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Despite the intense anti-Mexican sentiment pervading the country in the Depression, the era also saw the first Mexican American senators in the history of the country. Sen. Octaviano Larrazolo was elected to the U.S. senate in 1928, but he died in office three months later. [295] Sen.
499 is a 2020 Mexican-American docudrama film straddling documentary and fiction, directed by Rodrigo Reyes.The film is a creative exploration of the legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico, 500 years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
This category lists articles on films made by Mexican-American filmmakers and films which may be considered Mexican American in content—dealing with Mexican-American history, community or identity—but which may have a non-Mexican-American director.
Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America is a 2012 feature-length [1] documentary film based on the book Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, [2] written by journalist Juan González. [3] The film was directed by Peter Getzels and Eduardo López, [4] and premiered in New York and Los Angeles on September 28. [5]
Below is an incomplete list of feature films, television films or TV series which include events of the Mexican Revolution and Cristero War. This list does not include documentaries, short films. This list does not include documentaries, short films.
The movie was panned by the Filipino American National Historical Society, for diminishing the role of Filipino American agricultural workers. [14] Matt Garcia, in the Smithsonian Magazine , went further in his criticism of the movie for diminishing the role of other Mexican-American labor activists, as well as the many white volunteers and ...
Although the trio come from different cultural backgrounds—Serena is Mexican, Jane is American and Elizabeth is Mexican-American—all three are similarly in search of a new direction. Mariana Chenillo became the first female director to win an Ariel Award for Best Picture back in 2010 for the film Nora's Will. The Ariel is the Mexican ...
The Bandits/Los Bandidos is a 1967 Mexican/American international co-production starring Robert Conrad who co-wrote and co-directed the film with the producer Alfredo Zacarías. The film was shot in Mexico in 1966 during a hiatus of Conrad's The Wild Wild West television series but the film was not released in the US until May 1979. [1]