Cruz
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PROGRAM DETAILS
Film Available to Stream
Fri, Apr 9 at 12:01 am – Sun, Apr 18 at 11:59 pm PST
Description
Cruz Sanchez, the proud patriarch of an indigenous Rarámuri clan, flees from his home high in the Mexican Sierras, forced off his tribe’s ancestral land by drug cartels and the violence they bring with them. Filmmaker Teresa Camou Guerrero, meticulously employs intimate interviews with Sanchez kin, striking cinematography, and stunning pen-and-ink animation to create an evocative portrait of a resilient family’s gradual triumph over the horrors of death and injustice.
Born and raised in Mexico, Teresa Camou Guerrero received a degree in Visual Arts and Social Sciences from Vermont’s Bennington College. She is the producer and director of animated shorts La niña que cuida las chivas and El entierro. She made her feature documentary debut with Sunú (2015), and co-directed Nahui Ollin, Sol en movimiento (2017). She is also a puppeteer who has worked with the Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont.
Film Details
Language Spanish, Rarámuri
Year 2021
Premiere World
Runtime 100
Country Mexico
Director Teresa Camou Guerrero
Producer Teresa Camou Guerrero, Jenny Mügel
Editor Lucrecia Gutiérrez Maupomé
Cinematographer Aldo Hernández
Music Camilla Uboldi