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Francisco Toledo is one of Mexico's most celebrated living artists, a free-spirited character who has worked in a wide range of media (among them painting, sculpture, photography and printmaking) and has won equal praise for the form and content of his work. Born in Oaxaca in 1940, Toledo's work combines elements of the political and the spiritual, but often with an iconoclastic tone, as typified by his series of paintings inspired by Franz Kafka's "Report For The Academy" (in which a monkey transforms itself into a human). Toledo's Kafka series provides a structural thread for Albino Alvarez Gomez's documentary El Informe Toledo (aka The Toledo Report), which examines the life and work of the artist, allowing him to tell his own story using his impressive skills at spinning yarns and celebrating his own life narrative. The Toledo Report received its United States premiere at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival.