My friend, Renee Tajima-Peña who produced the documentary “My Journey Home” in which i was one of the three people featured, has a new documentary out. See below…and go see…
Cheers
Andrew
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SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
“CALAVERA HIGHWAY”
PREMIERE • SUNDAY, MAY 4, 6:15 PM
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
1881 Post St. at Fillmore
Winner, Golden Gate Award
Best Television Documentary-Long Form
a film by Renee Tajima-Peña & Evangeline Griego
edited by Johanna Demetrakas
• Best Documentary Feature, San Diego Latino Film Festival •
• National PBS broadcast on “P.O.V.,” Sept 2008 •
More screenings:
Wed, May 7, 1 pm, Kabuki; Thu May 8, 6:30 pm, Pacific Film Archives.
Tickets—http://fest08.sffs.org, 925-866-9559; group rates available
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THE STORY
ARMANDO PEÑA, a veteran of the 1968 Chicano student walkouts, and his brother CARLOS carry their mother’s ashes back to South Texas and reunite their far-flung brothers. But the road reveals more than they bargained for. Calavera Highway traces the odyssey of two brothers as they uncover a complex story. Why their mother was an outcast, and what happened to their father who disappeared during “Operation Wetback,” the 1954 U.S. government program that deported over a million Mexican and Mexican Americans. Calavera Highway is a sweeping story of seven brothers grappling with the meaning of masculinity and fatherhood, and the nature of family ties.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Calavera Highway is a new production by the filmmaking team of and Renee Tajima-Peña (Who Killed Vincent Chin?, My America…or Honk if You Love Buddha.) Evangeline Griego (Sir! No Sir!, Chevolution) who recently collaborated with editor Johanna Demetrakas (Amandla!) on ‘The Mexico Story” of the acclaimed PBS series, The New Americans. Calavera Highway is executive produced by Jeff Bieber, cinematographer Jonathan Schell, sound recordist Sara Chin, composers Brian Kirk and Sharon Smith, music performances by Ry Cooder, Rene Gasca, Los Frijoles Romanticos and Hugo Arroyo. Produced in association with The American Documentary/P.O.V. (Simon Kilmurry, Executive Producer). A co-presentation of Latino Public Broadcasting (Patricia Boero, Executive Producer). Funded in part by the Center for Asian American Media with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
www.pbs.org/pov/pov2008/calaverahighway/
Contact: Renee at 323-376-3799, tajimapena@aol.com
Bilingual press, please contact Vangie, abouttyme@aol.com
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