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“Stand and Deliver” free outdoor film screening & market
March 28 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm MST
by Carolyn Classen, blogger
FRIDAY, MARCH 28 AT 5:00PM
Free Admission
Free Outdoor Screening at Pueblo High School
“EVENT STARTS AT 5:00PM WITH FOOD VENDORS, STUDENT MARKET AND CAR SHOW; MOVIE STARTS AT 7:00PM
This FREE SCREENING will be held outdoors on the Pueblo High School Patio, 3500 S. 12th Avenue, Tucson, AZ, 85713. Please bring your own seating. Part of Chicano Night presented by Pueblo High School M.E.Ch.A!
Edward James Olmos stars as Jaime Escalante in this powerful, funny and inspiring true story about a determined teacher and the unmotivated East Los Angeles high school students who he inspires, badgers, threatens and humors into learning the most demanding of all math sciences – calculus. Convinced that his students, including tough guy Angel Guzman (Lou Diamond Phillips), have untapped potential, Jaime adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and transform them from no-hopers into some of the country’s top math students. But the accomplishment is so utterly fantastic that the students are accused of cheating. Given a choice to accept the allegation or retake an extremely demanding examination to prove themselves, the students decide to Stand and Deliver! Winner of six Film Independent Spirit Awards (including Best Feature, Best Director and Best Actor), Stand and Deliver also “delivered” Olmos a Best Actor Academy Award-nomination for his thrillingly charismatic performance. Co-starring Andy Garcia, Rosanna DeSoto and Vanessa Marquez. (Dir. by Ramón Menéndez, 1988, USA,103 mins., Rated PG)
This screening is part of LOFT FILM FEST ON THE ROAD, made possible by a grant from National Endowment for the Arts with support from Desert Diamond Casinos and Entertainment.“