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Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

How Raúl Juliá Influenced Esai Morales

Esai Morales looks back at the legacy of his friend and co-star Raúl Juliá, and discusses what made him acting and the energy he had as a performer.

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Rosie Perez by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

The Women's List

Rosie Perez: Roles for Women of Color

Rosie Perez is an Oscar-nominated actress who starred in such films as White Men Can’t Jump, Fearless and Do the Right Thing. Perez started her performance career as a dancer and went on to choreograph music videos and the television series In Living Color. Brooklyn-born ...

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Filmmakers Yvan Iturriaga and Raymond Telles

Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey

Filmmakers Interview

Raymond Telles and Yvan Iturriaga are co-directors and co-producers of American Masters — Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer’s Journey. The filmmakers conducted an original interview with Guerrero in 2010 and used that as "the spine for telling his story," says Telles. Although they filmed on ...

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David Wright House by Pedro E. Guerrero

Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey

Photos Help Architect See a Problem

In 1952 Frank Lloyd Wright built a spiraling cement-block house in Phoenix, AZ, for his son, David. When it was complete, Pedro E. Guerrero photographed the interior and exterior. Wright was troubled by the constant circulating that he saw in the photos, but hadn't seen ...

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Pedro E. Guerrero

Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey

Biography

A spur-of-the moment decision on the part of architect Frank Lloyd Wright whisked Guerrero away almost overnight from small-town intolerance to acclaim as a photographer.

Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey

About the Film

An exclusive interview with Mexican-American photographer Pedro E. Guerrero explores his life and work. He collaborated with iconic American artists of the 20th century -- architect Frank Lloyd Wright and sculptors Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson -- and became one of the most sought-after photographers ...

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The Boomer List

John Leguizamo on the Limited Roles for Latino Actors

"Every audition I would go to, you know, was either for a drug dealer, a murderer, or a janitor. It'd be me, Benicio del Toro, Luis Guzmán, Benjamin Bratt," says an exasperated John Leguizamo in this film excerpt. The actor and comedian, acclaimed for his ...

A Fierce Green Fire

Chico Mendes and the Amazon Rainforest

In the 1980s the fate of the Amazon rainforest turned on an unlikely environmental hero: a poor rubber tapper and union organizer in Brazil named Chico Mendes (1944 - 1988).

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Cachao: Uno Mas

Sobre la Película

El bajista Israel “Cachao” López, ganador de múltiples premios Grammy, murió en Coral Gables, Florida en marzo de 2008, a la edad de casi 90 años. Un maestro legendario a nivel internacional y considerado uno de los músicos más grandes del género afro-cubano de todos ...

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