Girl, what do you want to become when you grow up? Audio-visual creation at school

Abstract

Girl, what do you want to become when you grow up? Filmmaking at school. When does the possibility of the dream of filmmaking appear in women's horizons? If contemporary school is regarded as that time and place suitable for inviting new generations to get involved in the world, it is fair to wonder: what place is given to cinema at school for the new generation of women to imagine themselves being part of the filmmaking world? Currently, in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile, teacher education programmes that introduce filmmaking experiences as a part of what happens at school have been consolidating. Watching, analysing and making cinema reflectively and creatively is a part of the knowledges that teachers (mostly women, due to the reality of a strongly feminine profession), experience as a part of their training. Teachers create stories in their courses and with their students about themselves, their places and their realities. Experiences in which they visible their lives and their territories as valuable for imagining other worlds. They put into play visualities that avoid the hegemonic perspective, in which they do not imagine themselves, not even in the ending credits.