Bettina Gray speaks with Luis Valdez
By: KQED, San Francisco ; producer, Lonnie Porro ; director, Steve Kotton
Contributors: Gray, Bettina, 1949-; Valdez, Luis; KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.); Films for the Humanities (Firm); KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.). Cultural Programming Department; Mexican Museum
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Interviews; Workers' theater; Mexican American theater; Migrant agricultural laborers; Mexican American dramatists; Documentary television programs; Teatro Campesino (Organization)
Other titles: Luis Valdez; Luis Valdez and El Teatro Campesino; Creative mind (Television program)
Description: Bettina Gray interviews Luis Valdez, the celebrated founder of the Teatro Campesino, the West Coast theatrical group that has given voice to the struggles of Chicano farm workers.  As a child, Valdez picked fruit alongside his father in California's fertile valleys.  In this program, he describes how he became a playwright and director and explains how his plays retrace the experience of Chicano families.
Notes: A segment from the television program: The creative mind.

Production of Cultural Programming Department, KQED.

Camera, Greg Overton ; editors, John Andreini, Theron Yeager ; theme music composed by Andrew Kulberg, Chris Michie.

Host, Bettina Gray ; Luis Valdez.

Recorded on location at the Mexican Museum, San Francisco.

DVD.