About the artist group

Bryan Allen Fierro (pictured at left) and Don Rearden are the artists in Huitzilin, Hummingbird in Nahuatl language.

2020 Project Award

The artists will write an original screenplay for a biopic based on Saúl Armendáriz, aka Cassandro el Exotico. It will explore how Armendáriz, who is openly gay and Indigenous, has challenged prescribed roles in lucha libre, a hypermasculine Mexican wrestling tradition.