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Apr 20, 2020 · Luis Valdez: Cesar Chavez and theater for the people. Playwright speaks on getting involved in the farmworker movement, his early plays and the birth of El Teatro Campesino. by Robert Eliason April 20, 2020. Luis Valdez Performing (Courtesy ETC). Continued from Part One.
Mar 27, 2024 · This weekend, many will celebrate Easter around the world, and here in the United States, Sunday, March 31, is also known as Cesar Chavez Day. Today, filmmaker Luis Valdez shares his early years and friendship with Cesar, and how he went from the picket line to having three films on the National Film Registry.
May 17, 2022 · Xochitl Gomez opened up to PEOPLE about playing America Chavez in Doctor Strange 2, working with Elizabeth Olsen, and bringing more Latina representation to the screen.
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Sep 26, 2023 · Valdez also hoped to make a biopic about Cesar Chavez, whose migrant labor movement he had joined in 1965, setting up a farm workers theatre troupe. “It was getting done. But at that time in ...
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Jan 26, 2017 · Daniel Valdez (Luis’s brother) and Rose Portillo, who in 1978 portrayed Henry Reyna and Della Barrios, the young lovers at the heart of the play, this time around play Henry’s parents.
Mar 22, 2014 · Mexican actor-turned-director Diego Luna, at 34, is too young to remember much about Cesar Chavez except for television news clips of his funeral in 1993.
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Cesar Chavez is a 2014 biographical film produced and directed by Diego Luna about the life of American labor leader Cesar Chavez, who cofounded the United Farm Workers. The film stars Michael Peña as Chavez.
