Walkout (film)

Walkout (film)

Infobox Film | name =Walkout


caption = Theatrical poster
director = Edward James Olmos
producer = Moctesuma Esparza
Robert Katz
writer = Marcus DeLeon
Jordan Roberts
starring = Alexa Vega
Efren Ramirez
Michael Peña
cinematography = Donald M. Morgan
music = Rosino Serrano
editing = Michael McCusker
distributor =
released = March 18, 2006
runtime = 120 min
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0452703

"Walkout" is a 2006 Home Box Office film based on a true story of the 1968 East L.A. walkouts. It premiered March 18, 2006 on HBO.

ynopsis

Student activist and Mexican-American Paula Crisostomo (played by Alexa Vega), tired of being treated unequally, decides to take action and stage a walkout at five East Los Angeles high schools in 1968 to protest educational conditions and complain of anti-Mexican educational bias along with some 10,000 students.


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