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¡Sí Se Puede!
	Yes We Can!


Filmmakers Rick Tejada-Flores & Gayanne Fietinghoff, and their daughter Circe at the UFW march on Gallo, 1975

About the filmmakers...	Rick Tejada-Flores and Gayanne Fietinghoff were working as UFW staff members at the union headquarters in La Paz in the summer of 1972, when they got a call from Arizona. Cesar Chavez had started a fast, and they were needed to help with daily activities, from running errands to sweeping the floor at night. A few days into the fast, Chavez asked them to make a film that would document the process. The result was *¡Si Se Puede!*

Rick Tejada-Flores	R I C K T E J A D A - F L O R E S began studied printmaking, moved on to photography and finally began to learn filmmaking at KQED TV. His first documentary was Si Se Puede!, created for the United Farmworkers Union in 1973. He served as the first director of the Latino Consortium, where he created the PRESENTE series. As an independent filmmaker, his credits include Low 'N Slow, The Art of Lowriding; Go Chanting, Libre; and Elvia, The Fight for Land and Liberty. He created Rivera In America; Jasper Johns, Ideas In Paint, and Orozco, Man of Fire (produced with Laurie Coyle), for the American Masters series. More recently he co-produced The Fight in the Fields, Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Struggle (with Ray Telles), Race is the Place (with Ray Telles) and The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight (with Judy Ehrlich). He also directed six films on Hispanic history and culture for the National Museum of American History, and is currently working on a film on the Tejada family history in Bolivia.

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Si Se Puede is available through Alturas Films 2600 10th Street, suite 417 Berkeley CA 94710

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