Jimena Aguilar

Jimena Aguilar is the Head of Digital Narratives at the ifs internationale filmschule köln, and is the co-founder and creative director of Alharaca, a Salvadorean feminist news media organization that combines journalism, arts, and new technologies to strengthen equality, diversity, and democracy in Central America. Her research interests, from both a theoretical and a practical perspective, include the topics of memory, collective creation, and feminist collective media practices. She leads seminars on the topics for masters-level students and is part of the research group “Diversity in Film and Media” for an Erasmus-funded project. Her most recent project is a geolocated-audio testimonial documentary about the massacre that happened in the historical center of San Salvador during the funeral of Archbishop Óscar Romero, whose murder is seen as the beginning of the civil war in El Salvador.