Dolores

With intimate and unprecedented access, this film tells the story of one of the most important, yet least-known, activists in American history.

activist Dolores Huerta
Series
Independent Lens
Premiere Date
March 27, 2018
Length
120 minutes
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    2018 News and Documentary Emmy Awards-Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary
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    2018 Peabody Awards-George Foster Peabody Award
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    2017 Critics Choice Documentary Award-Best Political Documentary
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    2017 Critics Choice Documentary Award-Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary
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    2018 Movies For Grownups Awards (AARP)-Best Documentary
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    2018 FOCAL International Awards-Best Use of Footage in Factual Production
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    Director

    Peter Bratt

    Peter Bratt is an award-winning screenwriter and independent filmmaker whose first feature Follow Me Home premiered in competition at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and won the Best Feature Film Audience Award that same year at the San Francisco International Film Festival. In 2009, he and his brother Benjamin produced La Mission, a feature film shot on… Show more location in their hometown of San Francisco. The film, which Peter wrote and directed, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was the opening night film at the 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival, the 2009 New York International Latino Film Festival, and the 2009 Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles. For his work on La Mission, Peter received the prestigious Norman Lear Writer’s Award and was one of ten American independent filmmakers selected by Sundance and the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities to launch Sundance Film Forward, a program that uses film and conversation to excite and introduce a new generation to the power of story. Peter is a San Francisco Film Commissioner and a long-time consultant for the Friendship House Association of American Indians, a local non-profit serving the Bay Area’s Native population. Show less

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    The Film

    Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least-known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century — and she continues the fight to this day, at the age of 87. With intimate and unprecedented access to this intensely private mother of 11, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social change.

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