UCLA Prof Ushers In Another Latino Film Festival
The Ventura County Star has a nice marquee profile of local-boy-made-good John Ramirez. The UCLA film grad (and now teacher) has been, since 2005, the executive director of the Reel Rasquache Art & Film Festival, which takes place this weekend at the Regency 6 Academy Cinemas in Pasadena.
There are 22 films in all. But what also continues to garner attention is a colloquial element of the event’s name:
In modern times, rasquache has come to mean a salute to Latino resourcefulness, the idea of making the most from the least–or as Ramirez put it, “making something good from very little,” a concept that seems to fit the small festival well.
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