About us
Ratita Films (ACTIVE)
Ratita Films is an audio-visual laboratory dedicated to experimenting with the cinematic form. At its core, it is driven by a deep curiosity about the intersections between moving images and socio-political movements, using film and video as tools to observe, question, and challenge the world around us.
The lab explores the potential of cinema as both an art form and a means of social engagement—bridging creative expression with the urgent issues of the past, present, and future. Through research-based curatorial practices, Ratita Films investigates how moving images can shape cultural memory and collective consciousness.
Functioning as both a creative and research space, the lab focuses on film archival research, curatorial projects, experimental filmmaking, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Its work engages with historical and contemporary film materials, recontextualizing them to foreground overlooked or marginalized stories and perspectives.
Founded by filmmaker, researcher, programmer and curator Allison Figueroa Rojas
Curatorial film project; Monday Night tales: Global Narratives through Cinema (ACTIVE)
MNT is a monthly traveling film program that showcases a thoughtfully curated selection of films from around the world. Each edition features a diverse range of genres and formats—including opera primas, documentaries, non-fiction, experimental works, speculative cinema, animation, and a special section curated by invited guests.
At its core, Monday Night Tales is dedicated to connecting people and stories across borders. With a strong focus on diaspora cinema, independent and experimental film, queer cinema, documentary, and narratives rooted in everyday life, the program contributes meaningfully to an expanded understanding of global cinema and its evolving histories.
By prioritizing works from diasporic and LGBTQIA+ perspectives, the program engages with cinematic traditions that have historically existed at the margins of mainstream film discourse. These films not only challenge dominant narratives but also reframe the ways we understand identity, belonging, resistance, and cultural memory. Monday Night Tales seeks to amplify these voices and bring visibility to the complex intersections of queerness, migration, race, and community.
The program fosters collaboration with venues, sponsors, communities, and film collectives locally and internationally. We regularly invite filmmakers, crew members, and community participants to join post-screening conversations—both in person and online—to share insights into their creative processes and lived experiences. These exchanges open up space for dialogue, reflection, and critical engagement, encouraging audiences to consider the political, historical, and emotional contexts in which these films are made...
In doing so, Monday Night Tales not only showcases cinema but also acts as a living archive—mapping the shifting landscape of film history through the lens of those often excluded from its canon.