The Filmmakers
Left to right, Ray Telles and Rick Tejada-Flores
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Rick Tejada-Flores (Producer, Writer, Director)
Rick Tejada-Flores began working in television in 1969 in a
minority training program at KQED in San Francisco. He served
as Unit Manager/Production Supervisor for KNBC in Burbank, and
as Coordinating Producer for the Latino Consortium at KCET in
Los Angeles, where he created the national series PRESENTE!
His credits include "Low 'N Slow: The Art of Lowriding"
(PBS); "Go Chanting, Libre" (PBS); "ELVIA: The Fight
for Land and Liberty" (PBS/"Vistas" series);
"Jasper Johns, Ideas in Paint," and "Rivera In America"
(both PBS/"American Masters"), the latter of which
won the Best Film for TV in the National Latino Film and Video
Festival. In addition, Tejada-Flores served as producer on the
series "The Great Depression", and has directed films on
Hispanic history and culture for the Smithsonian Institution's
Museum of American History.
Raymond (Ray) Telles (Director, Writer, Producer)
Raymond (Ray) Telles has worked in television for more than
20 years on current affairs documentaries. The recipient of
three Emmy awards, Telles has produced and directed for ABC,
NBC, public television, and Spanish language television, as
well as several NEA and NEH-supported programs. Among the more
than 30 documentaries that he has produced are "Bitter Harvest"
(about the UFW); the "Frontline" special "Black Power,
Black Panthers" "Children of the Night", which won a
duPont Columbia School of Journalism Gold Baton Award, among other
awards; and "Continent On the Move," the pilot program for
the series "Americas." Previously for PBS he produced
"Green Means", a series of 25 environmental mini-documentaries.
After a year as staff producer for ABC News' "Turning Point",
Telles now continues to produce documentary segments for "Dateline
NBC". He is currently producing and directing a three-hour
series on juvenile justice for PBS.
The Narrator
Henry Darrow (Narrator)
Henry Darrow is an Emmy award-winning actor best known for his
portrayal of Manolito Mantoya on "High Chaparral," a
long-running western series. A former member of the Board of
Directors of the Screen Actor's Guild, and member of that
organization's Ethnic Minorities Committee, as well as a former
vice-president of NOSOTROS, Darrow has worked diligently to
promote a more positive image of Latinos in film and television.
Others on the Production Team
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