“…Certainly I would say the year that we premiered a little film called Walking On Water, with Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips, we had its world premiere. In MVFF Through the Years, Mark Fishkin responds to the question: When did you begin to feel that the Festival was really taking off? Lou Diamond Phillips plays Angel, the class cut-up for whom Escalante becomes a spiritual father. Co-producer Edward James Olmos stars in this uplifting film about dreams and hard work, and one teacher’s refusal to give up on his students. In 1982, he prepared 18 of his students to take the National Advanced Placement Calculus Test, an exam so difficult that only 2% of graduating seniors even attempt it. Jaime Escalante is a math teacher from Bolivia in a tough, Los Angeles high school which has a 50% drop out rate. Executive producer Carlos Santana lends some great music to this stirring film.” –Richard PetersonĭOLORES Q&A with Dolores Huerta, Juana Chavez, and Producer Brian Benson, moderated by Richard Peterson.Īvailable with subscription: PBS Masterpiece on AmazonĪvailable to rent or purchase: Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, iTunesĬFI FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MARK FISHKIN SELECTSĭirector: Ramón Menéndez (US, 1988) 103 min. This film portrait is an eye-opener, as we witness Huerta’s career spanning not only the labor movement, but also the fight for civil rights and the evolution of feminism, all the while raising 11 children. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century, and at age 90, she continues the fight to this day. “Among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history, Dolores Huerta was an equal partner with Cesar Chavez in co-founding the first farm workers’ unions.
RAFAEL FILM CENTER DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING RICHARD PETERSON SELECTS
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