K'ICHE' WARRIOR PRINCE

This short film reimagines Tecún, a 16th-century Indigenous warrior from Guatemala who resisted the Spanish conquest and became a symbol of national identity and resistance. Rather than portraying him as a distant historical monument, the film places Tecún within a cinematic action sequence — transforming memory into movement and legend into confrontation. The objective was to explore what happens when a historical figure is recontextualized through contemporary visual language, raising the emotional stakes beyond traditional historical retellings. The action in this piece is not fictional spectacle; it is symbolic tension. The stakes are cultural survival, identity, and continuity. By framing Tecún as an active presence rather than a static icon, the film seeks to reconnect ancestral resistance with modern audiences.