The River of Sounds

2021 | Color | 69:16

A traveling through the traditional music of Tierra Caliente in Michoacan, Mexico, and through various ways of teaching it. Experts and apprentices of the hotlander “son” show the scenery of color and sound that blooms with the "baile de tabla". The tradition finds its way by bringing to present day the echoes of its distant past.

Country: México
Direction: Oñate Chirot; Juan Carlos
Script: Oñate Chirot; Juan Carlos
Production: Molina Duarte; Dinorah Yesenia, Oñate Chirot; Juan Carlos
Photography: Cisneros; Manuel, Oñate Chirot; Juan Carlos
Sound: González; Raúl
Music: El Lindero, Maracumbé, ChanequeSon, García; Silvano, Ibarra; Serafín, Rodriguez; Río, Luna; Media, Conjunto Ajuchitlán
Art direction: Olmedo; Daniela
Participation year at FICM: 2022

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