Two Vatos Talk Pop Cultura: Latinx TV, Film, and Futures Unscripted

Frederick Luis Aldama is the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin, and founder of the Latinx Pop Lab. A multiple award–winning author and editor of over fifty books, he is an inductee of the Texas Institute of Letters and Ohio State University’s Hall of Fame.

Peter Murrieta, the recipient of the Imagen Foundation’s Norman Lear Writer’s Award and Arizona State University’s associate dean for Herberger Institute of Design and Arts–Los Angeles, as well as deputy director at ASU’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School, is a multiple Emmy winner known for series like Netflix’s Mr. Iglesias and Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place. Murrieta currently has a first-look deal with Universal and is developing an adaptation of the novel Blood and Gold: The Legend of Joaquin Murrieta, which he co-wrote with novelist Jeffrey J. Marriote.