Institution: Los Medanos Community College
Position: Instructor, Teatro/Chicano Cinema
Research: Development of the Chicano heritage/culture relating to Teatro, Comedy. As well as live Teatro performances (Including UC Berkeley, Cal State Domingues Hills, UC Davis). LOCOS is an acronym for Latinos Or Chicanos Or Something. We don't deal with labels because we're all crazy in our own way.
Publications: Performances at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Cal State Dominguez Hills Some of our skits include Boys Who Wish They Could, Life After La Bamba, Geraldo Show, and our mose recent, Forest Gump meets Chewy Chicano Contributions to Salinas Chicano Cesar Chavez Library, and San Francisco's Annual Chicano Moritorium.
Other: Our skit Boyz Who Wish They Could deals with the influences of today's gangster movies on today's young Latino population, utilizing satire, comedy, and cynicism. Life After La Bamba deals with Chicano film maker Luis Valdez casting an Italian woman portraying Frida Kahlo.
Contact:Francisco M. Torres,
Los Medanos College,
2700 E.Leland Rd,
Pittsburg, CA 94565
Phone: (510) 679-1246
FAX: (510) 427-1599