“Walkout” is the first major film to tell the story of the Chicano civil rights movement:

Esparza joined HBO Films and actor/director Edward James Olmos to produce a dramatic, historical film based on the true story of the Chicano student uprising in East Los Angeles in 1968, where he was among 10,000 high school students who staged walkouts to protest academic prejudice and dire school conditions.

The Los Angeles protests, widely regarded as the birth of the urban Chicano civil rights movement, spawned a generation of activists and reverberated across the United States, inspiring similar demands for change in public schools in El Paso, across Texas and New Mexico and wherever Hispanics lived.

The film, produced by Moctesuma Esparza and directed by Edward James Olmos will star Alex Vega (Spy Kids) and will air on HBO on March 18th.

Catch previews and in-depth info on HBO’s Walkout page

Via / Borderland News and HispanicTips