2022 | Charlie Vela | USA | 9m

Piñata People is a short documentary by South Texas filmmaker Charlie Vela. It explores the work of artist and activist Josué Ramírez. Josué deconstructs and reimagines one of The Rio Grande Valley’s most ubiquitous cultural objects: the piñata through craft and movement. He asks us to not only question how these totems come to us historically and emotionally, but also challenges us to imagine new cultural futures for these ephemeral sculptures.