I Am Joaquin (1969)

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The first picture taken as a Chicano movie is as follows. Based on the epic written by Rodolfo "Corky" Gonsales, Joaquin (1969, Luis Valdez) was produced by Raícesdesangre (Trevino, 1977) Chicano Mexican. In the early 1970's, UCLA's training served most of Cicano's filmmakers. The first Latin American media conference was held in San Antonio, Texas in 1976. In 1975, "El Chicano Film Festival" was also established (Noriega, 1993). Other festivals later appeared in New York's Latin American Film and Film Festival (1981) and Chicago's Latin American Festival (1985) in Chicago. The first generation directors consisted of Luis Valdez, Moctezuma Esparza, Jose Luis Lewis, and Jesus Salvador Trevino. Below is made up of Gregory Nava, Isaac Artenstein, Paul Espinosa, Lourdes Portillo, and so on.

Noriega began the epic of "I am Joaquin" in 1967 as a movie of his Chicano film history, which was filmed in 1969 by Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Luis Valdez, and ElTeatro Campesino. Said Noriega. The first person's independent story of Gonzalez offered their first exposures to the major people and key events in Mexico and Chicano's history to many Chikano. In the nationwide festival and farm workers' gatherings, screenings in the block, classrooms and film festivals "I am Joaquin." The movie "has entered a new era of self-determination of Chicano movies and television, and continues to be one of the most powerful Chicano filmmakers," Noriega said.