Mexican Directors/filmmakers

Mexican Americans are starting to be a presence in the American Culture. WE often hear a lot of our food our music and our art. Yet we really never hear much about Mexican Americans in the Film Industry when it comes to big time Celebrities or Film Directors. W are often never main characters On TV or in Hollywood Films. From my perspective as a Mexican-American I can honestly say I grew up not noting any body on TV who was Even Latino Let alone Mexican. I have compiled a list of Mexican-American Film makers. See if you can see any body that is familiar to you.

Sergio D. Acosta
Edward Carrere - movie art director
Moctezuma Esparza
Hampton Fancher
Bill Melendez - animation film director and producer[43]
Gregory Nava
Edward James Olmos
Robert Rodríguez[44]
Craig Saavedra
Luis Valdez

Someone that you might be more Familiar with is Edward James Olmos. Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated American actor and director. Some of his most memorable roles were Gaff in Blade Runner, Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver and Admiral William Adama in the Battlestar Galactica re-imagined series. If there is anybody who i admire more it would be James. He has really paved the road for many young Mexican actors and Film directors in the United States. We are the largest minority In the United States, it is about time we start seeing a presence in the main stream media. With the barriers that we face, including Racism, Classism, Latinos are a talented group of individuals with bright minds. America will soon realize that Mexican-Americans can contribute a lot to our American Culture and change up and stir what we now know was Hollywood or even smaller TV arenas. There is nothing more powerful than to have positive roll models on TV and even more powerful when they resemble you.