Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike is screening Sunday July 11th at 4:30pm at the 42nd Cinefestival at the historic Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio. Part of the Guardians of Memory screening 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 and a mural painted on the side of a laundromat. Together they reach and uncover 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).” Anne, Keli and Andres Monteguth (Director of Photography) will be in attendance.
Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike
Anne Lewis, Director
Producer, Laura Varela
2019 Documentary Short 13 min
Purchas tickets here.
