THE CREATORS OF THIS FILM

Raymond Telles, Producer/Director

Telles’ thirty-five-year career in film and television includes the production of numerous documentaries and segments for PBS, ABC, NBC, National Geographic, Discovery and Univision. Among the documentaries Telles has produced and directed are:  Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer’s Journey (American Masters); The Storm that Swept Mexico; The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle; Children of the Night (Frontline); and The Peril and The Promise (episode 6 of the PBS series “Latino Americans”). Among the honors these programs have received are the Columbia DuPont, Peabody, Emmy and Alma awards. Telles is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Artist in Residence at the Center for Latino Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rick Tejada-Flores, Producer/Director

Tejada-Flores is a documentary filmmaker with over 40 years of experience in film and television. His films have appeared on PBS, cable, and in exhibits at the National Museum of American History.  Among his credits are the PBS documentaries Low ‘N Slow, the Art of Lowriding; Rivera In America; Elvia, the Fight for Land and Liberty; Jasper Johns Ideas in Paint; The Fight in the Fields, Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Struggle; The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It; Race is the Place, and Orozco Man of Fire. His editing credits include Trimpin, the Sound of Invention; Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up; In the Image, and Adios Amor. His films have been shown at Sundance and many other festivals, Channel 4 England, History en Español, the Sundance Channel, the British Museum and the Smithsonian.

Herb Ferrette, II, Editor

Herb Ferrette has been an award-winning documentary editor for over 30 years. Ferrette is a seven-time regional Emmy winner and eight-time nominee. He received National Emmy nominations for Individual Achievement in a Craft, News and Documentary/Editing and National Business & Financial Reporting, and a Regional and National Emmy Community Service Award for No Turning Back. Ferrette edited the feature documentaries Stable Life, and The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle, which premiered at Sundance and aired as a national PBS special, earning the largest Latino audience on PBS up until that moment. 

Vicente Franco, Cinematographer

Originally from Spain, Bay Area cinematographer Franco shot and co-directed Daughter from Danang, an Academy Award Nominee and winner of the Grand Prize at Sundance Film Festival. He has shot three other Academy Award Nominated films and many other documentaries.

Emiko Omori, Cinematographer 

Emiko Omori is known for her documentary films and her many cinematography credits. Her feature-length documentary Rabbit in the Moon won the Best Documentary Cinematography Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and an Emmy. One of the first camerawomen to work in news documentaries, Emiko Omori began her career at KQED in San Francisco in 1968. 

Bobby Shepard, Cinematographer

Bobby Shepard has shot over 40 prize-winning documentaries, including the series Eyes on the Prize, Brother Outsider, Marcus Garvey, The Black Press Independent Lens, American Experience and American Masters.

JON JANG, Composer

Jon Jang is a jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. He specializes in music which combines elements of jazz and Asian music, and is known for musical works exploring international as well as Asian-American social justice struggles. His recordings include Are You Chinese or Charlie Chan?; The Ballot or the Bullet? (referring to Malcolm X’s famous speech); and Tiananmen! Other compositions include Reparations Now!, and Island: the Immigrant Suite. He has performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Beijing Jazz Festival, the Royal Festival Hall in London and the Berlin Jazz Festival.

WAYNE WALLACE, Composer

Wayne Wallace Wayne Wallace is composer and trombonist, and professor of practice in jazz studies and jazz trombone at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. A seven-time Grammy nominee, he is one of the most respected exponents of African American-Latin music in the world today. He has performed with a long list of musical greats including Count Basie, John Lee Hooker, Aretha Franklin, Bobby Hutcherson, and Tito Puente — and is the founder of Patois Records.