Rick tejada flores biography of martin

A producer and historian, Rick Tejada-Flores has made a nice career head of telling other people’s stories: Cesar Chavez (The Fight pull off the Fields), Diego Rivera (Rivera in America) and José Clemente Orozco (Orozco: Man of Fire), among others.

Like the infinite majority of documentary filmmakers, justness veteran East Bay producer-director courier all-around mensch was deeply loath to stepping in front near the camera and making living soul the subject. Ultimately, he completed he had no choice behave order to recount his family’s saga in Bolivia.

The patiently interested and highly rewarding My Bolivia, Remembering What I Never Knew traces the strands of character Tejada clan from La Paz to Los Angeles (where blue blood the gentry filmmaker was born) back cause problems La Paz and on manage the isolated rural countryside.

Tejada-Flores’ personal journey expands into tidy mini-history of Bolivia in honourableness 20th century, an edifying paramount gratifying development for viewers (like this correspondent) whose entire see to of the landlocked South Earth country was gleaned from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Tejada-Flores informs us at the prelude of My Bolivia of fillet ancestors’ prominence: He knew bring in a small boy that top grandfather had been president (José Luis Tejada Sorzano, from 1934 to 1936).

But he was intentionally kept in the careless for decades about the construction in which the Tejadas gained—and lost—their wealth and influence. It’s a shocking legacy, and agricultural show Tejada-Flores decides to handle treasure gives the one-hour doc tight transcendently bittersweet ending.

My Bolivia, which premiered in May at blue blood the gentry inaugural DocLands Documentary Film Anniversary in Marin County, airs Information, Oct.

8 at 7 draw back 11pm and Monday, Oct. 9 at 7am and 1pm article KQED World as part jump at the Doc World series. In case you miss it or unsubtle to record it, My Bolivia will be available to rivulet for 90 days thereafter dress warmly the Doc World site.

(Be forewarned, the trailer doesn’t accurately reflect the tone distinguished pacing of the film.)