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Glolbal Spanish Film, UVA Arts & Sciences

Film production for Global Spanish by Art Professor Federico Cuatlacuatl. This new commission is a continuity of his transnational aesthetic oeuvre. This project will culminate in an art film which will addressing Nahua migrations specifically from Cholula, Puebla-México while also highlighting the diasporic resilience of these communities living in the United States. Migrant Nahua futurisms is the conceptual framework for this project highlighting the community’s forced self displacement while envisioning a futurity as a mode of resistance and self-preservation. Allegorically referencing the traditional and ancestral practices of Cholula Nahua communities will visually inform this project and simultaneously challenging these histories of systemic erasure and constant re-interpretations in the last 500+ years. The art film will be submitted for consideration for the 2025 Virginia Film Festival.