"First up is Cine+Mas' San Francisco Latino Film Festival (Thu/23-November 4), whose official opening night selection at the Roxie is Travis Gutierrez Senger's ASCO: Without Permission. It's a look at the East LA art collective that was fired up by the activist movements of the era to spend approximately 15 years (starting in 1972) promoting Chicano power and visibility via street theater, guerrilla film shoots, mail art, protests against Hollywood ethnic stereotyping, et al."
"With Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal onboard as executive producers, this flashback is striking-and eerily relevant today-for limning the blatant bigotry in mainstream media coverage of peaceful protests violently broken up by police as "riots" by "hoodlums." I could have done without quite so much time given over to latterday young artists creating vignettes "in the spirit" of ASCO, if only because the archival materials are so compelling."
Two Bay Area film festivals—the San Francisco Latino Film Festival and the Green Fest—offer international shorts, features, narratives and documentaries that rarely screen elsewhere in the region. The Latino festival opens with Travis Gutierrez Senger's ASCO: Without Permission, a portrait of an East LA art collective that promoted Chicano power via street theater, guerrilla film shoots, mail art and protests against Hollywood stereotyping. With Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal as executive producers, the film underscores media bigotry toward peaceful protests and supplements archival footage with latter-day artists recreating ASCO's spirit. Raymond Telles' American Agitators profiles Fred Ross Sr., whose activism informed leaders like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Another documentary feature, Norita, mixes interviews and historical material.
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