Dante Korinto

Director of Photography, Director, Screenwriter

Dante Korinto is a Mexican-American director and cinematographer based in Portland. Trained in filmmaking at the Centro de Arte Audiovisual in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the EICTV in Cuba. Their work combines poetic realism with a deep exploration of the human condition. A relentless observer of the sacred, the marginalized, and the unseen, Dante’s films explore indigenous spiritual traditions, transgender identity, homelessness, and mental health across diverse communities around the world. Through intimate visual storytelling, they seeks not only to document reality, but to reveal the emotional and spiritual complexity within everyday human experience. In 2025, Dante's work was recognized by UNESCO and the Spanish Government for it's world-wide positive impact against homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. in 2023 They became a grantee of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for they work empowering artists experiencing houselessness.