Poli Mito

Partially based on a Venezuelan folk tale, Poli Mito (Poly Myth) is an animated tale about disobedience and independence. In the original tale, a father from the indigenous Warao tribe orders his daughters to bring light from el dueño de la luz (the keeper of the light). The name “Poli Mito'' is a response to the idea of the monomythic hero; while there can be similarities in heroic tales, this tale celebrates diversity and divergence from the status quo. This animation was screened in Miami at the Borscht Film Festival in 2019. It was commissioned by Borscht Corp, supported by NoBroZone, a Knight Foundation grant challenge and First Generation Stories, through OneFifty, in partnership with Time-Warner.