The documentary 4tro El3mentos, an Equal Media production directed by Ulises Sanher, has been officially selected for Rome’s Hip Hop Cine Fest 2026, a distinction that places the film within a festival that is unique in Italy and one of only three of its kind in the world, dedicated to preserving and expanding hip hop culture through cinema. Its program stands out for bringing together stories in which hip hop does not merely accompany the narrative: it moves through it as language, identity, and a space for social dialogue. Its curatorial focus includes diversity, empowerment, Hip Hop Feminism, civic education, and cultural justice. The festival is supported by Baburka Production, a production company focused on projects with a strong social conscience.
Far from being limited to a single geography, 4tro El3mentos builds an emotional cartography of Latin American hip hop and its diaspora. The documentary brings together voices such as Audry Funk in New York, Araceli Cantora in Chile, XIMBO in Mexico, and in Colombia, figures such as DJ Avil, Spektra de la Rima, Zkirla, along with freestylers JM Serna, Lit Ignis, Rufaz, and Coloso, while also featuring Santiago Trujillo, Bogotá’s Secretary of Culture. Rather than simply listing testimonies, the film creates a dialogue among them: each presence opens another layer around identity, neighborhood, memory, resistance, and the power of hip hop within a culture that continues to find new ways to speak for itself.
Its premiere took place at the Cinemateca de Bogotá as part of the audiovisual program of Hip Hop al Parque 2025, a particularly meaningful context for a film of this nature. It was not an isolated screening, but an organic entry into one of the most powerful spaces in the movement across the region. The festival has established itself as the largest hip hop event in Latin America, while Hip Hop Cine Fest itself also identifies it as the biggest hip hop festival in the region. That framework did not simply accompany the public debut of 4tro El3mentos: it placed the film, from the very beginning, in conversation with a vibrant, demanding community deeply connected to the project’s cultural purpose.
The film also works as a natural extension of Hunters, Equal Media’s original docuseries for LatiNation / LATV Network, where music, tradition, the street, and life stories become narrative material. Along that path, LatiNation has served as a decisive window and showcase, giving visibility to content that uplifts Latin culture through docuseries, specials, music sessions, coverage, and audiovisual formats with an international vocation. 4tro El3mentos was part of the narrative closing of the first chapter of Hunters before beginning its festival run.
At the center of that vision is Ulises Sanher, whose career has been built on a consistent intersection of audiovisual direction, music supervision, and cultural management. For more than two decades, he has worked on projects that connect music, storytelling, and industry, moving naturally between documentary, music videos, curation, content production, and the building of platforms for artists and emerging scenes. Through Equal Media and Equal Music Sessions, his work has helped create space for Latin music and culture across television, media, and platforms where representation is still something that must be fought for every day. More than simply accompanying creative processes, his work has helped make them visible, connect them, and bring them into circulation.
The arrival of 4tro El3mentos at Hip Hop Cine Fest 2026 confirms something deeper than an official selection: it confirms the strength of a film that understands hip hop as a living archive, as a conversation between territories, and as one of the most honest ways to narrate the contemporary experience from Latin America. For Equal Media, for Ulises Sanher, and for the creative ecosystem that has grown around projects such as Hunters and Equal Music Sessions, this selection in Rome represents a natural next step in a trajectory committed to telling Latin culture through its own lens, with audiovisual sensitivity and a vocation to transcend borders.
