Public Programming
CINE CON CORAZÓN: CINEMA CELEBRATING MOTHERS
From aunts to grandmothers, sisters to chosen family, ARRAY honored women who nurture, uplift, and shape our communities with a Mexican Mother’s Day celebration. On this day, we curated a selection of provocative films rooted in the Chicana experience including Patricia Riggen’s LA MISMA LUNA (UNDER THE SAME MOON, 2007) and a special showcase of short form documentaries by Sylvia Morales, CHICANA (1979) with A CRUSHING LOVE (2009). LA MISMA LUNA writer and executive director Ligiah Villalobos gave a special introduction to the film and director Patricia Riggen participated in a conversation moderated by ARRAY founder Ava DuVernay.
Film Line-up
LA MISMA LUNA
[UNDER THE SAME MOON] (2007)
[UNDER THE SAME MOON] (2007)
Directed by Patricia Riggen
Single mother leaves her young son in the care of his grandmother and illegally crosses the border into the U.S. Though she hopes to eventually make a better life for herself and her son, she toils in a dead-end job as a cleaning lady in Los Angeles. When his grandmother passes away some years later, the boy begins a difficult and dangerous journey to join her.
CHICANA (1979)
shown with
A CRUSHING LOVE (2009)
shown with
A CRUSHING LOVE (2009)
Directed by Sylvia Morales
CHICANA traces the history of Chicana and Mexican women from pre-Columbian times to the present. It covers women’s role in Aztec society, their participation in the 1810 struggle for Mexican independence, their involvement in the US labor strikes in 1872, their contributions to the 1910 Mexican revolution and their leadership in contemporary civil rights causes. Using murals, engravings and historical footage, CHICANA shows how women, despite their poverty, have become an active and vocal part of the political and work life in both Mexico and the United States.
A CRUSHING LOVE, Sylvia Morales’ sequel to her groundbreaking history of Chicana women, CHICANA (1979), honors the achievements of five activist Latinas—labor organizer/farm worker leader Dolores Huerta, author/educator Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, writer/playwright/educator Cherrie Moraga, civil rights advocate Alicia Escalante, and historian/writer Martha Cotera – and considers how these single mothers managed to be parents and effect broad-based social change at the same time.
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