Video Documentary

The Dancing Chickens of Ventura Fabian is an award-winning, lively, 10 minute bilingual video with music and animation about master woodcarver Ventura Fabian and his family. In their rural village of farmers and woodcarvers, each member of the family works together to create some of the country’s most colorful and creative folk art --

the hand-carved, hand-painted wooden figures that have become one of Mexico’s most popular contemporary crafts.


The video opens a window onto the daily life this campesino/artesano family, revealing their unique

world through a combination of documentary footage, interviews, and animated musical segments of Don Ventura's colorful creations.


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