Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano

The New Latin American Cinema (NCL), the most well-known cinematographic movement in the history of Latin American cinema, started to have its canon conceived during its first years. Directors and critics who worked at that time had a decisive participation in this construction, and they strongly influenced the bibliography that has been written until today. In this article, we will investigate, from the perspective that the gender is a useful historical analysis category, how, by Aletria, Belo Horizonte, ahead of print, 2019 2 whom and inside what political culture the NCL canon was engendered. We will also discuss the possibilities that were presented to male and female filmmakers at that time to influence and/or question the canon of the movement and its most important texts, and the challenge of constructing a history that would make women filmmakers visible without deleting the invisibilization processes they lived.