Index
Masterclasses and talks
- Ecos del Xinjiang
2026 Ecos del Xinjiang — Cineteca Nacional de Chile / UDP, Santiago — Cine-forum associated with Film Study Days: Archives and New Technologies; Screenplay-Advisor participation.
- Merrimundi / Chilean Animation Today
2026 Merrimundi / Chilean Animation Today — Cineteca Nacional de Chile / UDP, Santiago — Screening and cine-forum within Film Study Days: Archives and New Technologies.
- Taller de Cine de Invasión Cine — Invited Masterclass
2026 Taller de Cine de Invasión Cine — Invited Masterclass — Guest session in the online film workshop directed by Mercedes Gaviria, Jerónimo Atehortúa and Federico Atehortúa. Invited to share notes on creation and cinematic …
- ¿Inteligencia Artificial? — Panel Discussion
2026 ¿Inteligencia Artificial? — Panel Discussion — Centro de Cine y Creación (CCC), Santiago. Panel on the use of artificial intelligence in audiovisual production with Niles Atallah, illustrator/animator Maite Zárate and au…
- Inauguración ANIMAFICCI — FICCI 64, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
2025 Inauguración ANIMAFICCI — FICCI 64, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia — Invited filmmaker for the opening projection and conversation at NIDO, Palacio de la Proclamación, 2 April, with Juan Camilo González. Discussion on the…
- Latin American cinema Masterclass
2025 Latin American cinema Masterclass — Masterclass and discussion of Atallah’s films at Centro Gabriela Mistral (GAM), Santiago, Chile, for the visiting Cinema and Storytelling in Chile and Argentina programme. Invited by C…
- Labyrinths and Mirages: Cinema as a Multidimensional Art
2025 Labyrinths and Mirages: Cinema as a Multidimensional Art — Invited masterclass, CINETORO / FICCALI, Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes, Cali, Colombia. Sala de Música de Cámara; in the festival’s animation programme…
- ¿Lo que suena vive?
2025 ¿Lo que suena vive? — Panel and screening, CINETORO, INTEP, Roldanillo, Colombia. With Mercedes Gaviria and Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat; moderated by Bibiana Rojas Gómez. Discussion of sound, music and film materiality.
- Film and Animation Masterclass
2025 Film and Animation Masterclass — Invited university masterclass at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia by Professor Juan Camilo González.
- II Coloquio Internacional de Cine y Filosofía: Entre la Tierra y el Pueblo
2024 II Coloquio Internacional de Cine y Filosofía: Entre la Tierra y el Pueblo — Invited online participant in the hybrid international colloquium held in Mexico, July 2024, coordinated by Sebastián Wiedemann, Byron Davies a…
- Escuela FIDOCS, Santiago, Chile
2024 Escuela FIDOCS, Santiago, Chile — Shared masterclass and discussion with Álvaro Ceppi and Joaquín Cociña, for film students attending the festival’s educational programme.
- “Diluvio in Focus” Centro Arte Alameda Talk
2024 “Diluvio in Focus” Centro Arte Alameda Talk — Discussion with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León following the Diluvio short-film retrospective, 16 December.
- Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse, France
2024 Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse, France — Masterclass / encounter at Les Abattoirs, Musée–Frac Occitanie Toulouse, within Otra mirada: Casa Creativa Diluvio. Followed by short films from Créatures étranges et lumières…
- LISAA Toulouse, France / Cinélatino
2024 LISAA Toulouse, France / Cinélatino — One-day rotoscoping masterclass for third-year bachelor students in 2D/3D animation. Practical live-action filming, frame-by-frame animation and editing; collective work presented in…
- Palestinian cinema discussion, Valdivia, Chile
2024 Palestinian cinema discussion, Valdivia, Chile — Invited participation in a public discussion associated with FICValdivia’s Palestinian cinema focus. Discussion of the Palestinian Film Unit and its films.
- Conversatorio Verdad y Ficción — Mesa 2: El cultivo y los cuidados de las ficciones
2024 Conversatorio Verdad y Ficción — Mesa 2: El cultivo y los cuidados de las ficciones — Invited panelist, Revista Poros, Santiago, 16 November. Conversation on fiction, truth, apocalypse and dystopia, bringing filmmakers a…
- Games of Subversion: The Loss of Control Needed for Living Images
2023 Games of Subversion: The Loss of Control Needed for Living Images — Masterclass, SAE Institute México, Campus 2, Mexico City; The Audience of the Future Seminar, FICUNAM 13.
- IX International Symposium of Aesthetics UC: Thinking the Anthropocene from the South — Film Conversation
2023 IX International Symposium of Aesthetics UC: Thinking the Anthropocene from the South — Film Conversation — Panel participant, Centro de Cine y Creación (CCC), Santiago, 26 October. Conversation on cinema within the symp…
- Documento Inestable: I Encuentro sobre objetos, afectos y formatos fílmicos
2022 Documento Inestable: I Encuentro sobre objetos, afectos y formatos fílmicos — Invited Artist / Dialogue Participant, Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho, Santiago, 13 August. One of four open discussion tables with Niles At…
- Cinema as a Magical Vehicle
2021 Cinema as a Magical Vehicle — Universidad Austral de Chile — Masterclass, Facultad de Arquitectura y Artes.
- Crossings Between Fiction and Nonfiction
2019 Crossings Between Fiction and Nonfiction — Invited Panelist, Escuela FIDOCS, Santiago. With Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León and María Paz González; moderated by Alejandra Moffat. Discussion of Rey, La casa lobo and Lina d…
- Rey Student Talk
2018 Rey Student Talk — Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago — Film screening and discussion with students.
- Genre and Language in Contemporary Ibero-American Cinema: A Journey Across Latitudes
2018 Genre and Language in Contemporary Ibero-American Cinema: A Journey Across Latitudes — Invited Panelist, Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda / CineMigrante, Argentina, Arts Week. With Marcos Loayza, Adirley Queirós and Ir…
- Futurities and Cinematic Figurations from the South
2018 Futurities and Cinematic Figurations from the South — Invited Panelist, 9th CineMigrante International Film Festival, Centro Cultural General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina. With Adirley Queirós, César González, Mar…
- F. W. Murnau and his influence on contemporary cinema
2017 F. W. Murnau and his influence on contemporary cinema — Olhar de Cinema, Curitiba, Brazil. Invited panel with Mónica Delgado, Aaron Cutler and Neusa Barbosa; held during the Murnau retrospective.
- Marcos Sánchez
Marcos Sánchez — Studio visit with the Painter and Filmmaker; discussion of artistic and moving-image practice, in particular in painting, 2D animation and rotoscopy techniques.
- Del cielo a la tierra Palestina: Resistencias desde el cine
2025 Del cielo a la tierra Palestina: Resistencias desde el cine — CineastasxPalestina / Centro Arte Alameda, Santiago, 2 September. Collective programme pairing The Diary of a Sky (Lawrence Abu Hamdan) and Foragers (Jumana M…
- Palestina, ¿Imagen (in)existente? Imágenes resistentes
2024 Palestina, ¿Imagen (in)existente? Imágenes resistentes — Film-screening and public-discussion programme, Centro Arte Alameda, Santiago. Participation in the discussion of Palestinian cinema, in the context of the collect…
- Cineastas por Palestina, Chile
2023–present Cineastas por Palestina, Chile — Member. Collective organization of screenings of Palestinian cinema and films about Palestine, with public discussions in Santiago. The collective runs a monthly cineclub in Santi…
- Valdivia radio interview on Palestinian cinema.
c. 2023–2024 — Valdivia radio interview on Palestinian cinema. Discussion of films by the Palestinian Film Unit, during FICValdivia’s Palestinian cinema focus.
- SAE México. “Niles Atallah en SAE México.”
2023 — SAE México. “Niles Atallah en SAE México.” Recorded masterclass, 8 June; associated with Juegos de subversión. El descontrol necesario para miradas vivas and FICUNAM’s Seminario El Público del Futuro.
- “El cine como vehículo mágico.”
2021 — “El cine como vehículo mágico.” Universidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Arquitectura y Artes, 7 May. Recorded masterclass for the Línea Vinculante courses; faculty video playlist.
- Animation Obsessive. “How They Animated ‘The Wolf House’.”
2022 — Animation Obsessive. “How They Animated ‘The Wolf House’.” 3 October. Interview and craft analysis concerning León and Cociña, with discussion of their early collaboration with Atallah.
- Blanco, Felipe. “Escrito por cineastas.”
2023 — Blanco, Felipe. “Escrito por cineastas.” laFuga 27. Includes a substantial discussion of Atallah’s “Un vehículo de luz”.
- Bartin, Elie. “Zinebi ou le sens de la rupture.”
2026 — Bartin, Elie. “Zinebi ou le sens de la rupture.” Cahiers du cinéma 827, January: 73. ZINEBI report with a substantial discussion and still from Merrimundi.
- Mosciatti, Ezio. “Récord de estrenos chilenos: ‘Rey’, ‘Salamandra’ y ‘Sapo’ debutaron hoy en salas.”
2018 — Mosciatti, Ezio. “Récord de estrenos chilenos: ‘Rey’, ‘Salamandra’ y ‘Sapo’ debutaron hoy en salas.” BioBioChile, 11 January. Release overview with a dedicated discussion of Rey. Posted by Emilio Contreras.
- Delgado, Mónica. “Olhar de Cinema: Sobre la retrospectiva de F. W. Murnau.”
2017 — Delgado, Mónica. “Olhar de Cinema 2017: Sobre la retrospectiva de F. W. Murnau.” Desistfilm, 25 June. Festival essay documenting Atallah’s participation in a panel on Murnau’s influence on contemporary cinema.
- Moseguí, Carlota. “Rotterdam: Premios y críticas de la Competencia.”
2017 — Moseguí, Carlota. “Rotterdam 2017: Premios y críticas de la Competencia.” Otros Cines, 3 February. Competition report and review of Rey. The Rey discussion was republished as “La fantasía mitológica de Nilles Atallah c…
- Negrete, JJ. “FICUNAM | ‘Rey’: Rayones en la historia.”
2017 — Negrete, JJ. “FICUNAM | ‘Rey’: Rayones en la historia.” Butaca Ancha, 24 February. Review of Rey, with discussion of Lucía.
- Munjin, Vanja. “Informe VII FICUNAM (1): Fragilidades expuestas. Lo histórico, lo marginal y lo poético como lugares de experimentación cinematográfica.”
2017 — Munjin, Vanja. “Informe VII FICUNAM (1): Fragilidades expuestas. Lo histórico, lo marginal y lo poético como lugares de experimentación cinematográfica.” El Agente Cine, 13 March. Festival report with an extended discu…
- “Entrevista a Vania Barraza.”
2015 — “Entrevista a Vania Barraza.” Revista Planeo, 13 January. Interview with the film scholar, including sustained discussion of Lucía, gender, urban redevelopment and historical memory; not an interview with Atallah.
- Herrera, Cinthia, and Nicole Trejo. “Cine, Ciudad y Memoria: Entrevista a Christian Ramírez.”
2013 — Herrera, Cinthia, and Nicole Trejo. “Cine, Ciudad y Memoria: Entrevista a Christian Ramírez.” 35 Milímetros, 8 May. Interview with the critic, including an extended discussion of Lucía’s domestic space and the represen…
- Biénzobas, Pamela. “58º Festival de San Sebastián (2): Chile, Chile lindo.”
2010 — Biénzobas, Pamela. “58º Festival de San Sebastián (2): Chile, Chile lindo.” Mabuse, 6 October. Comparative discussion of Lucía and Post Mortem.
- Losilla, Carlos. “Pequeña crónica de una transfiguración.”
2010 — Losilla, Carlos. “Pequeña crónica de una transfiguración.” Cahiers du cinéma España, October 2010, p. 27. Discussion of Lucía and La vida útil.
- Maza, Gonzalo. “Otros territorios, otras fronteras.”
2010 — Maza, Gonzalo. “Otros territorios, otras fronteras.” Cahiers du cinéma España, October 2010, pp. 58–59. Essay on contemporary Chilean cinema with discussion of Lucía.