My Bolivia: Remembering What I Never Knew

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ABOUT THE FILM

Producer/Director : Rick Tejada-Flores

Genre: Documentary

Program Length: 60 Minutes

Broadcast Date: October 8, 2017 at 10/9c as part of the series DOC World

My Bolivia is a historic road trip to make sense of a family’s and a country’s past. A latino filmmaker travels to Bolivia to to find the things his parents told him, and what they never said — the family’s slave-owning past, his grandfather the President’s role in Latin America’s bloodiest war, the relative who was one of the leaders of the Revolution, and connections with a notorious Nazi war criminal… all a far cry from growing up in California and a life as an an activist.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Rick Tejada-Flores (Producer/Director)

Rick Tejada-Flores has made documentary films for over 40 years. They include films for PBS, the Sundance Channel, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and YLE Finland. He served as the head of the PBS Latino Program Consortium, General Manager of KALW FM in San Francisco, and Program Director for KCSM TV. His films have been widely exhibited at festival including the Sundance Film Festival, Houston Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Miami Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival and others, and have won many prizes and honors.

Among his credits are Rivera In America, Jasper Johns Ideas in Paint, and Orozco, Man of Fire for the PBS American Masters series, The Fight in the Fields, Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Struggle, The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It, and Race is the Place.