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Latinx communities have long been left out of U.S. and Latin American histories. Latinos in the U.S often don't know their own histories because Latinx history and literature is often not part of ...

The independent film Bless Me, Ultima is based on the most widely read and best-selling novel of the Chicano literary canon, according to the film’s press kit. Written by Rudolfo Anaya and published ...

2 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 5 Revealed 3 Watch: Next On Stage Season 6 Finalists Revealed ?Latinx communities had long been left out of U.S. and Latin American histories.

Luke Ganalon's first audition for a feature film landed him a role in a beloved Chicano novel's highly anticipated adaptation. The film version of “Bless Me, Ultima,” the award-winning 1972 ...

The film adaptation of Rudolfo Anaya’s first novel, Bless Me, Ultima, has strong performances by a mostly Latino cast. The film’s also got beautiful images of nature and individual scenes of ...

Miriam Colon and Luke Ganalon star in the drama 'Bless Me, Ultima.' (Photo by Arenas Entertainment) To its credit, "Bless Me, Ultima" has a firm grasp on what kind of movie it is. A World War II-era, ...

“Why is there evil in the world?” That question and its corollaries — Where does evil come from? Why can so many create and commit it with apparent immunity? — are at the core of the film Bless Me, ...

Rudolpho Anaya's 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima is a classic of Chicano literature. The story begins for Antonio, 6, when Ultima comes to live with his New Mexico family in 1944. Ultima is called a witch ...

Univision interviews the stars of the new movie. Feb 22, 2013— -- An award-winning work of Chicano literature will have a chance to become a classic in a new medium now that it's been made into a ...

A deeply satisfying feat of storytelling, “Bless Me, Ultima” makes a difficult task look easy. It combines innocence and experience, the darkness and wonder of life, in a way that is not easy to ...

“Bless Me, Ultima,” the film based on Rudolfo Anaya’s landmark Chicano novel, is a meticulously observed time capsule, a vivid recreation of a self-contained world of Mexican-Americans in 1944 New ...