When brothers Armando and Carlos Peña set off to carry their mother’s ashes to south
Texas, their road trip turns into a quest for answers about a strangely veiled past. As they reunite with five other brothers, the two men try to piece together their family’s shattered history. Why was their mother cast out by her family? What happened to their father, who disappeared during the notorious 1954 U.S. deportation program Operation Wetback? "Calavera Highway" is a sweeping story of seven Mexican-American men grappling with the meaning of masculinity, fatherhood and a legacy of rootless beginnings. Produced in association with American Documentary | P.O.V. A co-presentation of Latino Public Broadcasting. Funded in part by Center for Asian American Media with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Broadcast Date:
Tuesday, Sep 16, 2008 at 10PM (90 minutes)
Producer/ Director/ Co-writer Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, whose previous works include Who Killed Vincent Chin? (P.O.V. 1989) and My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha.
Evangeline Griego is an award winning independent documentary producer/director. Her company, About Time Productions, produced the documentary, Paño Arte: Images from Inside and B'order Visions/Visiones Fronterizo.
Fresh on the heels of its 2007 Emmy Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking, P.O.V. returns for its 21st season with a collection of films that will enlighten, challenge and inspire. Watch a preview of our 2008 season.
