Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike is screening Thursday October 21th at 6:00pm at the The Topaz Film Festival. This festival is an extension of the Women in Film Dallas Scholastic Grant Fund, a 501c3 that provides financial support through grants and scholarships to women in the pursuit of media arts degrees and those in the productions of film, television and screen-based media. Proceeds from the festival will serve to fund the scholastic grant. Part of the Texas Shorts Block screening at the Angelika Theater in Plano.
The documentary short is made for children 8 to 14, this documentary short explores a massive victorious strike of 10,000 pecan shellers including women and children and the life of strike leader Emma Tenayuca. San Antonio singer, storyteller, and cultural worker Keli Rosa Cabunoc Romero takes three little girls on trips to Emma Tenayuca’s grave, El Rinconcito de Esperanza, and a mural painted on the side of a laundromat. Together they discover the beauty of untold but unforgotten memories of struggle and pride and the power of labor and shared liberation. The short is based loosely on the feature documentary “Strike and an Uprising (in Texas).”
Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike
Anne Lewis, Director
Producer, Laura Varela
2019 Documentary Short 13 min
