Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A social drama featuring a young Chicano man who moves unevenly between the world of a Eastside Los Angeles gang and his private home with his mother. The film is rooted in a distinctive sense of place in East Los Angeles locations and Chicano fashion, through an Italian neorealist lens.
Guillermo Loo
Juan
Mrs. Sandate
Mother
Mando Aviles
Mario
Mario Aviles
Mando
Jessie Martinez
Gang Member
Charlie Solis
Gang Member
Charlie Castro
Boy with the Spray Gun
Thomas Torrez
Second Gang
Ralph Torrez
Second Gang
Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A social drama featuring a young Chicano man who moves unevenly between the world of a Eastside Los Angeles gang and his private home with his mother. The film is rooted in a distinctive sense of place in East Los Angeles locations and Chicano fashion, through an Italian neorealist lens.
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