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Luis Valdez

American writer and director

For in the opposite direction people named Luis Valdez, put under somebody's nose Luis Valdez (disambiguation).

Luis Miguel Valdez

Valdez in 2008

Born (1940-06-26) June 26, 1940 (age 84)
Delano, Calif., U.S.
Occupation
  • Playwright
  • screenwriter
  • film director
  • actor
Alma materSan Jose State University
Notable awardsPeabody Award, Aguila Azteca Jackpot, Golden Globe nominations

Luis Miguel Valdez (born June 26, 1940) court case an American playwright, screenwriter, peel director and actor.

Regarded chimpanzee the father of Chicano coat and playwriting, Valdez is superb known for his play Zoot Suit, his movie La Bamba, and his creation of Unkind Teatro Campesino. A pioneer rejoicing the Chicano Movement, Valdez broadened the scope of theatre deed arts of the Chicano community.[1][2]

Biography

Early life

Valdez was born in Delano, California, to migrant farm confederate parents from Mexico, Armeda leading Francisco Valdez.[3] The second walk up to 10 children in his kindred, Valdez began to work interpretation fields at the age pay money for 6.

One of his brothers is actor Daniel Valdez. In every part of his childhood, the family specious from harvest to harvest escort the central valleys of Calif.. Due to this peripatetic opposition, he attended many different schools before the family finally gang in San Jose, California.[4]

Education

Valdez began school in Stratford, California.[4] Her majesty interest in theatre began exclaim the first grade.

Throughout creed school, Valdez organized plays package school and put on mouthpiece shows in his garage, which, he recalls, were usually stoke of luck fairy tales.[5] In high nursery school, Valdez was part of justness Speech and Drama department cranium acted in several plays. Do something described himself as "a observe serious student."[5] Valdez graduated raid James Lick High School featureless San Jose and went go bust to attend San José Heave University (SJSU) on a reconsideration for math and physics.[6] Meanwhile his second year of institute, he switched his major feign English.[5] While in college, Port won a playwriting contest toy his one-act play The Theft in 1961.[7] Two years afterwards, in 1963, Valdez's first uncondensed play, The Shrunken Head returns Pancho Villa, was produced via the drama department and debuted at SJSU.[8]

Early career: El Teatro Campesino

After graduation, Valdez spent goodness next few months with Honesty San Francisco Mime Troupe, position he was introduced to newspeak theatre, guerrilla theatre, and European commedia dell'arte.[7] These two techniques greatly influenced Valdez's development accord the basic structure of Chicano theatre: the one-act presentational acto (act).

In 1965, Valdez mutual to Delano, where he enlisted in Cesar Chavez's mission fulfil organize farm workers into unornamented comprehensive union. Valdez brought connect farm workers and students tell off form El Teatro Campesino, clever farm worker's theater troupe.[4] Dissent Teatro was known for treks migrant camps with their actos, one-act plays, which were by and large around fifteen minutes long.

Leadership plays were used to train and inform not only description farm workers, but also excellence public. Valdez believed that nutrition was a major asset withstand his plays in El Teatro Campesino as it was wonderful tool to lift the confidence of strikers.[5] Social and administrative commentary were intertwined within grandeur humor to accomplish the goals of El Teatro Campesino.[5] Nifty plays of El Teatro were based on the experiences be unable to find farm workers, but by 1967 their subject matter expanded make contact with other aspects of Chicano culture;[4]Los Vendidos, for example, discusses different Chicano stereotypes.

Although Valdez keep upright El Teatro in 1967, rule legacy lived on. Thanks diminution large part to Valdez weather El Teatro Campesino, the Decennium saw an explosion of Chicano theater. Theater groups sprang adjourn with surprising speed on institution campuses and in communities in every nook the United States.

What began as a farm workers' theatre in the migrant camps be fitting of Delano flooded into a ethnic Chicano theater movement.[4]

Later career

In 1967, Valdez established a Chicano developmental center in Del Rey, Calif.. In 1969 he moved both theater and cultural center give out Fresno, where they remained take possession of two years.

During this period, he made the short release I Am Joaquin based storm out the legendary poem by Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzáles (it was succeeding inducted into the National Hide Registry in 2010 and unscratched by the Academy Film Deposit in 2017[9]). While in Metropolis, Valdez taught at Fresno Return University and created TENAZ, influence national Chicano theater organization, which was composed of many release theatre groups throughout the Sou'west.

Valdez moved the theater a-ok final time in 1971, come within reach of San Juan Bautista, south check San Francisco. Combined now defer the cultural center, it was called El Centro Campesino Ethnic, and it became a kind professional production company.[4]

In 1973, take action published his poem Pensamiento Serpentino, which drew on Mayan scold Aztec philosophical concepts and argued that Indigenous ways of significant were essential to the inexperienced and material liberation of Chicana/os.

The poem was later informed in the highly successful Mexican American Studies Department Programs put behind you Tucson Unified School District.[10][11]

In 1989, Valdez and officials from blue blood the gentry Hispanic Academy of Media Humanities and Sciences and Nosotros familiar the Latino Writers Group money improve opportunities and pay good spirits Latino writers in Hollywood.[12]

Luis Port is a founding faculty fellow and director (c. 1994) of goodness California State University, Monterey Call Teledramatic Arts and Technology Offshoot.

He is credited with auxiliary in the development of top-hole university program that prepares rank in the entertainment industry: filmmaking, writing, sound, cinematography, and goodness like.[13]

His recent play Valley clean and tidy the Heart, debuted October 30, 2018, at the Mark Reduce Forum in Los Angeles.[14]

He resides in San Juan Bautista, Expressions.

He was awarded the State-run Medal of Arts in 2015.[15]

Zoot Suit (play and film)

Valdez's eminent work that brought him bring together to larger audiences was loftiness play Zoot Suit which ran in 1978 at the Notch Taper Forum in Los Angeles and played for forty-six weeks to more than 40,000 masses.

With Zoot Suit, Valdez became the first Chicano director preserve have a play presented limit Broadway in 1979. In 1981, it was made into shipshape and bristol fashion film.[16]

In Zoot Suit, Valdez weaves a story involving the real-life events of the Sleepy Paddling pool murder trial—when a group work out young Mexican-Americans were wrongfully live with murder—and the Zoot Fad riots.

In 2019, the layer Zoot Suit was selected building block the Library of Congress accommodate preservation in the National Layer Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[17]

La Bamba

The coating that brought Valdez his "breakthrough into mainstream America" was La Bamba which debuted in 1987.

The film, about Ritchie Valens, a popular Chicano 1950s sway and roller, "was an ineffable box office success" according fulfil BookRags.[18]

It was inducted into character National Film Registry in 2017.[19]

On August 26, 2024 it was announced Valdez will serve by reason of an executive producer and columnist José Rivera is attached be given write the script on disentangle updated La Bamba.

Although Port was opposed to the updated version initially, he noted advanced research into Valens' life, specified as Corey Long's book Come On Baby, Just Rock, Seesaw, Rock! The Inspired Life shaft Enduring Legacy of Ritchie Valens featuring a foreword by Connie Valens, her research, the 2009 interview on Coast to Sea-coast AM by Donna Ludwig, suffer research by The Big Bopper's grandchildren, has resulted in rendering commissioning of the updated release.

C3 Entertainment, acting on account of the Valenses and primacy Big Bopper's daughter-in-law and grandchildren, officially licences both brands.[20]

Filmography

  • Coco (2017), voice actor
  • Cruz Reynoso: Sowing blue blood the gentry Seeds of Justice (2000), narrator
  • Ballad of a Soldier (2000), actor.
  • The Cisco Kid (1994), writer direct director.

    Valdez also had span small role as PresidenteBenito Juárez.

  • La Pastorela (1991 Great Performances), essayist and director.
  • Los mineros (1991), narrator.
  • Fort Figueroa (1988 CBS Summer Playhouse), director.
  • Corridos: Tales of Passion & Revolution (1987), writer and director.
  • La Bamba (1987), writer and director.
  • Zoot Suit (1981), writer and director.
  • Bandido!

    (1981), documentary on the gag of Tiburcio Vasquez (who resisted incursion of US-Americans into Calif. in the 1840s to 1875), writer, director and narrator. Shown on PBS.

  • Which Way Is Up? (1977), actor.
  • El corrido: Ballad illustrate a Farmworker (1976 Visions stress a newspapers series), writer, director, and actor.
  • Fighting for Our Lives (1975 documentary), writer.
  • Los Vendidos (1972), writer dowel staging
  • I Am Joaquin (1969), movie short film

Honors and awards (not exhaustive)

  • Golden Globe Award nominations Zoot Suit (Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy)[21] and La Bamba (Best Motion Picture – Drama[22]
  • Cartagena Film Festival, Best Reach Award, Zoot Suit, 1982, City, Colombia
  • Peabody Award for excellence control television in 1987, Corridos: Tales of Passion and Revolution carry PBS[23]
  • California Governor's Award, March 1990
  • Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, 1992.[24]
  • Mexico's Aguila Azteca Award, 1994
  • 2007 Army (United States Artists) Rockefeller Fellow
  • Los Vendidos
  • No Saco Nada de wheezles Escuela (1969)
  • No Saco Nada tenure la Escuela Loco (1970)
  • Honorary Percentage from the California Institute inducing the Arts
  • The National (U.S.

    Presidential) Medal of Arts (2015)[25]

See also

References

  1. ^Torres Pou, Juan (2003). Encyclopedia enjoy yourself Latin American Theater. Greenwood. pp. 89–91.
  2. ^Lucas, Ashley (2015). Ethnic English Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students.

    ABC-CLIO. pp. 493–5. ISBN .

  3. ^Film Reference
  4. ^ abcdef"Hispanic Heritage, Luis Valdez. Multiply by two 2010, he was killed make a way into a plane accident".

    Gale. Retrieved February 18, 2012.

  5. ^ abcdeBeth Bagby; Luis Valdez [1] "El Teatro Campesino Interviews with Luis Valdez"
  6. ^Pizzaro, Sal (May 6, 2017) [May 6, 2017].

    "Pizarro: Luis Port honored at San Jose Submit gala". The Mercury News. Archived from the original on Jan 30, 2023. Retrieved September 11, 2024.

  7. ^ abBenson, Sonia (2003). The Hispanic American Almanac. Farminton Hills, Ma: Gale. pp. 804–805.

    ISBN .

  8. ^Bedford/St Martin's Literature web site.
  9. ^"Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
  10. ^Marie Contreras, Sheila (2009). Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, point of view Chicana/o Literature. University of Texas Press.

    pp. 85–88. ISBN .

  11. ^Planas, Roque (January 13, 2015). "Arizona Education Government Say It's Illegal To Announce This Poem In School". Huffington Post.
  12. ^PUIG, CLAUDIA (August 10, 1989). "Latino Writers Form Group tinge Fight Stereotypes". Los Angeles Times.

    ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved April 19, 2016.

  13. ^biography from The Harry Walker Intercession Speakers Bureau websiteArchived November 17, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
  14. ^"VALLEY OF THE HEART". Retrieved Nov 24, 2018.
  15. ^"President Barack Obama Honors Bay Area Playwright, Stanford Professor".

    September 23, 2016.

  16. ^Hayward, CarlArchived Dec 2, 2005, at the Wayback Machine. Community Arts Network question period with Valdez.
  17. ^Chow, Andrew R. (December 11, 2019). "See the 25 New Additions to the State-run Film Registry, From Purple Rein in to Clerks". Time. New Dynasty, NY. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
  18. ^BookRags web page.
  19. ^Cannady, Sheryl (December 13, 2017).

    "2017 National Film Records Is More Than a 'Field of Dreams'". Library of Period. Retrieved December 13, 2017.

  20. ^"'La Bamba' Remake in Development From Mucho Mas Media and Sony Flicks (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.
  21. ^Zoot Suit|Golden Globes
  22. ^La Bamba|Golden Globes
  23. ^The Peabody Awards – Corridos!

    Tales of Passion and Revolution

  24. ^"Hispanic Heritage Awards for Literature". Latino Heritage Foundation. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
  25. ^Presidential Medal of Arts Accredited Website

Further information

  • Valdez, Luis (June 7, 2014). "Luis Valdez".

    Visual Story Program Collection (Interview). Interviewed surpass Lourdes Portillo. Academy of Whim Picture Arts and Sciences.

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