Balam Toscano Afro-mexican Documentalist originary from the Oaxacan Coasts in Mexico, Bachelor in Cinematographic Direction at the Cinematographic Capacitation Center.
Active member of the Marron Cultural Center located in El Ciruelo, Oaxaca, cradle of the fight for recognition of the black communities in Mexico.

He collaborates in the project Life in the small coast with other Afro-mexican artists were they make a fotographic and video registry of the collective memory at the Oaxacan and Guerrero coasts.
Beneficiary of the Stimulus for Audiovisual Creation in Mexico and Central America for indigenous and afro-descendant communities (ECAMC) and the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, FONCA.

He participated as a producer at the Berlin Film Festival, Berlinale 2023, in the Diversity & Inclusion of the European Film Market. He directed the fiction short film Amare (2024) filmed in 35mm where he explores the footprint of migration, art and Afro-descendant childhoods in his region. As part of a tetralogy in progress about childhoods, he directed and photographed the short documentary films, Romina and Iván (2021) and Mutsk Wuäjxtë’ (Little Foxes)