Cineculture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.

"The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" (1983, new release)
When: 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20.
Where: Peters Education Center Auditorium (west of the Save Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center building)

All films screened on campus are free and open to the public. Parking is not enforced after 4 p.m. on Fridays.

Discussant: Dr. Robert Maldonado, professor of philosophy

A new release of a classic film, "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" narrates the story of Mexican-American farmer Gregorio Cortez who is forced to flee from the Texas rangers and evades a massive manhunt on horseback for days, after a heated misunderstanding leading to the death of one of their own. Renowned Edward James Olmos is the producer and the star of the film. Together with director Robert M. Young, a longtime practitioner of socially engaged realism, they created this trailblazing film which became a landmark of Chicano cinema and shed a new light on a historical event that had been enshrined in a corrido folk song. In a shifting perspective between the pursuers and the pursued, "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" is a thrilling chase movie as well as a highly-nuanced procedural that peels away the layers of prejudice and myth surrounding Cortez and uncovers the true story of an ordinary man persecuted by the law and transfigured by legend. In Spanish and English with English subtitles.

Sponsor: Center for Creativity and the Arts and Arte Américas

Coming next: "Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066" (2018)

"Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066" by Japanese-American director Jon Osaki is a documentary about false information and racial politics. It shows how the infamous Executive Order 9066 was signed and led to the mass incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. The film exposes the lies used to justify the decision and the cover-up that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Alternative Facts also examines how this miscarriage of justice parallels the current climate of fear, targeting of immigrant communities, and similar attempts to abuse the powers of the U.S. government.

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