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Rick Tejada-Flores

Rick Tejada-Flores
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Film director, Producer
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv

American Producer/Director.
Tejada-Flores began working in television in 1969, in the newsroom at KQED (PBS affiliate in San Francisco). He went on to co-produce and co-direct ¡Si Se Puede! (winner of a CINE Golden Eagle) for the United Farm Workers of America in 1973. He served as coordinating producer for the Latino Consortium at KCET in Los Angeles, where he packaged and distributed the weekly series ¡Presente! to public television stations. In 1984, he produced Low'n' Slow, the Art of Lowriding (PBS), and in 1985, he profiled Latino poets in Go Chanting, Libre, produced for KRCB (PBS). His film Elvia, the Fight for Land and Liberty, which aired in 1988 as part of the PBS Vistas series, focused on farmworkers and land reform in Honduras. Rivera in America, a documentary on the work of Mexican artist Diego Rivera in the United States, and Jasper Johns, Ideas in Paint aired on the PBS series American Masters. Rivera in America won Best Film for TV in the National Latino Film and Video Festival.

Tejada-Flores created six interpretive films on New Mexico history and culture for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. They were featured in the American Encounters exhibition. Tejada-Flores co-produced and co-directed The Fight In The Fields: César Chávez and the Farmworkers' Struggle, which aired in 1997, and The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight it, which aired in 2002.
Source:
www.pbs.org/independentlens/raceistheplace/bios.html

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