Raymond Telles
Producer/Director

Telles's 20-year career in film and television includes the production of numerous documentaries and news magazine segments. He has produced and directed for public and network television, including ABC's Turning Point and NBC's Dateline. His independent productions include films for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and ITVS.

Telles co-directed and produced The Fight In The Fields: César Chávez and the Farmworkers' Struggle, a feature documentary on César Chávez and the farmworkers' movement, which was in documentary competition at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. Telles has produced more than 30 documentaries, including the PBS Frontline program Children of the Night, which won a DuPont-Columbia Gold Baton Award as well as a number of other honors. For PBS, he directed In Search of Law and Order, a three-hour series on juvenile justice, which was broadcast nationally in 1999. Telles recently produced Eye on the Universe for Discovery Networks International, Miracle Babies for MSNBC Investigates and segments for Life 360 (PBS) and ABC's Nightline.

Telles has won numerous awards, including three Emmys, two PBS Programming Awards for News and Current Affairs, the Ohio State Award, an ALMA Award, a NATAS Community Service Award, top honors in the San Francisco, American Film and Video Association, Chicago, and New York film festivals and two CINE Golden Eagles. He has an M.F.A. in film from UCLA and is a member of the Writers' Guild of America and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Telles is currently an adjunct assistant professor in UC Berkeley's department of ethnic studies.

Rick Tejada-Flores
Producer/Director

Tejada-Flores began working in television in 1969, in the newsroom at KQED (PBS affiliate in San Francisco). He went on to co-produce and co-direct ¡Si Se Puede! (winner of a CINE Golden Eagle) for the United Farm Workers of America in 1973. He served as coordinating producer for the Latino Consortium at KCET in Los Angeles, where he packaged and distributed the weekly series ¡Presente! to public television stations. In 1984, he produced Low 'n' Slow, the Art of Lowriding (PBS), and in 1985, he profiled Latino poets in Go Chanting, Libre, produced for KRCB (PBS). His film Elvia, the Fight for Land and Liberty, which aired in 1988 as part of the PBS Vistas series, focused on farmworkers and land reform in Honduras. Rivera in America, a documentary on the work of Mexican artist Diego Rivera in the United States, and Jasper Johns, Ideas in Paint aired on the PBS series American Masters. Rivera in America won Best Film for TV in the National Latino Film and Video Festival.

Tejada-Flores created six interpretive films on New Mexico history and culture for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. They were featured in the American Encounters exhibition. Tejada-Flores co-produced and co-directed The Fight In The Fields: César Chávez and the Farmworkers' Struggle, which aired in 1997, and The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight it, which aired in 2002.

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