We are visual anthropologists & filmmakers who push the boundaries of documentary storytelling through our decolonial & intersectional feminist practice.

Publications

“Visualizing Ethnography: Feminist Praxis in Anthropological Film”

”Jaddoland” Film Review | Directed by Nadia Shihab
- By Natalie Nesvaderani & Miasarah Lai

Ethnocine | Screening Room Series | Visual And New Media Review
- By Andrés Romero and Ethnocine Collective | July 30, 2020
An Introduction to Ethnocine Collective
- By Ethnocine Collective | July 30, 2020
Embracing Abundance in Business Featuring Reaa Puri
- By Ethnocine Collective and Rhiza Collective | July 30, 2020
A Case Study in Decolonial Documentary: Call Her Ganda Featuring PJ Raval
- By Ethnocine Collective and Rhiza Collective | July 30, 2020
Live from San José! Bad Feminists Making Films
- Featuring: Nadia Shihab, Tricia Creason-Valencia, Elena Herminia Guzman, Laura Menchaca Ruiz
- By Ethnocine Collective and Rhiza Collective | July 30, 2020
Teaching Recognition, Representation, and Collaboration: A Critical Examination of Documentary Film
- By Sarah O'Sullivan and Erin Gould | July 30, 2020
Feminist Praxis in Ethno-Fiction | Review of “Nobel Nok Dah” Directed by Emily Hong, Miasarah Lai, Mariangela Mihai
- By Emily Hue | August 13, 2020
Review of film “Get By” Directed by Emily Hong
- By Andrés Romero and Aidan Seale-Feldman | August 27, 2020
Documenting Worker Struggle | From the Series: Ethnocine: Get By
- By Natasha Raheja | August 27, 2020
Hay Betl7em هاي بيت لحم
- By Laura Menchaca Ruiz and Khader U. Handal | September 24, 2020

Past

Events & Workshops

Visions for Liberation: Third Cinema Revisited | Organized by Elena Guzman | April 14-16, 2021

Keynote Speaker: Freedom Dreams Refracted - Sonya Childress
Panel: Puerto Rican Documentary Filmmakers: Works from La Isla a La Diáspora | Facilitated by Miasarah Lai
- Featuring: Nadia Halgren, Gisela Rosaio Ramos, Karen Rossi
Panel: Anti-Roma Racism On and Off-Screen | Facilitated by Mariangela Mihai
- Featuring: Luiza Medeleanu, Alina Serban. Lisa Smith
Panel: Palestine at the Center: A Conversation with Filmmakers | Facilitated by Laura Menchaca Ruiz
- Featuring: Annemarie Jacir, Mai Masri
Panel: Cinematic Subversions: Feminist Politics in Southeast Asian Cinema | Facilitated by Emily Hong
- Featuring: Anna Har, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Shunn Lei Swe Yee
Panel: Experimental Approaches to Documentary Film: Conversation with the Smile4Kime Team
- Featuring: Elena Guzman, Cybee Bloss, Shiko Njorange, Laura Menchaca Ruiz
Panel: Ancestral Assemblages: Representing African Diaspora Spiritually | Facilitated by Elena Guzman
- Featuring: Artist Marcia X, Barbara McCullough, Régina Romain

Masterclass: Weaponizing Resistance: Feminist Filmmaking & the Representation of Muslim Women | Oct. 17, 2020 | 11 AM-12:30PM
Panel: Bad Feminist Making Films: On Intimacy and Filmmaking | Oct. 31st, 2020 | 12PM-1:30PM EST

“#DecolonizeDocs: A Feminist Filmmaking Works-in-progress Workshop” | Vancouver, Canada

Workshop: “Visualizing Fieldwork: Crafting Audio-Visual Media Using SmartPhones” | Friday, Nov. 16 | 1 - 5pm | San José State University’s Hammer Theater
Panel: Bad Feminists Making Films at MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana | Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018 | 7:30 pm
- Featuring: Nadia Shihab, Tricia Creason-Valencia, Elena Herminia Guzman, Laura Menchaca Ruiz

Bad Feminist Making Films Screening & Panel at Film and Friends at the Lookout DC | Washington, D.C.
- Facilitated by Maggie Lemere | Featuring: Emily Hong, Miasarah Lai, Mariangela Mihai