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Calavera Highway
Dir(s). Renee Tajima-Pena & Evangeline Griego - CA, USA - 87 min. http://www.calaverahighway.org/
When Armando and Carlos Pena set off to carry their mother's ashes back to the Texas borderlands and reunite their far-flung brothers, the road reveals more than they bargined for. "Calavera Highway" traces the odyssey of two brothers as they uncover their strangely veiled past. 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. This is a sweeping story of seven brothers grappling with the meaning of masculinity and fatherhood, and the nature of family ties. Thursday November 13, 2008 7:00 pm at Sano Banano |
