Crew and Cast

Laurie Coyle | Director, Producer, Writer

Laurie Coyle is a documentary filmmaker, story consultant and writer. Her latest documentary Adios Amor aired on PBS VOCES, winning the Imagen Award as part of the series. OROZCO: Man of Fire was broadcast on primetime PBS on AMERICAN MASTERS and was nominated for the Imagen Award and National Council of La Raza ALMA Award. Laurie has worked as a writer and story consultant on over 50 documentaries, including the award-winning Hillbilly, the PBS specials Speaking in Tongues, The Slanted Screen, Life on Four Strings, Geographies of Kinship, and The Journey of the Bonesetter’s Daughter-The Making of an Opera. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Latino Public Broadcasting, San Francisco Arts Commission and Creative Work Fund, among others. She associate-produced The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle, The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It, and AMERICAN MASTERS’ Ralph Ellison: An American Journey. Before becoming a filmmaker, Laurie majored in political theory at UC Berkeley and worked as an oral historian, focusing on the untold stories of women workers.

Rick Tejada-Flores | Director, Producer, Writer

Rick Tejada-Flores is a documentary filmmaker with over 50 years of experience in film and television. He directed and produced Rivera in America and Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint for the PBS series AMERICAN MASTERS and co-produced and directed the The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle, The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It, and Race is the Place, as well as creating five films for the National Museum of American History as part of its American Encounters exhibition. His editing credits include Trimpin, the Sound of Invention; In the Image and Adios Amor. His films have screened at Sundance Film Festival and many other festivals, won numerous awards, screened at the British Museum, and aired on Channel 4 England, History en Expañol and the Sundance Channel.

ANJELICA HUSTON | NARRATOR, English version

Anjelica Huston is an American actress and director. Known for often portraying eccentric and distinctive characters, she has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and six Primetime Emmy Awards. Huston’s first major role was in Bob Rafelson's remake of the classic 1940s noir movie The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). A few years later, Huston won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as the calculating, imperious Maerose in John Huston’s film adaptation of Richard Condon's Prizzi's Honor (1985). Huston thereafter worked prolifically, including co-star billing in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987); Barry Sonnenfeld's films The Addams Family (1991-93) and Addams Family Values (1993), in which she portrayed Addams matriarch Morticia; Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); and The Life Aquatic (2004). In Stephen Frears' The Grifters (1990) her performance as Lilly, the veteran, iron-willed con artist, she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. She won the Golden Globe Award for playing Carrie Chapman Catt in Iron Jawed Angels and the Gracie Award for her portrayal of Eileen Rand in Smash (2012-13). A sentimental favorite is her performance as the lead in her father's final film, an adaptation of James Joyce's The Dead. Her directing credits include Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) and Agnes Browne (1999). Anjelica is the daughter of world renowned director John Huston and Russian prima ballerina Enrica Soma, and the widow of acclaimed Mexican artist Robert Graham.

DAMIÁN ALCÁZAR | VOICE OF OROZCO

Damián Alcázar is a multi-award winning actor considered one of the pillars of modern Mexican and Latin American cinema. He has participated in more than sixty films and television series, is the top recipient of the Ariel Award (Mexico’s equivalent of the Oscar) for Best Actor with 12 nominations and 8 wins; has been nominated for 30 international awards and received more than 25 awards for his career. Among his most heralded performances are as the lead for Luis Estrada’s La Ley de Herodes (1999) and La Dictadura Perfecta, one of Mexico’s 10 top grossing films; as well as The Thin Yellow Line, produced by Guillermo del Toro and nominated for 14 Ariel Awards. Damián has played central characters in several series, including Netflix’s Narcos and Tijuana, a harrowing drama about Mexico’s murdering of journalists; and Apple TV’s Acapulco, for which he received an Imagen nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2022. In American cinema Damián is known for playing central characters in John Sayles Men with Guns and Disney’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Damián’s first English-speaking role was performing the VO of José Clemente Orozco in Laurie Coyle and Rick Tejada-Flores’ OROZCO: Man of Fire. He returned to our production to do Orozco’s VO in the Spanish version, OROZCO: Hombre de Fuego.

ARCELIA RAMÍREZ | NARRATOR, Spanish version OROZCO: Hombre de Fuego

Arcelia Ramírez is one of Mexico’s most renowned actresses and the winner of multiple awards for her roles in feature films and television series, including the 2020 Best Career Actress in Telenovelas and Drama Series; a Cannes Film Festival nominee for her lead role in La Civil, the story of a mother in search of her daughter kidnapped by organized crime in northern Mexico, a film that received the Prix de Courage in the Un Certain Regard category. At La Civil’s screening at Cannes, Arcelia received an eight-minute standing ovation from the audience. Among her multiple recognitions, she was the winner of the 2000 FIPRESCI Prize and the Lleida Latin American Film Festival Award for Arturo Ripstein’s Así es la Vida (2000); 4-time nominee for Best Actress (Mejor Actuacion Feminina) for the Ariel Award (Mexico’s equivalent of the Oscar); as well as the 2001 winner of the Arial Award for Best Supporting Actress.

VICENTE FRANCO | DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Vicente Franco is a director of photography and producer/director of documentaries, dramas and public affairs programs. He was a 2003 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary and Emmy nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Daughter from Danang, winner of the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. He also won a Peabody for his Univision 14 coverage of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. Vicente co-directed/produced the LASA Silver Apple winner Cuba Va: The Challenge of the Next Generation, as well as the PBS/American Experience Summer of Love. He was cinematographer on the Oscar-nominated documentaries Crip Camp (NETFLIX); The Barber of Birmingham, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers; and Freedom On My Mind. His other cinematography credits include the PBS series Latino Americans and Latin Music US; The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Struggle; The Storm That Swept Mexico; Botany of Desire; OROZCO: Man of Fire; Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi; Don’t Stop Believin’; and The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It. Vicente originally came to the U.S. fleeing conscription into the Spanish military during the General Franco regime, and completed a Masters degree at San Francisco State University.

Ken Schneider | Editor

Ken Schneider is a Peabody-winning producer/director who has edited nearly 40 feature documentaries for PBS, HBO, Showtime, Al-Jazeera and others. Ken directs and edits in both English and Spanish. He was awarded a Peabody as Co-Producer and editor of Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa. He also edited the Oscar-nominated Regret to Inform, described by the New York Times as “unforgettable ... exquisitely filmed, edited and scored.” Ken’s editing credit films have earned multiple Emmys, a Columbia-Dupont, three Peabodys, an Indie Spirit and top awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Ken is drawn to stories of war and peace, human rights, artists, American history, contemporary social issues, and Cuba. Ken's recent directorial effort, Los Hermanos/The Brothers, inspired the great violinist Joshua Bell to write, "Expertly crafted and beautifully paced, like a great piece of music." He has taught filmmaking at NYU-Tisch, Chapman University and City College San Francisco, and lectured at SF Art Institute, University of San Francisco and Harvard. He has been a panelist for the National Endowment for Humanities, Emmys, and various film festivals. Additional editing credits include: Have You Heard From Johannesburg (Emmy winning series), The Judge (TIFF), In Football We Trust (Emmy, Sundance), OROZCO: Man of Fire, Ralph Ellison: An American Journey (AMERICAN MASTERS), Mankiller, Store Wars, School Colors (FRONTLINE), Bolinao 52 and Ancestors in the Americas.

David Conte | Composer, Arranger, Conductor

David Conte is Professor of Composition and conductor of the Conservatory Chorus at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is the composer of 4 operas, and many works for orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensembles. He specializes in choral music, and his work is in the repertories of choruses throughout the world. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Paris, where he studied with the legendary Nadia Boulanger. With Todd Boekelheide, he wrote the score for the documentary Ballets Russes, shown at the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals, and is the composer for the documentary OROZCO: Man of Fire for television.

ROBERT CONNER | VISUAL EFFECTS ARTIST

Robert Conner creates original animation and visual effects for films and museum installations, including the striking visual tableaux for OROZCO: Man of Fire, as well Jessica Yu’s award-winning Protagonist, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and screened theatrically. He also provided the graphics and visual effects for Monty Python Interactive. Conner’s work is included at the Lincoln Museum, NASA Space Museum, and Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Los Angeles.

JAMES LEBRECHT | SOUND DESIGNER

James LeBrecht has over 35 years of experience as a film and theater sound designer and mixer, author and disability rights activist. He is Co-Director and Co-Producer of Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, which won numerous awards, including the 2021 Peabody Award, Independent Spirit Award, 2020 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and an Oscar nomination for best feature documentary. Jim began his career in theater, working as the resident sound designer at the Berkeley Repertory Theater for 10 years. His film credits include The Island President, The Waiting Room, The Kill Team and Audry and Daisy. A complete list of his film credits (over 145) can be viewed at IMDb. Jim co-authored Sound and Music for the Theater: The Art and Technique of Design. Now in its 4th edition, the book is used as a textbook all over the world. Jim’s work as an activist began in high school and continued at UC, San Diego, where he helped found the Disabled Students Union. Jim is currently a board member of the Disability Education and Defense Fund, which works for the rights of the disabled through education, legislation, and litigation.

Jane Greenberg | Associate Producer

Jane Greenberg has worked on over thirty public television documentaries in various capacities, including producing Fenceline: A Company Town Divided; Co-Producer on Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek; Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno and Butte, America. Jane served as Associate Producer for the POV broadcast documentary School Prayer. She is currently directing and producing The Surrender of Waymond Hall, the redemption story of one man’s journey through the criminal justice system. After a decade on the run for armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, Waymond Hall risks life behind bars for the chance to prove himself a devoted father and principled man. Seven years of extraordinary filming and provocative home movies offer a deeply, intimate portrait of one man's dramatic journey.

Featuring
Will Barnet
Elizabeth Catlett
Carlos Fuentes
Laura González Matute
The Orozco Family
Gobin Stair
John Wilson

Executive in Charge for KERA
Sylvia Komatsu

Executive Producer
Rob Tranchin

Executive Producer for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer

Voice Coach
Joy Ellison

Production Manager
Gregorio Rocha

Scholars
Jacquelynn Baas
Susannah Glusker
Edward McCaughan
Renato González Mello
Diane Miliotes
Francis Valentine O’Connor
Victor Alejandro Sorell