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Using rare historical footage, vintage musical recordings, and interviews with 88-year-old Pedro J. Gonzalez and his wife, this half-hour program chronicles Gonzalez's long and colorful life, from his early days with Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, to his career as a popular radio personality in Los Angeles in the 1930s, to the controversial court case that sent him to San Quentin Prison, a victim of the repressive forces operating against the Chicano/Mexicano community during that period.
Key Production Staff
| Producer and Writer
Associate Producer Director |
Paul Espinosa
Lorena Parlee Isaac Artenstein |
Press Release and Reviews
- Press Release En Español
- The New York Times
- The San Diego Union
- The Los Angeles Times
- Nuestro
- Chicano Cinema
- Sightlines
- Uno Más Uno (Español)
- Uno Más Uno (English)
Funding
- California Council for the Humanities
- KPBS-TV
- McDonald's Corporation (National PBS Underwriting)
Awards
- Emmy, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, San Diego Chapter, Best Documentary, 1984
- Blue Ribbon, 26th Annual American Film Festival, 1984
- Cine Golden Eagle, 1984
- Golden Mike Award, Best Documentary, Radio & TV News Association of Southern California, 1983
- Screened at INPUT 84, Charleston, South Carolina
- Top Award, National Latino Film and Video Festival, El Museo del Barrio, New York, 1985
- Screened by British Film Institute for BBC-London Theatre Festival, 1986
- Public Service Award in Communication from Nuestro Magazine, 1985
National PBS Broadcast: December 19, 1984