Walkout (film)
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| Walkout | |
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| Directed by | Edward James Olmos |
| Produced by | Moctesuma Esparza Robert Katz |
| Written by | Marcus DeLeon Jordan Roberts |
| Starring | Alexa Vega Efren Ramirez Michael Peña |
| Music by | Rosino Serrano |
| Cinematography | Donald M. Morgan |
| Editing by | Michael McCusker |
| Release date(s) | March 18, 2006 |
| Running time | 120 min |
| Language | English |
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Walkout is a 2006 Home Box Office film based on a true story of the 1968 East L.A. walkouts. 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. It premiered March 18, 2006 on HBO.
