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Featured Film:
Day 2
(Dia 2)
Dante Cerano Bautista
(P'urhepecha)
For the past decade director Dante Cerano Bautista (P'urhepecha) has been exploring questions of cultural identity. His documentary, Day 2, about a P'urhepecha wedding, won the Best Artistic Creation Award at the 7th Festival Americano de Cine y Video de Pueblos Ind�genas in Chile in 2004. Cerano is one of the few indigenous directors in Mexico to work with fiction�Uarhicha en la Muerte (2003) is a story of love and witchcraft in a contemporary P'urhepecha 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). Cerano was a member of the jury for the 2002 Geograf�as Suaves video festival in M�rida, 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'urhepecha music. He is from Cheranatzicurin, Michoac�n.
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