EmpoderArte Uses Film to Empower Peruvian Women By Gianna Giordani | 27 February, 2021
This article was originally published by Sounds and Colours’ partner, Latin American Bureau. You can read the original here.
Social arts organisation
EmpoderArte is run by Karoline Pelikan, LAB’s film editor and director of Cine Latino and Pelikan Pictures. Having won important funding from Peru’s Ministry of Culture, Gianna Giordani finds out more about the organisation and its plans for the future.
German-Peruvian film-maker
Karoline Pelikan sees female empowerment and creativity as the key to enriching and diversifying film-making and cultural production. As founder and cultural manager of EmpoderArte, a Peruvian-based NGO which offers a decentralised film education to women, Karoline organises and runs workshops up and down the country, mobilising hundreds of women to discover and embrace the emancipatory power of storytelling.