LOCATION: CDMX

BITCH: OFF-THE-SCREEN

THE INTERVENTION

Tocaya’s Launch party was more than just a party, it was a scene from our film BITCH brought to life.

INT. CHAPEL BAR – NIGHT (CONT’D)

ONE BY ONE, around the room, the space between people’s bodies starts to melt... as if the human barrier of disconnect is removed, softly bonding like a pack.

Everyone has completely changed form and it’s almost like a spell, or virus…a dance of repeated actions that inspire more actions of DOG-LIKE BEHAVIORS… loyalty, bonding, love.

People get on their hands and knees. They lick each other, sniff each other, nuzzle cheeks. A FEW PEOPLE get anxious…the pack of the crowd pulls them in, adopting them, calming them.

This is catharsis. Calm smiles, a few barks of joy. Mimicry around the room.

A BEAT here, where people connect, genuinely, like dogs.

THE INTERVENTION

It began as a night of enchantment. Henequén hung from the ceiling, guests arrived in black tie, and ambient sound filled the air. A mood was set—but with purpose. Tocaya had planned to fracture this elegance and stage a live intervention, a scene lifted from our script BITCH, meant to jolt us from collective malaise and back into connection.

In the film, The Intervention unfolds at an exclusive party in Chapel Bar. The guests—artists, filmmakers, innovators—are numbed by detachment, scrolling on their phones, waiting for the next distraction. Then E, a nagual (Nahuatl for shapeshifter), enters with her dog B. They circle, panting, teetering between tenderness and violence. One by one, the crowd begins to mimic them—descending into a state of becoming-dog.

For Tocaya’s launch, we brought The Intervention off the page and into life.

Our generation is in crisis—suffocating under individualism, ritual-less and disembodied. BITCH was written as a reaction to that loss. The Intervention is the film’s attempt at reawakening instinct, community, and the shared animal core that binds us. By staging it in the real world, we sought to make its ideas tangible—to let performance, sound, and movement become a collective act of remembering.

On December 14th, a select group gathered on Revuelta’s rooftop in Roma Norte under the promise of “connection.” As the night unfolded, Tocaya co-founders Ambika and Monica gave a brief introduction, then vanished into the crowd. Moments later, two figures—clad head to toe in fur, designed by Inés Sawiris—emerged, sniffing through the guests. Confusion rippled; phones lifted. The performers moved with a strange rhythm, oscillating between contemporary dance and feral mimicry—traces of salsa, Bharatanatyam, and instinct.

When the music shifted, so did the energy. Three dancers—Javi Díaz, Ximena López, and Lucero Torres—activated from within the audience, joining the two in a growing pack. The choreography spread through the space like contagion. Onlookers became participants, limbs twitching, laughter breaking through hesitation. The boundaries between audience and performer dissolved.

Then, at the height of chaos, the music returned to calm. Conversation resumed, glasses clinked—but the air was charged, the illusion of separation briefly undone.

With The Intervention, Tocaya was born—not just as a film collective, but as a system for rediscovering what it means to feel, move, and belong together.

Listen to the Intervention musical score here.

CREDITS

Director:

Monica G. Carter

Writer:

Ambika Subra

Choreographer:

Javi Diaz

Costume Designer:

Ines Sawiris

Music Supervisor:

Ana Velasco

Sound Designer:

Dario AFB

Motion Graphics:

NUE

Set Designer:

Natalia Montoya

Dancers:

Ambika Subra
Monica G. Carter
Ximena Lopez
Lucero Torrez
Javi Diaz

BTS:

The Maestros
Alejandro Cruz
Renata Silva
Moises de la Cruz Rivera

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