Juanas Grammar

Created directed and edited by two of the most talented independent Latino filmmakers in Canada Juanas Grammar is an ambitious exploration of diasporic identity that literally puts the body of a new generation of transfrontera women in this country on the crosscultural epistemological battlefront Structurally complex technically daring and with a wide emotional range Awad and Lozanos striking experimental short draws freely upon a variety of global art traditions from Chico Buarques Brazilian compositions to Frida Kahlos sketches to Heiner Müllers Hamletmachine without losing sight of their immediate social political and cultural contexts Elena Feder