STUDIO49

BertaJottar 441W.49St.#3
DocumentaryProducer&IndependentScholar NewYorkCity,NY10019
interestedintheproductionofalternativeknowledges (917)623-7052
Havana
(53)55.11.10.20
bjottar@gmail.com

INTERDISCIPLINARYEXPERIENCE SKILLS

Documentaryproduction
Ethnographicresearch
SELECTEDBROADCASTING
Oralhistories
CENTERFORPUERTORICANSTUDIES,NewYorkCitySegments
Academicwriting
Producer
Specialty:Music&Danceof
May2015-June2016PuertoRicanVoicesSeasonI-II
theAfro-Latin@Diasporain
Musicanddancespecialist,research,scriptwriting,cinematographyand theUS,CubaandPuertoRico
editingofsegmentsforWIPRPuertoRico
VideoeditingFCX


LEUBAGE,Italy-US-CubaProducer,Script-Co-writer

2015PepinosBack!Documentary.Research,Productionandfixer
Havana,Cuba AWARDS

STARMEDIA,NewYorkCityEditing|PrincipalCinematographer 31AnnualImagenAwards
BestLocalInformational
2000-2001SegmentsaboutLatinocultureintheUS ProgramforPuertoRican
VoicesSeasonII

TELEVISA,NewYorkCityProducer|LiveBroadcastingDirector TheCynthiaJeanCohenBull
MemorialAwardfor
1999,ExpansionFinanciera.Dailynewsshowbroadcastingfourliveshowsand
AcademicExcellence.
fiveshortsegmentsfromNewYorkCityStockExchange,NASDAQ,Bolsade
DepartmentPerformance
ValoresMexicoCityandBolsaMadrid.
StudiesTISCHSchoolofthe
Arts,NewYorkUniversity.
PBS,SanDiego-EcuadorLineProducer|PrincipalCinematographer 2005

1992ZeroDegreesLatitudeexperimentaldocumentaryforNewTVSeries

LANGUAGES
COLEGIODELAFRONTERANORTE,Tijuana,MexicoProduction
Manager English/Spanish

1986TijuanaEntreDosMundos(PartI&II)historicaldocumentaries

CHANNELELEVEN,MexicoCityAssistantDirector

1985-86 FindeSemana,series23magazinelivenewsshows
1985-86ROCKS,series25live28mins.programs

1985CulturalSpots,AD&partialeditingof60one-minutespots

SELECTEDPROJECTS
2014-PRESENTIdealGlassStudio,NewYorkCityProducer|Editing.

2017VESTIPHOBIANewYorkCity|HavanaProducer|Curator.

CubanArtFactory|TallerGorriaGalleryFebruary,2017.Producingand
curatingacastandtechnicalcrewofabout50Cubannationals.The
multimediaproductionincludedawearable-artworkshopwithrecyclable
materialsleadbyfashiondesignersatTallerGorriaGallery;amultimedia
performancewithactors,dancers,modelsandmusician;ashortsand
documentaryseriesandconversatorioswithProf.AndrewRossandCuban
intellectuals,allattheCubanArtFactory.

2016-SalsaOn-Two,documentary(in-progress)NewYorkCity
Directing.

2015-CentralParkRumba,documentary(in-progress)NewYorkCity
Directing.

2009Conflict-O-Rumba:ThePersistenceofMemory,NewYorkCity|
HavanaDirecting|Camerawork|Editing.Ethnographicvideo,
interactiverumbaandmusicCDperformedbyPedritoMartinezandRomn
Daz,amongothers.

SELECTEDACADEMICPUBLISHING

RumbasDemocraticCircleintheAgeofLegalSimulacra.PerformingtheU.S.
Latin@Borderlands.Eds.PeterGarcia,ChelaSandoval,andArturoSandoval.
IndianaUniversityPress.(2012)

RumbaalaBoricua:CelebratingHybridityinCentralParkRumba.CentroJournal.
CenterforPuertoRicanStudies,HunterCollege,TheCityUniversityofNew
York.CulturalNationalismsissue.(Spring,2011)

ZeroToleranceandCentralParkRumbaCabildoPolitics.Liminalities:AJournalof
PerformanceStudies.(Vol.5,No.4,November2009)

The Acoustic Body: Rumba Guarapachanguera and Abaku Sociality in the 1990s.
Latin American Music Review/Revista de msica Latinoamericana.University
ofTexas.(Vol.30,Number1,Spring/Summer,2009):1-24

SELECTEDSCREENINGSANDVIDEOINSTALLATIONS
2014MuestraItinerantedelCaribe.Havana,Cuba

2009MuseodeArte,UniversidadNacionaldeColombia.Bogot,
Colombia

2009,2008aluCineTorontoLatinMediaFestival
 2008ArteNoEsVida:ActionsbyArtistsoftheAmericas1960-2000.
Retrospectiveshow,MuseodelBarrio,NewYorkCity
2008SanAntonioFilmFestival,Texas

2007ThePavlovianDrum.JonesHallGallery,UniversityofMemphis,
Tennessee

2004,2010Exilio.StallwallVarietyShow,MassachusettsMuseumof
ContemporaryArt,NorthAdams.Massachusetts

2003Exilio.FacultyShowWilliamsCollegeMuseumofArt,
Williamstown.Massachusetts

2001ShedhalleGallery.Zurich,Switzerland

2001Conflict-oRumba&ThePersistenceofMemory.ViennaArtsFestival,
Vienna,Austria

1999MexperimentalCinema.SolomonR.GuggenheimFoundation,New
YorkCity

1998NewYorkIIILatinAmericanFilmFestival.NewYorkCity

1995SitDownandWatchIt.ArtistSpace,NewYorkCity.

1995ImagesFes1valofIndependentFilm&Video.Toronto,Ontario

1995FronteraNorte,SanJuanCINEMAFEST.SanJuanPuertoRico

1995NewCaliforniaVideo.LongBeachMuseumofModernArt,Long
Beach,California

1995FestivalCineLatino.SanFrancisco,California

1991IfYouLiveHere.MuseumofModernArt,NewYorkCity

1991BORDERWATCHIII.WithBorderArtsWorkshop/TallerdeArte
Fronterizo.VeniceBiennale,Venice,Italy

EDUCATION

TISCHSchooloftheArts,NewYorkCityPH.D.
DepartmentofPerformanceStudies,1996-2015

Dissertation:RumbainExile:IrrationalNoise,ZeroTolerance&the
PoeticsofResistanceinCentralPark

UniversityofSanDiego,SanDiego,Ca.BA
DepartmentofCommunications,1990-93
Communications,CultureandPost-ColonialTheory