#PrecarityStory is an activist documentary inserted in the context of the 2018-2020 industrial actions in the United Kingdom. Its title references a hashtag used on Twitter by precarious academic workers to share their stories. The directors, Lorena and Isabel, made the film as precarious university workers, while researching the cinematic practices and politics of Latin American women documentary filmmakers. The main feature that this project shares with Latin American women’s practices is that the production process is based on a collaborative relation between filmmakers and film-subjects. Isabel, the main film subject, participates in the decision making, from the politics behind the film to how her character is narratively and aesthetically represented and mediated. The film challenges the traditional class identity of the academic elites and their unjustifiable nostalgia for the ivory tower. Thus, its objective is to provide the audience with an opportunity to reflect not only on the consequences of neoliberal policies in higher education in the UK but also on the issues of class, race and gender at stake in the current crisis of the institution.

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