About this Event
LA Made in collaboration with El Cine presents a screening of Bread and Roses (2000), directed by Ken Loach, a powerful portrait of labor, dignity, and collective resistance. Set in Los Angeles, the film follows immigrant janitorial workers organizing for fair wages and basic rights, foregrounding the intersection of work, migration, and identity within the city’s social fabric.
This screening invites the viewer to reflect on how cinema can give visibility to lived struggles while remaining intimate and human. Loach’s approach, rooted in realism and collaboration, raises questions about authorship, representation, and the ethics of telling working-class and immigrant stories on screen.
Following the screening, filmmakers Gabriela Ortega, Alexis Garcia, and Walter Thompson will join a conversation on identity and filmmaking, considering how labor, community, and political urgency continue to inform contemporary cinematic practice.
El Cine - Film schools are expensive,creating a gap that excludes underfunded communities. At El Cine we believe film education begins at the cinema and through conversations. El Cine aims to not only bridge the gap between media and community as well as educate filmmakers and companies to become better allies. Cinema is the mirror that can change the world. El Cine is a space for anyone who is seeking to learn more about different cultures, about the human experience, about themselves.
Alexis Garcia - Los Angeles based filmmaker Alexis C. Garcia is of Afro-Puerto Rican descent, she was born in the Bronx, NY and spent her formative years between Miami, FL and Puerto Rico. In 2022, she was selected to participate in the Latino Film Institute's Inclusion Fellowship sponsored by Netflix, where she wrote and directed the Oscar-qualified short, Daughter of the Sea.
Gabriela Ortega is an award-winning Dominican filmmaker and actor. She is a USC graduate, Sundance Labs alum, and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her latest film, Marga en el DF, is premiering at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
Walter Thompson-Hernández is a filmmaker and writer from southeast Los Angeles whose work blends documentary realism with poetic narrative. His Sundance-premiering short If I Go Will They Miss Me earned him recognition from Variety and Filmmaker Magazine. His debut feature Kites premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, continuing his focus on community-driven, hybrid storytelling.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Central Library - Taper Auditorium, 630 W 5th St, Los Angeles, United States
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