May 2005
 For the past decade, director Dante Cerano Bautista (Purépecha) has explored questions of cultural identity. His documentary about a Purépecha wedding, Día 2/Day 2, 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 Purépecha 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 Purépecha 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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