Synopsis:
In 1951 in the town of Edna, Texas, a field hand named Pedro Hernández murdered his employer after exchanging words at a gritty cantina. From this seemingly unremarkable small-town murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would forever change the lives and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans. A team of unknown Mexican American lawyers took the case, Hernandez v. Texas, all the way to the Supreme Court, where they successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans.

Bio: Carlos Sandoval is the co-director/producer of the highly acclaimed documentary FARMINGVILLE (Sundance Special Jury Prize, Henry Hampton Award, INPUT Selection), which opened the 2004 Season of PBS's premier documentary showcase, P.O.V.

Mr. Sandoval is a lawyer and a writer whose work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times. His play, "The Wolfman and His Wife," was a Jungle Theatre Playwrights Reading Selection. Sandoval has worked on immigration and refugee affairs as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, and as a program officer for the Twentieth Century Fund (now The Century Foundation). Of Mexican-American and Puerto Rican descent, Sandoval grew up in Southern California and is a graduate of Harvard and of the University Of Chicago School Of Law.

As a filmmaker, Carlos Sandoval has participated on numerous panels and selection committees, including the Sundance Film Festival, Latino Public Broadcasting and Tribeca All Access.

Crew:
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY: Carlos Sandoval, Peter Miller
NARRATOR: Edward James Olmos
EDITED BY: Aaron Vega
WRITTEN BY: Carlos Sandoval
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Michael Jordi Valdés
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Allen Moore
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Steven Schoenberg

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