you might be wondering, “what is a cineteca?”

A cineteca, also called a cinematheque, is an institution (e.g., archive, library, theater) dedicated to the preservation, restoration, study, and exhibition of cinema. These institutions often house extensive collections of films, documentaries, and related artifacts, offering public screenings, research, and cultural promotion of cinematic art. Some famous examples are Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City, or the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. We organize two cinetecas.

Wachale Cineteca is a community cineteca, housed in an autonomous community space, which shows monthly screenings that address the challenges which our communities immediately face, most notably, colonization.

Cine Nepantla is an educational cineteca housed in new micro-cinema space at a university which takes theores of liberation and applies it through a cinematic lens.