This article provides an overview of a digital storytelling proyecto final (final project) completed by 18 young bilingual Latinxs as part of a Spanish for "heritage/native" speakers course at a university in the U.S. Midwest. Specifically, the article charts out the move from concepto (concept) to proyecto, zooming in on key aspects of digital storytelling through a translanguaging lens, with an emphasis on how this pedagogy may serve the purpose of empowerment among language-minoritized, racialized multilinguals. This pedagogy opens the language curriculum to ways of meaning- and sense-making that support principal objectives and goals in heritage language education while promoting the handing over of decision-making to students in transformative and liberating ways. This perspective, while developed in the context of Spanish as a minoritized language in the United States, is applicable to other contexts where language teaching and learning meet sociopolitical pressures of minoritization, oppression, and the erasure of personal and collective histories.