Amalia Córdova is the Latin American Program Manager for the National Museum of the American Indian’s Film and Video Center, where she has organized video tours, film festivals and international screenings. She has also been a panelist, moderator, selector and juror at international indigenous film festivals, including the Morelia International Film Festival and the CLACPI International Film and Video Festival of Indigenous Peoples. Córdova, who has co-directed two documentaries on indigenous art in Chile, recently produced First Voices , about the New York independent radio program First Voices Indigenous Radio , which airs on WBAI-FM. Córdova has contributed to scholarship on the history and development of indigenous media in Latin America with several publications, including essays in American Indian magazine (2010), the collection Global Indigenous Media (2008) and Cultural Survival Quarterly (2005) . She is a former trustee of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an organization that supports and encourages independent media makers, a board member of the youth media project New Children/New York and a member of the OURmedia international community media network. She was born in Santiago, Chile, and now resides in New York City.
