This is John Kennedy with another Postcard from Abroad from the University of Kansas.

Pixar’s Coco, the Oscar winning film about Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations, continues to charm audiences around the world. And now parts of the film are even available in Quechua, the most widely spoken indigenous language in the Americas. Although Quechua is spoken by roughly 10 million people in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, there are very few films available for schoolchildren whose first language is Quechua. So the father-and-son team of Fernando and Dylan Valencia decided to dub scenes from Coco into Quechua, including some of the film’s most beloved songs. Luckily, eight year old Dylan Valencia shared the hero Miguel’s love of music … and wasn’t chased away from the project by la chancla de la abuelita!

With thanks to Aron Muci of the KU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies for this text, this is John Kennedy – wish you were here!