The Martin E. Segal Theater Center presents
Resilience
At the Segal Theatre Film and Performance Festival 2025
A film by
Juan David Padilla Vega
Screening Information
This film will be screened in-person at The Segal Centre on Thursday May 15th at 1pm and also be available to watch online on the festival website till June 8th 2025.
Please note there is limited seating available for in-person screenings at The Segal Centre, which are offered on a first-come first-serve basis. You may RSVP above to get a reminder about the Segal Film Festival in your inbox.
Country
Canada, Colombia
Language
Spanish, English, French
Running Time
70
minutes
Year of Release
2025
About The Film
About The Retrospective
Globally renowned drag, circus, performance, and dance artists share their personal stories of resilience through captivating manifestos. From a French aerialist’s life-saving journey of gender euphoria through circus to a Canadian dancer’s defiant resistance against shadeism, and a Colombian queer refugee artist’s poignant revelation of silenced asylum struggles, these inspiring artists come together to share stories that not only positively transformed their lives but also greatly impacted their communities. Blending documentary and art film, 'Resilience' captures vibrant performance manifestos born from a shared creation residency. Through visceral movement and powerful words, the film invites viewers to contemplate the beauty of human strength.
About The Artist(s)
Juan David Padilla Vega is a Canadian-Colombian transdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose versatile portfolio spans film, photography, and video installations intertwined with performing arts such as circus, dance, drag, and music. Based in Montreal, his artistic practice explores the challenges faced by visible and invisible minorities, the emergence of new diasporas, self-exploration through inherited memories, and human movement.
Among his most notable works is Resilience, a project supported by the Canada Council for the Arts (CAC) and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ). Initially conceived as a social art initiative, it evolved into his first experimental documentary feature, which had its world premiere at Montreal's International Festival of Films on Art (Le FIFA) in 2025. His latest project, the multimedia installation Titre de Voyage, debuted as a solo exhibition at the Council for the Arts in Montreal and was later showcased at the Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée during the Festival LatinArte, as well as on St-Hubert Street for Latin American Heritage Month, reaching an audience of 38,000 spectators.
Additional highlights include Betty Garcés, the Voice of the Pacific Littoral, a documentary short about Afro-Colombian opera singer Betty Garcés, and Nostos, Urniator & Dor, a multimedia art installation presented at Cali’s International Dance Biennale and the Teatro Colón Bogotá.
Get in touch with the artist(s)
and follow them on social media
SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCTION COMPANY
Insondable Studio
IG: @insondablestudio
Urniator Studio
IG: @UrniatorStudio
FB: https://www.facebook.com/urniatorstudio
SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR
Juan David Padilla Vega
IG: @juandavidpadillavega
FB: https://www.facebook.com/juandavidpadillavega
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-david-padilla-vega-4b5b301a2/
SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCER
Philippe-Alexandre Jacques
IG: @paj_philippe
FB: https://www.facebook.com/philippe.jacques.505
SOCIAL MEDIA DISTRIBUTOR
Lucía González García
IG: @luciagoga