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The Last Conquistador, an hour-long PBS documentary produced by John Valadez and Cristina Ibarra, featuring the artist and the controversy surrounding Don Juan de Oñate was shown nationally on POVTV, July 15, 2008.
The Last Conquistador [16] About： Ibarra's first hour-long PBS documentary, created with John Valadez, and had a national broadcast on POV. [17] Synopsis: In this episode shows us a famous sculptor John Houser. His dream is to build the world's tallest bronze equestrian statue for the city of El Paso, Texas. Dirty Laundry: A Homemade Telenovela
The statue was completed in early 2006, transported in pieces on flatbed trailers to El Paso during the summer, and installed in October. The controversy over the statue prior to its installation was the subject of the documentary film The Last Conquistador, presented in 2008 as part of PBS's P.O.V. television series. [43] [44]
John Joseph Valadez (born 1966) is an American Latino documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on the Chicano and Latino experience in the United States. [1] His directed features have been nationally broadcast on PBS and CNN over the past 25 years. [2]
La Toma (Spanish: The taking) was a significant legal declaration made by Don Juan de Oñate on April 30, 1598. This event marked the formal assertion of Spanish sovereignty over the territories north of the Rio Grande, in present-day Texas, and laid the groundwork for the colonization of New Mexico.
Conquistadors (2000) is a documentary retelling of the story of the Spanish expeditions of conquest of the Americas. In this 4-part series historian Michael Wood travels in the footsteps of the Spanish expeditions, from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca , and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu .
By the mid-1510s, Spanish settlements in the New World dotted only a few of the Antilles and some mainland coast in the southern Caribbean. [1] The generally-deprived conquistadors had yet to find that which had been promised them since the earliest Columbian voyages, namely, western maritime passage to the East Indies, Amerindians to force into encomienda or enslavement, and above all ...
The Last Conquistador (2008), a PBS POV documentary about the Juan de Oñate statue controversy; I'm Not Fat...I'm Fluffy (2009), starring Gabriel Iglesias, was shot at the Plaza Theater. In The Burning Plain (2009), starring Charlize Theron, one scene was shot on second floor at Southwest General Hospital.