ARRAY brings Mexican Mother’s Day to our Creative Campus with a curated selection of provocative films showcased as part of “Cine Con Corazon: Cinema Celebrating Mothers.” Our 3PM showtime features:

CHICANA (1979) 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 U.S. 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 and farm worker leader Dolores Huerta, author and 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.

Please note: Other showtimes in the day’s program require a separate ticketed entry. Guests must RSVP and possess a ticket for each screening time to attend each of the screenings.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Sylvia Morales has directed, written, produced and edited award-winning and nationally recognized film and video work for over 30 years. She directed episodes from the three seasons of Showtime’s groundbreaking series “Resurrection Blvd,” working with actors Elizabeth Peña, Lou Gossett, Jr., Michael De Lorenzo and Esai Morales. She also wrote and directed for the Showtime series “Women: Stories of Passion.” Morales was one of the producing and writing team members for the award-winning series “Chicano! The Mexican Civil Rights Movement” for PBS.

She directed for the ACE and Emmy-nominated six-hour series “A Century of Women,” which focused on 20th century U.S. women for Turner Broadcasting. Ms. Morales headed the Latino Consortium at KCET in Los Angeles from 1981–1985. She was responsible for the programming, production and distribution of programs that aired on PBS. During her four-year tenure at KCET, Ms. Morales hosted the Latino Consortium’s weekly national series “Presente,” and produced and directed Emmy-nominated and award-winning programs.

Ms. Morales produced, directed, shot and edited the widely recognized film CHICANA in 1979. She has received the prestigious Rockefeller Fellowship Award in Media; participated in the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women; was a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts; received the VESTA Award honoring the outstanding contribution of Southern California women to the arts; and was honored with a Salute to Latinas Award for distinguished work in her field from the City of Los Angeles. She was also honored by Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional’s 20th Anniversary celebration for “Latinas in Film and Television.”