This film is a collaboration with and an homage to El Museo del Juguete Antiguo Mexicano in one of Mexico City’s most popular neighborhoods, Colonia Doctores. It houses tens of thousands of industrial-age Mexican toys. A broken Mexican doll comes to life in the basement of the museum, and searches for her identity amongst the other dolls, robots, toys and paintings in the bizarre old art Deco building. Discovering a lucha libre cape, she takes on superpowers, jumps from the rooftop, and becomes one with the barrio below.
Michal Hall Bravo Ramírez is a filmmaker and screenwriter whose work concentrates on women’s experiences of sexuality, family, gender, and contemporary culture. She studied screenwriting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and digital cinema at Cinefilias in Mexico City. She is currently writing a feature-length drama and working on producing/directing a narrative short, Keys.
Stephanie Sherman is a dancer, choreographer, scholar, teacher and bilingual poet with a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. From 2018-2019, she received a Fulbright Postdoctoral fellowship to explore the intersections of gender, blindness, and embodied movement at the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma Mexicana and with Teatro Ciego in Mexico City. In 2006, she received a Fulbright scholarship to choreograph dance-theater in Ecuador, and in 2007, she won the National Performance Network’s Red Latinoamericana’s choreographic residency in Ecuador. She has been faculty at Mexico’s prestigious Academia de la Danza Mexicana of its National Institute of Fine Arts as well as visiting professor at the renowned Universidad de las Américas Puebla.
Melissa Castro is a mexican artist intrested in dance as a visual an experiencial art with a BA in Dance from Universidad de las Américas Puebla. During her time in Puebla she was choreographer and dancer in “The Island of the Lotus Eaters”, one of the pieces created by the Chicken Bank Collective at their recidency “Permeabilidad Espontánea” in 2016. Also she performed for the playwright Xavier Villanova in “La retórica del Silencio”. In 2017, Melissa with Michelle García where choreographers of the Alejadro Ricaño‘s play “Fractales” directed by Martín Balmaceda; and in 2018 she performed at the Internacional Dance Forum: Performática with the Charles Anderson‘s piece “Secuelas”. Her piece “Sigo en ceguera” was shown at the forum: Estas no son Enchiladas in 2015 and then it was seleccted to be performed for the Internacional Dance Day Festival organized by UNAM in 2019. Now she‘s based on mexico City again where she´s been dancer in Arantza Rosas‘s “Camino“ de (2019), and in the performance “Intervención: Índigo“ by Laura Anderson Barbata Chris Walker‘s choreography (2020).
