Mara Fortes is a film and media researcher and curator. She has curated programs for different institutions and festivals, including the Reina Sofia Museum, La Otra Bienal, REDCAT, and the Center for Digital Culture in Mexico City, where she headed the audiovisual division Cine más allá (Cinema Beyond). Since 2003, she has worked in film distribution and exhibition, starting at Women Make Movies, and later programming for various film festivals, including the Morelia International Film Festival, the Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, and CUORUM Festival of Gender and Sexual Diversity. Since 2014 she has worked for the Telluride Film Festival, where she is currently Senior Curator. In 2021 she helped create and co-hosted the public television program 41 Tropiezos de la heteronorma en México, a show devoted to LGBTQ+ figures in Mexico’s cultural and social historyMore...