Armando Bautista García holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he studied with a scholarship from the Ford Foundation. He received support from Mexico’s National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) to write plays, short stories and screenplays in indigenous languages. Armando has been part of programs such as Cine Qua Non Lab, Berlinale Talents Script Station, and the ImagineNative Fellowship. He has written and produced short films such as El último consejo, Alma & Esperanza, and Kii nche ndutsa. He also wrote and produced the feature films Tiempo de lluvia (2018) and Itu Ninu (2023), directed by Itandehui Jansen, which screened at film festivals such as Morelia, Guadalajara, Slamdance, and Washington DC Shorts, among others, and won awards such as Best Emerging Feature at the Oaxaca Film Fest, Best Feature at the Ensenada Film Festival, and the Grand Prize at the Arizona Film Festival. Itu Ninu was awarded a distribution prize in Mexico by Benuca Films for 2025.

Armando was a participant in Cine Qua Non Lab’s 2011 Script Revision Lab with Donde descansa el cielo.

Ñuu Yuchi [co-written with Itandehui Jansen] — A young Mixtec princess seeks to avenge her late father by murdering her new husband on their wedding night. Will she succeed, or will she be discovered and sentenced to death?