Index
Teaching
- Animation Workshop
2010; 2015–2026 Animation Workshop — Instructor. Practical teaching in animated filmmaking within the university’s audiovisual directing programme, emphasizing animation as a foundation of cinematic language and combining chr…
- Thesis Film Workshop
2021–2026 Thesis Film Workshop — Professor / Thesis Film Workshop Instructor. Supervision and creative guidance of students’ graduation-film projects.
- Prácticas Experimentales / Experimental Cinema, Master’s Level
2024 Prácticas Experimentales / Experimental Cinema, Master’s Level — Instructor, Master’s in Film and Audiovisual Studies, Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estética UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Practical-theo…
- Thesis-Film Directing Advising
2015–2016; 2018–2020 Thesis-Film Directing Advising — Directing Advisor. Guided film students in the direction of their graduation projects.
- Experimental Film Laboratory
2026 Experimental Film Laboratory — Instructor, Universidad Diego Portales. Theoretical-practical laboratory approaching experimental cinema as a daily, multidimensional practice across celluloid, analog video, found footage,…
- Animation Workshop
2023–present Animation Workshop — Instructor, Department of Film and Audiovisual Production, Universidad Diego Portales. Practical course moving from chronophotography and optical devices through stop motion, collage and roto…
- Introduction to Audiovisual Creation
2023 Introduction to Audiovisual Creation — Instructor, Department of Film and Audiovisual Production, Universidad Diego Portales. Introductory theoretical-practical course in storytelling, camera placement, blocking, lightin…
- Film Direction: Approaching Fiction Now
2022–2023 Film Direction: Approaching Fiction Now — Visiting Professor / Guest Lecturer. Visiting teaching on film direction and approaches to contemporary fiction filmmaking.
- Approaching Narrative: Introduction to Filmmaking
2021–2023 Approaching Narrative: Introduction to Filmmaking — Visiting Professor / Guest Lecturer. Visiting teaching in introductory filmmaking, focused on narrative approaches.
- True Fiction: Intermediate Filmmaking
2021–2022 True Fiction: Intermediate Filmmaking — Visiting Professor / Guest Lecturer. Visiting teaching in intermediate-level fiction filmmaking.
- Thesis-Project Supervision and Directing Advising
2017–2026 (intermittent periods) Thesis-Project Supervision and Directing Advising — Professor and Directing Advisor. Supervised thesis films and guided students’ directing projects.
- Thesis Film Workshop
2021–2022 Thesis Film Workshop — Instructor. Thesis-film teaching focused on Cinematography and feature-film projects.
- Cinematography Workshop / Cinematography and Soundtrack Creation II
2020–2021 Cinematography Workshop / Cinematography and Soundtrack Creation II — Instructor, Universidad del Desarrollo. Course on visual and sonic authorship connecting painting, photography, texture, atmosphere and soundscap…
- Fiction Filmmaking V / Taller de Realización Cinematográfica V
2020–2021 Fiction Filmmaking V / Taller de Realización Cinematográfica V — Instructor, Universidad del Desarrollo. Advanced authorial-fiction workshop focused on developing a coherent relationship between narrative content an…
- Directing Advising for Thesis Films
2019 Directing Advising for Thesis Films — Directing Advisor. Guided the direction of students’ thesis-film projects.
- Cinematic Experiments Workshop
2019–2020 Cinematic Experiments Workshop — Instructor, Universidad de Chile. Semester-long practical-theoretical course crossing early and experimental cinema with visual art, literature, performance, animation, image interve…
- Advanced Directing Workshop
2019–2020 Advanced Directing Workshop — Instructor. Advanced teaching focused on film direction.
- Directing Advising for Thesis Films
2018–2019 Directing Advising for Thesis Films — Directing Advisor, Film Programme. Guided students’ directing work on graduation-film projects.
- Taller de Realización V
2018 Taller de Realización V — Instructor, Audiovisual Communication Programme (CAV), Instituto Profesional ARCOS. Semester workshop exploring hybrid audiovisual forms across fiction, documentary and web formats. Students dev…
- Telefilm Workshop
2016–2018 Telefilm Workshop — Instructor, Television Programme, Instituto Profesional ARCOS. Group production workshop centered on a 24-minute telefilm adapted from a short story. Students moved from literary adaptation and s…
- Fiction Filmmaking II
2015–2018 Fiction Filmmaking II — Instructor, Film Programme, Instituto Profesional ARCOS. Collaborative fiction-filmmaking workshop in which students developed short films from screenplay and character research through pitch…
- Film Thesis Workshop
2015–2017 Film Thesis Workshop — Instructor, Instituto Profesional ARCOS. Advanced graduation-film workshop guiding professional short-film projects from pitch and screenplay development through pre-production, production and…
- Documentary Filmmaking I
2015–2017 Documentary Filmmaking I — Instructor, Instituto Profesional ARCOS. Practical introduction to documentary language and modes of representation, combining research, project development and production methodology. Stu…
- “A Different Way of Making Films”
2020 “A Different Way of Making Films” — Teaching Innovation Recognition, Centro de Innovación Docente, Universidad del Desarrollo. Responsible Instructor for Filmmaking Workshop V, first semester, with Collaborating Instruct…
- Cineteca Nacional de Chile
2024 Cineteca Nacional de Chile — Escuela al Cine. Creator of an animation teaching programme for public-school teachers, designed to support film and animation education in primary and secondary classrooms throughout Chile. …
- Qualitas
2025 Qualitas — Certificación UChile — External Expert Committee Member for the certification of the Escuela de Cine y Televisión, Facultad de Comunicación e Imagen, Universidad de Chile. Site visit: review of the school’s la…
- Film History and Experimental Rotoscopy Workshop
2026 Film History and Experimental Rotoscopy Workshop — Instructor, Cineteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago. Eight-session workshop combining film history with hands-on experimental rotoscope animation. Third edition taught by A…
- Film Creation Workshop / Desobediencias del cine
2026 Film Creation Workshop / Desobediencias del cine — Instructor, KIMVN Teatro / Escuela Artística Intercultural KIMVN, La Ruka, Peñalolén, Santiago, Chile. Eight-session independent filmmaking workshop treating cinema as a…
- Film Clinic with Niles Atallah
2026 Film Clinic with Niles Atallah — Cineteca Nacional de Chile / Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago — Film clinic within Film Study Days: Archives and New Technologies.
- 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.
- Cinema as a Daily Practice
2026 Cinema as a Daily Practice — Instructor, Por un Cine Posible. Two-session online workshop, held in March. Exploration of cinema as a daily creative practice, working through movement, materials and experimentation.
- 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…
- The Puppet and Its Double
2025 The Puppet and Its Double — Instructor, Bellas Artes, Cali, Colombia. Workshop held 22–24 October, in collaboration with FICCALI, FAVA Bellas Artes Cali, CINETORO and Titirindeba; puppetry, chronophotography, pixilation,…
- ¿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…
- Film History and Experimental Rotoscopy Workshop
2024 Film History and Experimental Rotoscopy Workshop — Instructor, Cineteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago. Eight-session workshop, April–May, at the Cineteca film archive. Film history and early cinema; practical rotoscoping u…
- Film Clinic with Niles Atallah
2024 Film Clinic with Niles Atallah — Cineteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago — Independent public film clinic.
- 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…
- Vórtice — INVE Plataforma Experimental de Artes, Colliguay, Chile — Intervenciones en Celuloide
2023 Vórtice — INVE Plataforma Experimental de Artes, Colliguay, Chile — Intervenciones en Celuloide. Workshop Instructor. Twelve-hour workshop for 15 participants on material intervention in 35mm celluloid, including rotosco…
- Workshop Instructor
2023 Workshop Instructor — Film and Audiovisual Arts Programme, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano — Santiago. Practical film workshop for first-year students. Resulting film presented at the Cineteca Nacional in the…
- Film History and Experimental Rotoscopy Workshop
2023 Film History and Experimental Rotoscopy Workshop — Instructor, Cineteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago. Eight-session workshop, August–September, at the Cineteca film archive. Film history and hands-on experimental rotoscop…
- Collaborative Artisanal Rotoscopy
2023 Collaborative Artisanal Rotoscopy — Instructor, FECICOM, Festival de Cine Comunitario, Chile. Atallah’s second FECICOM rotoscopy workshop, following the 2021 edition. Material made in this workshop was combined with mate…
- 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…
- Archivo Shub, Colombia
2023 Archivo Shub, Colombia — Online Talk — Invited conversation hosted by Archivo Shub, the Medellín-based collective founded by Tiagx Vélez, Daniel Cortés and Tomás Campuzano. The talk reflected on the use of archives in ci…
- Alquimias Caóticas
2022 Alquimias Caóticas — Encuentro Latinoamericano de Cine de No Ficción / Corriente, Arequipa, Peru — Workshop Instructor; four-session, twelve-hour practical workshop associated with the festival’s Niles Atallah retrospect…
- 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…
- Film Factory / Fábrica CCC — Centro de Cine y Creación (CCC), Santiago
2021 Film Factory / Fábrica CCC — Centro de Cine y Creación (CCC), Santiago — Four-month project-development laboratory open to films of any genre, format, technique and stage of development. Group sessions, rotating creative…
- Analog / Artisanal Rotoscopy
2021 Analog / Artisanal Rotoscopy — FECICOM, La Reina, Santiago — Instructor. First of two FECICOM rotoscopy workshops taught by Atallah; this edition culminated in the collective film Bolero. The second FECICOM rotoscopy wor…
- Cinema as a Magical Vehicle
2021 Cinema as a Magical Vehicle — Universidad Austral de Chile — Masterclass, Facultad de Arquitectura y Artes.
- Human Rights and Cinema
2019 Human Rights and Cinema — Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago — Public conversation.
- 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…
- Ojo Chile
2019 Ojo Chile — Centro de Cine y Creación (CCC), Santiago — Founder and Director of an open artisanal-rotoscopy workshop during the social uprising, active from October 2019 into January 2020. Nearly 100 participants transfo…
- Luminous Body
2018 Luminous Body — Ceis8 / Taller Huemul, Santiago — 16mm experimental-film workshop.
- 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.
- Visiones Laterales #3
2013 Visiones Laterales #3 — Artist conversation at Cineteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago, with Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León, Juan Pablo Langlois and Nicolás Superby; presented by laFuga and supported by CEDOC Artes Visuales…
- YPACT / PACT Project and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, United States
2005, 2006 YPACT / PACT Project and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, United States — Instructor of two intensive four-week documentary workshops for young people: How I View (2005) and Our Voices (2006). Filmmaking and p…
- Universidad Diego Portales / Fósfora, Santiago, Chile
2026 Universidad Diego Portales / Fósfora, Santiago, Chile — Organized screenings and encounters with Filmmakers Pablo Martín Weber and Celeste Rojas Mugica, connecting filmmakers and university students.
- Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
2020 Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile — Organized screenings and online encounters with Filmmakers Ben Rivers and Scott Barley in the UK, connecting filmmakers and university students.
- Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
2020 Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile — Organized cinematography workshop with Director of Photography Benjamin Echazarreta, connecting filmmakers and university students.
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago
2020 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago — Organized screenings and online encounter with Visual Artist and Animator Mariano Ramis in Argentina, connecting filmmakers and university students.
- Santiago, Chile
2015–2026 (various years) Santiago, Chile — Organized and led student visits to artists’ studios, film workshops and exhibitions as part of independent workshops and academic activities. Dates vary by course.
- 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.
- Hugo Covarrubiasand Constanza Wette
Hugo Covarrubias and Constanza Wette — Animation-studio visit and encounter with the Director and Art Director of Bestia about the making of the short film.
- Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León
Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León — Workshop/studio visits with students during the making of the feature film La casa lobo and short film Los huesos.
- Pista B
Pista B — Visits to production and animation workshops with Lucas Engel, Matías López and Francisco Visceral during the making of the short film El Tamagochi Escarlata.
- Ceis8 film collective
Ceis8 film collective — Workshop visit with Cinematographer Matías Illanes focused on 16mm and super8mm film intervention and projection.
- 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…
- Ojo Chile, Santiago
2019–2020 Ojo Chile, Santiago — Member; Founder and Director of the collective’s animation workshop at the Centro de Cine y Creación (CCC), established during the 2019 social uprising. Collective filmmaking and animation-work…