Pepe Serna
1) The jerk
Description
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
2) American me
Description
Inspired by a true story, this is the story of a vicious Latino prison gang leader, doomed by his past to a life of harsh, unforgiving violence after his release from jail. He grows up in East Los Angeles, joins a street gang and is in prison while he is still of an age to be in high school. By the time he is back on the streets again, he is a skillful, educated criminal.
Description
This is based on the true story of the life of Pedro J. Gonzalez. As a boy of sixteen Pedro fought in the Mexican Revolution of 1910. For the next seven years he served under General Pancho Villa. Eventually he came to the United States with his wife and worked to better the lives of Mexican-Americans in California during the Depression years and to help reform the California penal system.