Allison Figueroa Rojas

Canada
Chile

Allison Acza Figueroa Rojas is a filmmaker, researcher, and curator whose work explores memory, power, and colonial legacies through a decolonial and diasporic lens. Born in Tongoy, Chile, and raised in Canada, their practice weaves together food narratives, identity politics, and relationships to homeland and family, with archival research as a central methodology.

Allison is the founder of Ratita Films, an audiovisual research-creation laboratory dedicated to working with the moving image, archives, and curatorial practices. They hold a double specialization in English Literature and Film History from Concordia University (Tiohtià:ke/Montreal) and an MA in Theory and Practice in Documentary Filmmaking from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Their films have screened at Cinema Moderne (Montreal), Zumzeig Cinema and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona), Matadero Madrid, and festivals including Fisura International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Cadence Video Poetry Festival, La Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona, DocsBarcelona, the European Observatory on Memory, and most recently they were featured in LaboCine's Archives edition 2026. In 2024, they received the Jury Prize at Montreal's Rendez-vous Vidéopoésie.

As a curator, Allison has programmed for Monday Night Tales: Global Narratives through Cinema Barcelona, La Muestra de Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo de Barcelona (2025) and MUTA Festival Internacional de Apropiación Audiovisual (Lima, 2025).

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Awards
Grand Prix Rendez-vous vidéo-poèmes
Festival de la Poésie de Montréal
Montréal
2024