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1 Σεπ 2017 · One of the film’s more provocative aspects is the way it links U.S. opposition to labor organizations with the legacy of slavery, linking the treatment of predominantly Mexican-American farm workers in California to the plight of African-Americans from Reconstruction to the present.
Dolores is a 2017 American documentary directed by Peter Bratt, on the life of Chicana labor union activist Dolores Huerta. It was produced by Brian Benson for PBS, with Benjamin Bratt and Alpita Patel serving as consulting producers and Carlos Santana as executive producer.
Directed by Peter Bratt. A deft and compelling documentary about one of America's premier Latino labor leaders and civil rights activists. 2017 S&P Award Winner. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. "We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for."
Co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the nation’s first farm workers’ union, and strategist of the 1965 California grape boycott, the 87-year-old Huerta is seen as a tireless lifelong champion of social justice for Latinos, migrant workers, immigrants, and women.
False accusations from foes and friends alike, of child neglect and immoral behavior — she married three times and raised 11 children — pushed Dolores out of the very union she helped create. Peter Bratt’s provocative and energizing documentary challenges an incomplete history.
With unprecedented access to this intensely private mother of 11, the film chronicles Huerta’s life, from her childhood in Stockton, California to her early years with the United Farm Workers to the headline-making grape boycott of 1965 to her role in the women’s movement in the 1970s to her continued work as a fearless activist today, in ...
21 Αυγ 2017 · Dolores opens in New York City September 1, 2017 with Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities to follow. Read more about the Sundance premiere of Dolores below:
