Please, Don’t
Bury Me Alive!

Eastside CineClub presents a screening of Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive!, the landmark Chicano feature considered the first of its kind. Released 50 years ago, the film was long believed lost; scholar Chon Noriega tracked down director Efraín Gutiérrez and relocated elements to UCLA’s Film & Television Archive, where restoration brought it back. Shot in South Texas, the film broke Mexico’s monopoly over Spanish-language theaters in the United States. Set in spring 1972 amid the Chicano Movement, it portrays a young Chicano’s dilemmas in a slice-of-barrio life. The film was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2014. Admission is free; RSVP through Eventbrite.