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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
