Title: NEW AMERICAN SOLDIER

Synopsis: New American Soldier follows three immigrant soldiers through the ups and downs of training and deployment, and as they take steps towards achieving U.S. citizenship.

Director: Emma Cott and Anna Belle Peevey

Title: LOS HILOS DE LA VIDA

Synopsis: This inspiring film shows Latina farmworker wives who have lives of quiet desperation in a remote California village. They attend a literacy class with a dynamic teacher who shows them how to express themselves by making story art quilts.

Director: Lee Serrie

Title: A CLASS APART

Synopsis: A CLASS APART brings to life the heroic struggle of Mexican Americans to dismantle the Jim Crow-style discrimination targeted against them. Broadcast on the prestigious PBS series, American Experience (February 23, 2009), the story is built around the landmark 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas in which an underdog band of Mexican Americans from Texas bring a case all the way to the Supreme Court – and win.

Director: Carlos Sandoval & Peter Miller