Dancing Earth CALIFA presents:
Roberto Fatal y gente:
Decolonial Cinema; a conversation circle of Digital Curanderas
Friday, September 16th
6:30-9:30 PT
A panel discussion about film Digital Curanderas as a case study for how to decolonize practices of filmmaking with Q & A.
Meeting ID:
854 4764 6302
Roberto Fatal Bio
Roberto Fatal is a filmmaker and storyteller. They come from Rarámuri, Tewa Pueblo, Ute, and Spanish ancestors and Mexican-American culture. Their Queer, gender fluid, Mestize/Mixed identity informs the sci-fi, apocalyptic films they make. Their work centers on humans who sit at the intersections of time, space and culture. From this unique vantage point, these characters can bridge divides, see all sides, find new paths forward and recall multiple histories long forgotten. The mixed people of Fatal’s stories can connect us deeply to an undercurrent of humanity that we often overlook in a world that is increasingly divided. Survival, intersectional identity, perseverance, love, empathy, community, connection and creation are at the heart of their characters and films. Fatal is a Sundance Indigenous Film Fellow and an Imagine Native Director's Lab feature film fellow. Their debut feature script, ELECTRIC HOMIES, was selected by GLAAD x The Black List as one of the best unproduced screenplays of 2022.
J. Andrea Amezcua Porras Bio
J. Andrea Amezcua Porras is a Queer, TwoSpirit Coahuiltecan /ChicanIndia, Mother, Culture Bearer, Intersectional Artist/ practitioner, curator and producer with over 25 years of experience in performance, organizing, facilitation, grant making/reviewing, philanthropy. They currently Freelance with individual artists on independent projects. They also CoVision as a consultant with the SF African American Art and Culture Complex Porras respectfully migrates /resides between Yelamu and Nisenan Territories (San Francisco /Sacramento CA.) Porras received a B.A. in Theatre /Dance with a focus on Cultural Anthropology from Sacramento State University. They also represented CSUS recruiting hundreds of first generation students from area high schools, and was a Peer Teaching Mentor in Ethnic, Theatre, Cultural Anthropology and Dance through the Education Opportunity Program. Porras has also studied, taught and performed as an Afro- Modern and Danza Mexika traditional dancer, predominantly co creating in ceremonia and performance spaces alike across California, and later in Mexico, Cuba Africa and NY. Porras recently transitioned out of their 5 tenure as Grants Art Specialist for the California Arts Council, where they managed a portfolio totaling approximately $7 million in funding year after year. They co-founded both Movimiento Molcajete (1997) Contemporary Indigenous Teatro & MA Series Arts (2018), a 501c3 non-profit which serves as an incubator platform for BIPOC artists — prioritizing women, Queers of color and Trans Familia.
Jennifer Koreny Bio
After working in the tech space Jenny pivoted to pursue her passion, a career in scripted TV. She’s worked in production and for the producers of Parks and Recreation, The Muppets, Will & Grace, Criminal Minds and Dave. Most recently she worked on The Mapleworth Murders as Script Coordinator with SNL & 30 Rock writers. She produced work shown at the Cannes Emerging Filmmakers Pavillion, Lincoln Center, IFC House at SXSW and was an audience award winner at Outfest. She's an advocate for filmmakers & artists utilization of Web3 and is an alum of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Her photography has exhibited at galleries in New York & LA.
ABOUT DANCING EARTH
DANCING EARTH CREATIONS dynamically activates our mission, to create contemporary dance and related arts through global indigenous and intercultural relationships centered in ecological and cultural diversity for creativity, health, and wellness.
Founded by Artistic Director Rulan Tangen, to serve a need rarely met in the USA, DEC gives hope and opportunity to Native, mixed, global Indigenous and BIPOC talent who have been largely outside the dialogue of mainstream performance because of lack of access. DEC is an organic constellation of largely self-taught dancers, composers, costumers, filmmakers, and spoken word artists.
Together, DEC artists work with community members, culture carriers, and Native elders to explore the rich diversity of ancestral heritage, contemporary identity, and intra-cultural relationship building, by collaborating on innovative ecologically themed performances. DEC’s work promotes environmental awareness, cultural diversity, and understanding between peoples through contemporary arts expressions.
“We gather as individual artists to create experimental yet elemental dances that reflect our rich cultural heritage as contemporary global peoples. We strive to embody the unique essences of cultural perspectives by creation and renewal of artistic and cultural movement rituals. Ancient and futuristic, our dances are an elemental language of bone and blood memory in motion.” - Founding Director, Rulan Tangen