Zaira Zarza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at Université de Montréal. She obtained her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University and holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Art History from the University of Havana. She was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta and a Cinema and Media Arts Sessional Assistant Professor at York University. As a programmer, she has worked at the Toronto (TIFF) and Cartagena (FICCI) international film festivals. She also directed the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Film Festival, Boston, 2019. Zarza published the book Caminos del cine brasileño contemporáneo (Ediciones ICAIC 2010) and founded Roots and Routes, a curatorial and archival project that promotes film and media works by Cubans in the diaspora. She currently conducts an SSHRC-funded project on documentary activism in Latin America. Other research endeavours include Latinx- Canadian cinemas and economies of Caribbean film.