Filmmaker Laura Varela shares her personal journey and the evolution of her documentary “raúlrsalinas and the Poetry of Liberation”. In this interview, Varela also divulges the impetuses that spurred her career and her goal to highlight the hitherto unknown latino poet and activist, raúlrsalinas.
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Crissy Rivas and Dave Sims provide a breadth of information about Cesar Chavez and the hitherto undocumented United Farmers Workers Movement (UFW) that he started in Texas during the 1960s. In this interview, Rivas and Sims talk about their new documentary “Voices of the UFW in Texas” and impart essential details about the UFW, the importance of women to the movement, and how conducting oral histories allowed them to augment current knowledge on the subject.
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