Heroes frequently inscribe the dominant (white) power and culture. To promote the periphery to the centre superior culture, local heroes in movies about children from various ethnic minorities are made. From the representation of what is considered villain and the trajectory Denias undergoes, we will understand the discursive formation shared through the movie Denias, Senandung di Atas Awan that produces Denias as a subject.  Denias is imposed by qualities making him a hero among his people, but the analysis on multimodality as the film language trace racial practices in this movie. Any pictorial representation seen as spectacle of others dismantle the implicit racial ideology in this child-hero story. The main issue to discuss is ethnicity which explain Denias ethnic background in relation with the dominant culture and power. The timeline Denias has from the natural area but with limited education access and facilities in his previous life to the city with its good education facilities define Denias’s struggle as a hero but at the same moment also reveal that the standards from the dominant culture are inevitably apparent and form Denias as a subject.