Tag: mexican american

  • Bound by Honor

    Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the “Vatos Locos”, and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence…

  • Training Day

    On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn’t what he appears.

  • A Million Miles Away

    The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.

  • Flamin’ Hot

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    The inspiring true story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin’ Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.

  • Blue Beetle

    Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab.