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Jesús Salvador Treviño | |
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 Treviño at the 2013Imagen Awards | |
| Born | (1946-03-26)March 26, 1946 (age 79) El Paso, Texas, U.S. |
| Other names | Jesus Salvador Trevino, Jesus Trevino, Jesus Travino, Jesus Treviño, Jesús S. Treviño, Jesús Treviño |
| Occupations | Film director, television director |
| Years active | 1980–present[1] |
Jesús Salvador Treviño (born March 26, 1946, inEl Paso, Texas) is an Americantelevision director ofMexican descent.[2]
He is alternatively credited under a number of names:Jesus Salvador Trevino,Jesus Trevino,Jesus Travino,Jesus Treviño,Jesús S. Treviño andJesús Treviño.
Jesús Treviño began his career in film and television as astudent activist documenting the1960s Chicano civil rights struggle with asuper-8 camera. Throughout the late sixties and early seventies, he was both a participant in and a chronicler of the events and issues of that time.[3]
His nationalPBS documentaries about Latinos and the Chicano struggle includeChicano Moratorium Aftermath (1970),The Salazar Inquest (1970),América Tropical (1971),Yo Soy Chicano (1972),La Raza Unida (1972) andBirthwrite (1979).[1]
He wrote and directed the Mexican feature filmRaíces de sangre (Roots of Blood) (1979) andSeguín (1982), anAmerican Playhouse drama of theAlamo saga told from aMexican American point of view.
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As a Hollywood director, Treviño has directed a number of episodes from the television seriesResurrection Blvd.,Babylon 5,Bones,Star Trek: Voyager,seaQuest DSV,Crossing Jordan,Third Watch andStar Trek: Deep Space Nine.
He has directed two films, a feature and a documentary respectively,Raices de Sangre(Roots of Blood) (1978) andOne Out of Ten (1979). Upon finishingRaices, Treviño received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a multi-part series on Chicano history,La Historia, which was eventually halted due to defunding upon the opening years of the Reagan administration. However, one section written by Treviño himself,Seguin, survived and was released as a stand alone film by KCET—PBS, directed by Treviño, as part of theAmerican Playhouse drama series in 1982.[4][3] He has also directed episodes from over thirty other series, includingCriminal Minds,Prison Break,The O.C.,ER,Law & Order: Criminal Intent,Dawson's Creek,Chicago Hope andNYPD Blue.
Treviño is a member of theDirectors Guild of America (DGA) and served on its National Board during the 2009–2011 term as a board member.[5] As of 2015, he serves as an Alternate Board Member.[6] He was co-founder of the DGA Latino Committee[7] and has also served on the Western Council of Directors and on the DGA Negotiating Committee in 2004, 2007, 2011 and 2014. He was honored with a Lifetime Tribute at the DGA in 2009.[1]
Treviño is an author. His memoirEyewitness: A Filmmaker's Memoir of the Chicano Movement (Hispanic Civil Rights) was published in 2001.[8] The book chronicles his experiences as an activist filmmaker during the turbulent 1960s and also addresses the status of United States Latinos in the year 2000 and beyond.
His short story collections includeThe Fabulous Sinkhole and Other Stories (1995),[9]The Skyscraper That Flew (2005)[10] andReturn to Arroyo Grande (2015).
All of his books have been published byArte Público Press, a publisher that also makes their titles available direct online.
As a producer, he co-executive produced the PBS documentary series,Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (1997) and theShowtime series,Resurrection Blvd. (2000–2003).
Treviño is founder and publisher of the website latinopia.com. Latinopia is a video-oriented website on Chicano/Latino history, art, literature, music, theater, cinema and food.
Treviño has won dozens of national and international awards and recognition. Among awards of note, he won two DGA awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Shows – Daytime forCBS Schoolbreak Special episode "Gangs (#5.4)" and forLifestories: Families in Crisis episode "Power: The Eddie Matos Story". In 2002, he won twoALMA awards, one for Outstanding Director of a Television Drama or Comedy for episode "Adam 553" of seriesThird Watch (not to be confused with the TV movieThirdspace, which he also directed), and an ALMA as Co-Executive Producer ofResurrection Blvd. for Outstanding Television Series.[11]
In 1991, his film,Raíces de Sangre (Roots of Blood), was included in an anthology of the 25 Most Significant Films ofLatin American Cinema at the 36th AnnualInternational Film Festival ofValladolid, Spain.[1] In 1993, he was honored with an homage at theMontevideo International Film Festival inMontevideo, Uruguay.
... He received his second DGA Award in 1994 for theHBO Lifestories, Families in Crisis episode 'P.O.W.E.R., The Eddie Matos Story.' ... The audience got to see snippets of that work via a montage of retrospective clips from Treviño's career edited together by Armando Acevedo. ... After the discussion, Latino Committee Co-Chair A. P. Gonzalez presented Treviño with both an official proclamation from the City of Los Angeles and a gift from the Committee.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease in Hollywood, but our culture teaches us not to be squeaky wheels.
The DGA is governed by an elected National Board of Directors made up of actively working DGA members and is managed by a professional staff of 140.
Treviño, who joined the Guild in 1980, has served as a member of the DGA National Board, the Western Directors Council and is currently the Co-Chair of the DGA's Diversity Task Force. His directing credits include:Law & Order: Criminal Intent,Criminal Minds,Bones,Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, andResurrection Blvd., the first and longest-running Latino-themed dramatic series in the history of U.S. American television.
Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. Chicano movement. United States -- Ethnic relations.
{{cite book}}:|website= ignored (help)Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction. Mexican Americans. Stories: The fabulous sinkhole -- Last night of the Mariachi -- An unusual malady -- The return of Pancho Villa -- Attack of the Lowrider Zombies -- The great pyramid of Aztlán.
{{cite book}}:|website= ignored (help)Subjects: Texas -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. Texas, West -- Fiction. Manners and customs. Stories: The skyscraper that flew -- We fix anything -- Subway to the future -- Miracle on Calle Nueve -- Chronicle of an alien abduction -- Man with no name -- A boogie woogie wedding cake -- Incident on Interstate 10.
[The] 2002 NCLR ALMA Awards, 7th NCLR ALMA Awards Presentation ... show was taped at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, May 18 at 8:00 p.m. The two-hour program aired on the ABC Network on Saturday, June 1 at 8/7c.
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