Perez’s nuanced, powerful film beautifully evokes the substance and spirit of Rivera’s work, and it has won international critical acclaim, including top honors at film festivals worldwide.
Perez’s 1995 film, …and the earth did not swallow him, is adapted from Tomás Rivera’s classic 1971 Chicano novel, …y no se lo tragó la tierra, and follows the lives of a South Texas family of migrant farmworkers in the 1950s. Perez’s credits as a dramatist also include Speaking of Cats, inspired by Tejana activist Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 pecan shellers strike in San Antonio. Soldierboy has been staged around the country and appears in the 1989 anthology Necessary Theater: Six Plays About the Chicano Experience. That play is based on Perez’s own personal story in San Antonio as the son of a returning U.S. Later, Perez became playwright-in-residence at El Teatro Campesino, where he wrote Soldierboy with his wife, Judith Perez. Perez began working in theater in 1974, teaming up with legendary actress Carmen Zapata to translate and adapt the Mexican play Los desarraigados (Uprooted) for American audiences. Perez is also an accomplished playwright and novelist. His films have won more than 50 awards, including three CINE Golden Eagles. Perez moved to Los Angeles in 1972 to pursue a career in the motion picture industry. in American Literature and Contemporary History from the University of Texas.
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Click HERE for a printable inventory in PDF formatīorn in San Antonio, Texas in 1941, acclaimed filmmaker Severo Perez earned his B.A.
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