It's 1964 and ten-year-old Junior is in crisis: his Old World Mexican dad is loading the family's 1957 Chevy and moving the entire familia from their familiar and diverse East Side neighborhood to a new tract home in the middle-class and eerily homogeneous San Fernando Valley. Based on the author's actual life, this filmed adaptation of San Diego Repertory's stage production humorously explores the Baby Boomer's generation of "double immigrants" who first moved from their homelands to the U.S. barrios in search of opportunity -- then moved on up into the suburbs in search of color TV and the middle-class American dream. Starring Culture Clash's Ric Salinas. Written by four-time SoCal Emmy Award-winner, Cris Franco. Directed by Herbert Siguenza and Sam Woodhouse.
It's 1964 and ten-year-old Junior is in crisis: his Old World Mexican dad is loading the family's 1957 Chevy and moving the entire familia from their familiar and diverse East Side neighborhood to a new tract home in the middle-class and eerily homogeneous San Fernando Valley. Based on the author's actual life, this filmed adaptation of San Diego Repertory's stage production humorously explores the Baby Boomer's generation of "double immigrants" who first moved from their homelands to the U.S. barrios in search of opportunity -- then moved on up into the suburbs in search of color TV and the middle-class American dream. Starring Culture Clash's Ric Salinas. Written by four-time SoCal Emmy Award-winner, Cris Franco. Directed by Herbert Siguenza and Sam Woodhouse.