Independent Lens
Skipping Up
A successful dropout-prevention project, has generated national interest as a model for schools with significant Latino populations.
Come and Take It Day
The annual “Come and Take It Day” celebration in rural Gonzales, Texas is where revenge and double-cross erupts.
- Series
- PBS Plus Presentation
- Premiere Date
- September 1, 2002
- Length
- 60 minutes
Producer
Jim Mendiola
Jim Mendiola is an award-winning filmmaker based in San Antonio who has screened in numerous film festivals, museums, and colleges in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. His projects have been developed at the Sundance Filmmakers Lab and have been broadcast on PBS and cable television. He is completing a documentary about the Alamo.
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The Film
It’s the annual “Come and Take It Day” celebration in rural Gonzales, Texas, where revenge and double crossing will erupt when four urban Tejanos go after the fabled buried treasure of Gregorio Cortez. The legendary curse of the lost silver can still work its swift poetic justice on vendidos (“sell-outs”).
