Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People)
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While working the land in 1964, a Zapotec boy named Cándido discovered a stone-carved deity that was subsequently taken from him to be exhibited in the country’s capital. Sixty years later, Tá Cándido, along with Carlos and Edith, seeks to recover the deity and protect his ancestral legacy.
Thank you to our screening partners: Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival, Save Our Ancestors/InDigenous Education
Directors Spotlight
Jorge Ángel Pérez
Director
Born in the Zapotec community of Guia’bedzi (San Juan Jaltepec, Yaveo, Oaxaca) in 1989, Jorge Ángel Pérez has actively collaborated with civil society organizations, focusing on audiovisual production and training for indigenous communities in Mexico. He currently collaborates with the production company La Cachimba Audiovisual.
- Year
- 2024
- Runtime
- 75 minutes
- Country
- Mexico
- Language
- Diidxaza' (Zapotec of Isthmus), Spanish
- Director
- Jorge Ángel Pérez
- Producer
- Itzel Sacnité, Jorge Ángel Pérez, Yamurith Gallegos
- Co Producer
- Guiel Guio’o (Maíz de lluvia), La Cachimba Audiovisual
- Cast
- Cándido Toledo López, Carlos Daniel Toledo Ruíz, Edith del Socorro Guerra Vásquez
- Cinematographer
- Pablo García Morales
- Editor
- Armando De La Cruz
- Animator
- Carlos Gamboa, Gabriel Armengol, Piwi Galan
- Composer
- Ghalo Mexía, Roi Martínez Herrera
- Sound Design
- Diego Navarro, Thomas Becka
- Premiere
- United States