Four days before the Noche de Rábanos, artisans, foresters and politicians gather for the radish harvest near the Tequio forest in Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán. Hundreds of thousands of visitors and residents crowd the Oaxaca de Juarez Zócalo every December 23- many waiting for hours to view the Night of the Radishes competition, which is one of the oldest traditions in Oaxaca. The documentary follows one of these "radish artisans", Oliver Mijangos Amador as he and his friends harvest, wash, carve and win the “Open Category” in the Night of the Radishes in 2023.

The Presenters:

Kapra Fleming received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she worked in photography, performance art, film and video. She has shown work in Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, Milwaukee, New York, Germany, Switzerland, France and Mexico and her work focuses on short experimental or personal documentaries: portraits of people and places she has encountered along the way.

Miguel Lopez Lemus is a multi-media artist who works in sculpting marble, alabaster, wood and steel. He works with analog and digital photography, embroidery, drawing, painting, printmaking, video and poetry. He was the founder/director of Chicago’s Latino Experimental Theater Company, Pandora Lobo Estepario Productions Press (award-winning publishing house) Chicago Atelier and El Cineasta Accidental. His work has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as public readings of his poetry. In 2016 he returned to Mexico and has established a workspace for sculpture, photography and printmaking in Oaxaca.