Santa Ana TVGB: Guillermo Gómez-Peña Films

Tonight the OC Film Fiesta is pleased to scree two films featuring Guillermo Gómez-Peña, 100 Ways to Cross the Border + A Song Often Played on the Radio at TVGB MakerSpace in Santa Ana.   OC Film Fiesta is the premier cinematic celebration of the nation’s diversity and multicultural heritage.

Closing Week Progam Schedule |  Screenings at TVGB MakerSpace in Santa Ana

100 Ways To Cross the Border | Dir. Amber Bay Bemak, 84 min., 2023 | Mature Audiences
An innovative look at performance art as it relates to geography, borders, and the body. The film is created as a performance itself, often blending the lines between protagonist and director as well as what is scripted and what is improvised on screen. It follows a non-linear history of acclaimed artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s work and life, which moves from working individually to working collectively when he forms his performance troupe La Pocha Nostra, an international multi-identitied community of artists, in 1993.

A Song Often Played on the Radio | Dir. Raven Chacon & Cristobal Martinez, 20 min., 2019
A horseman searches for the mythological Cities of Cibola. Featuring Guilermo Gómez-Peña and Nacha Mendez.
In a search for the mythological Cities of Cibola, a horseman finds himself in a race against another rogue seeking the valuable metals of the New Mexican desert. Spurred by the justification of moralistic ‘dichos’, the rival explorers come to learn about what truly brought them to this land, understanding their true identities, and finding that they were only stealing from themselves. Co-Directed by Raven Chacon, 2023 MacArthur Fellow and the first Native American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.