CAAM Media Fund documentary Calavera Highway premieres Sunday, May 4, 6:15 pm at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post St. at Fillmore, San Francisco
More screenings: Wed, May 7, 1 pm, Kabuki;
Thu May 8, 6:30 pm, Pacific Film Archives
Tickets – http://fest08.sffs.org, 925-866-9559; group rates available
CALAVERA HIGHWAY
a film by Renee Tajima-Peña & Evangeline Griego
edited by Johanna Demetrakas
-Best Documentary Feature at the San Diego Latino Film Festival
-National PBS broadcast on “P.O.V.,” Sept 2008
ARMANDO PEÑA, a veteran of the 1968 Chicano student walkouts, and his brother CARLOS carry their mother’s ashes back to South Texas and reunite their far-flung brothers. But the road reveals more than they bargained for. Calavera Highway traces the odyssey of two brothers as they uncover a complex story. Why their mother was an outcast, and what happened to their father who disappeared during “Operation Wetback,” the 1954 U.S. government program that deported over a million Mexican and Mexican Americans. Calavera Highway is a sweeping story of seven brothers grappling with the meaning of masculinity and fatherhood, and the nature of family ties.
