Cesar Chavez was very warmly received during its North American Premiere at Austin’s SXSW Film where it won one of the audience awards. Director Diego Luna has done an excellent job in bringing this important and often poorly understood civil right and labor leader to life for a new generation. Michael Pena delivers his best acting performance to date as he really seems to capture the essence of Chavez.
The film is reminiscent of other films about leading social organizers such as Milk which is also set in California in about the same time period Director Diego Luna’s picture does more than recount historic events or an epic period in our nation’s history. It is more than a moving—and true—David versus Goliath story.
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Cesar Chavez the film does portray the classic battle between farm workers and one of California’s richest industries. But it also captures the personal hardships and sacrifices made by Cesar and his family, and by so many other families.
And it captures the spirit and humanity and complexity of a man who, in Cesar’s words, taught ordinary people to do extraordinary things—and in so doing inspired millions of others from all walks of life to social and political activism.
The UFW during Chavez’s tenure was committed to restricting immigration. Chavez and Dolores Huerta, cofounder and president of the UFW, fought the Bracero Program that existed from 1942 to 1964. Their opposition stemmed from their belief that the program undermined U.S. workers and exploited the migrant workers. Since the Bracero Program ensured a constant supply of cheap immigrant labor for growers, immigrants could not protest any infringement of their rights, lest they be fired and replaced