Prison X (Sundance & Cannes XR)
- Co-founder of unitednotions.film and koa.xyz
- XR Lab co-designer and mentor: Expylab in Paraguay (one of 10 winners of Meta’s Metaverse
Communities Challenge 2023) - Metaverse gallery: KOA.xyz (winner at Yale Center for architecture)
- AI-based post-photography: Las Awichas Exhibition (Dall-E/OpenAI fellowship)
- 50+ film awards
- Interactive keynotes on film futurism: MIT, Berlinale, Forum Des iMages (Paris), AIDC
(Melbourne), Diplomado de Mujeres Creando UMSA/UNAM (La Paz).
- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 89 minutes
- Country
- Australia, US, Bolivia
- Language
- Spanish, Quechua
- Director
- Violeta Ayala
- Premiere
- World