Rap, Sodas y Versos / Forbidden Songs of The Earth

Week Tres (6/9-6/15)
Written By Mariano Garcia

Director: Chantal Junck

Producers: Rafael Medina Iturriaga

Philadelphia Premiere

Country of Production: Mexico

Date of Completion: 2023

Duration of Film: 14 Minutes

One song traces a pathway from oral poet and Mazatec shaman Maria Sabina's tradition to Mazatec rapper Xeti NdaJnio and Medicine woman Zara Monrroy, also a poet, rapper and dancer from the Comcaac Nation. Two stories of indigenous rappers struggling to sing in their mother tongue.

Mariano Garcia
Previous

Queer: Orgullo Familiar / Family Pride, Queer Aside
Next

Remember Us