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Sylvia Morales (born 1943 in Phoenix, Arizona) is a Mexican American film director, writer, producer, and editor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm258.shtml )〕 Morales is recognized as one of the first female Mexican-American filmmakers to have established a Latino cinema. In her filmmaking career, Morales has been nationally recognized winning awards for film and video documentary on topics ranging from the farm workers struggle to the music of Los Lobos.〔 While the majority of her work is in the documentary film genre, she has also done work for the mass media television. She has also published essays and photographs on Latina and feminist issues.〔 Sylvia Morales has as lectured and taught in different Universities throughout Southern California. Morales' work is characterized by strong documentaries that portray the Latino community. She also has work that demonstrates the feminist issues that arise in the Chicano community. ==Early life== Morales was born in Phoenix, Arizona but was raised in Southern California, United States.〔 Morales studied at the University of California, Los Angeles where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1972. She then went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts in 1979 in film with an emphasis in motion picture production.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://bulletin.lmu.edu/university-faculty.htm )〕 In the 1970s, the Chicana Feminist Movement was founded to address the specific needs of Chicanas as women of color in the United States. Sylvia Morales was among one of the Chicana artists who began to write and produce works in which Chicanas were given a proper name, voice, and image. As mentioned by Jenny Dean, Chicanisma is a concept that gives a sense of sisterhood in feminist discourse. Chicanisma emerged to confront the triple oppression of race, class, and gender within the Latino community. The book, ''Latina Filmmakers and Writers'' examine the works of seven celebrated Latinas who collectively represent a 20-year history of Chicanisma and one of those listed in the book is Sylvia Morales.〔 Sylvia Morales first became active in film and television around 1971 when she started working for Channel 7 ABC, Los Angeles in a program called ''Unidos'' which was about the Chicano community in Los Angeles. Jose Luis Ruiz who was the producer of the program was in need of a new camera person since the guy who he had hired for the job decided to quit on him the night before the shoot. Jose contacts Morales and giving her this opportunity to be a part of the tech crew since they had been at UCLA together for film in which he became aware of Morales' camera work. She decided to accept the offer becoming the camera person for the program. During her time at ABC she did thirteen half-hour documentaries that were aired to the public thereafter she began her career as a producer, director, author and editor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sylvia Morales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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