May 2005
 For
the past decade director Dante Cerano
Bautista (P’urhepecha) has explored questions
of cultural identity. His documentary, Día 2/Day 2,
about a P’urehepcha wedding, won the Best Artistic Creation
Award at the 7th Festival Americano de Cine y Video de Pueblos
Indígenas in Chile in 2004. Cerano is the first indigenous
filmmaker in Mexico to work in fiction—Uarhicha en la
Muerte (2003), is a story of love and witchcraft in a contemporary
Purhepecha community. In 2003 he received the Young Creators grant
given by the Mexican arts foundation Fondo Nacional de la Cultura
y de las Artes (FONCA). He was a member of the jury for the 2002
Geografías Suaves video festival in Mérida, and
spoke about indigenous media at the 2004 Festival Internacional
de Cine de Morelia in Mexico. Cerano leads youth media training
workshops through the organization Exe Video, and produces traditional
and contemporary P’urepecha music. He is from Cheranatzicurin,
Michoacán.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Dante Cerano - courtesy of EXE Video Indígena, Michoacán;
Dante Cerano
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