ARC @ Cine Sin Fronteras
Tijuana, Mexico
21 November 2025
11:00am to 12:45pm (CST)
CECUT – Sala de Juntas del Cendo
Tijuana, Baja Norte, Mexico
ARC is honored to collaborate with the 2025 edition of Cine Sin Fronteras as part of the Abya Yala Human Rights Film Festival Network, a special subprogram of the wider festival. We will conduct a practical session “Eje Seguridad Digital,” concerning digital safety for filmmakers and film festival teams. The session will take place on Friday, 21 November 2025 from 11:00am to 12:45pm.
Cine Sin Fronteras will run from the 18th to the 22nd of November in Tijuana, a city which symbolizes transit and migrant resistance. With the support of organizations such as Open Society, the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, The Colombian Consulate in Mexico City, Heinrich Böll México, Rosa Luxemburgo México, and Global exchange, the encounter is envisioned as a space of artistic convergence, audiovisual cooperation, and cross-regional cultural diplomacy. From there, the festival will launch a call for integration, the ethical management of human mobility, and the visibility of migrant dignity, turning Tijuana into an epicenter of memory, hope, and collective action.
ARC Session @ Abya Yala Human Rights Film Festival Network (Friday)
As part of the objective to strengthen capacities for safe communication and digital protection in the face of growing censorship and surveillance, ARC Latin America Regional Representative Alessandro Zagato, will lead a workshop on security for filmmakers. ARCs session will focus on digital and general safety for artists and film festival teams, offering practical tools for secure communication, password management, encryption, data protection, and risk assessment. It will also address broader strategies for physical and emotional safety in countries facing authoritarian or repressive contexts in Latin America. The day concludes with a collective dialogue on freedom of expression and the political responses that festivals can articulate in times of neofascist resurgence.
Speakers
Alessandro Zagato
Alessandro Zagato is the Latin America & The Caribbean Regional Representative for the Artists at Risk Connection. Prior to ARC, he worked as a researcher for a European Research Council project. He founded the “Research Group in Arts and Politics” (Grupo de Investigación en Arte y Politica – GIAP) and the associated “Casa Giap,” a residency center for international artists and researchers. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Maynooth University, Ireland and is the author of “After the Pink Tide. Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America” (Berghahn Books 2020) and “The Event of Charlie Hebdo: Imaginaries of Freedom and Control” (Berghahn Books 2015), among several other publications. He lives in San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Chiapas, Mexico).
