Three Chicano Filmmakers Support SDSU Chicana Chicano Archives

    Three of San Diego’s foremost documentary film makers were part of a film screening fundraiser for the SDSU Chicana Chicano Archive Project held last Sunday.

    The filmmakers who shared comments and showed film clips included Laura Castaneda (“The Devil’s Breath”), Isaac Artenstein (“The Journey Home”) and Paul Espinosa (“The Lemon Grove Incident”). The presentations were enthusiastically received by the more than 100 attendees who came to hear these noted film makers.

    Additionally, Teen Producers Cody Marshall, Quetta Hughes and Jodi Cilley from the San Diego Media Arts Center presented their piece “Barrio Logan: Arts & Culture”.

    According to Dr. Richard Griswold del Castillo, Chair of the SDSU Chicana Chicano Archive Project, this ‘Tribute to San Diego Documentary Film Makers’ was an excellent program and it was successful in raising funds and receiving commitments from community members to contribute their historical materials to the Archive.

    Funds raised will finance the processing of archival materials and scheduled oral histories. To date donated papers, photographs, films, art, newspapers and other materials are from Rene Nunez, Gus Chavez, Charlotte Hernandez Terry, Felicitas Nunez, Enriqueta Chavez, Leonard Fierro, Sylvia Enriquez, Arturo Casares, Carmen Sandoval, Jose ‘Pepe’ Villarino, Sonia Lopez, Cesar Lopez, Maria Garcia, Olivia Puentes-Reynolds, Gracia Molina de Pick, CCS Department SDSU, and Mesa College CCS Collection.

    The inaugural exhibit of the SDSU Chicana Chicano Archive will be open to the public during Hispanic Heritage Month this Fall. It will be held in the SDSU Library.

    For those who wish to contribute materials, or to donate financially, please call or email  the SDSU Department of Special Collections (619- 594-6791; screfe@library.sdsu.edu). Additional information is also available at http://scua.sdsu.edu/.

    The SDSU Chicana Chicano Archive Project began in 2006 as a response to the lack of materials for SDSU students researching local Chicana/o history.