Historias de Cultura: Oaxaca en Santa Cruz
While finding ways to recover after the COVID-19 pandemic, indigenous elders share how accessing traditions from their homelands in Oaxaca are a vital tool for healing not only themselves but also their communities in Santa Cruz, CA. This 3 part series explores elements of comida (food), medicina (medicine), and musicá (music), and how each of these items carry specific traditions helping to uplift throughout all aspects of life.
This series was created in partnership with Senderos with the support of Santa Cruz City Arts.
COMIDA
Episode 1 (12 min)
Food is the story of our community past, present, and future.
Learn the histories of the amazing mole dishes and tejate drink from Doña Lorenza and Maestra Fe Silva Robles. From Santiago Laxopa in northern sierras to Santa Ines Yatzeche in the central valleys of Oaxaca.

Awards:
2023 | Sonoma International Film Festival | Grand Jury Best Documentary Short Film
2023 | Idlewild International Film Festival | Best Cinematography
2023 | Stuff MX Film Festival | Best Documentary Short Film
Exhibition:
2022 | Senderos community event presented with food by Doña Lorenza
2023 | Viva el Cine with CA Film Education
2023|  San Francisco Short Film Fest | Presented by SF Indie Fest

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MEDICINA
Episode 2 (11 min)
Medicine is the story of our ancestors' gift for healing.
Rivers, herbs, fire, wind. Our ancestors have tended all elements that create our medicines. Hear from Maestro Raul Diaz and Maestra Fe Silva Robles as they honor the curanderas of Santiago Laxopa, Oaxaca and their abundant wisdom that have carried their community into healing.

Exhibition:
2023 | Viva el Cine with California Film
2023 | Watsonville Film Festival
MÚSICA
Episode 3 (10 min)
Music is the story of our creativity moving through space and time.
Music welcomes us when we are born, celebrates us as we age, and embraces us as we transition to the spirit world. Hear the beautiful journey of Maestro Raul Diaz as he shares the life of music in his village Santiago Laxopa, Oaxaca and in Santa Cruz, CA.

Exhibition:
2023 | Viva el Cine with California Film
2023 | Watsonville Film Festival
Credits:
Story - Fe Silva Robles in partnership with Senderos
Producer - Helen Aldana
Director - Megan Martinez Goltz
Director of Photography - Eugenia Rentería
Gaffer / Additional Camera - Carlos Campos
Art Department - Brenda Avila Hana and Alejandro Gutierrez
Editor - Megan Martinez Goltz
Color Grade - Paco Serrano
Graphics and Animation - Marcus Cisneros
Sound Design - Megan Martinez Goltz
Additional Footage: Emmanuel Pérez, Fe Silva Robles, Helen Aldana, Isaí Pazos, Paco Serrano
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