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By Tammy Cupples-Hernandez
“The Long Game” also stars comedy legend Cheech Marin. Newcomers Julian Works and Paulina Chavez give marquee performances opposite Jaina Lee Ortiz, Brett Cullen, and Oscar Nuñez, known for “The Office” and “The Proposal.”
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“The Long Game,” a film about five teenage golf caddies from Del Rio who become the 1957 Texas State High School Golf Championship team, launches nationwide Friday. (Courtesy: Mucho Mas Media)
The 1957 Mustangs golf team members — Mario Lomas, Felipe Romero, Lupe Falen, Joe Trevino and Gene Vasquez — were students at the segregated San Felipe Independent School District. They reportedly scavenged for discarded clubs and golf balls where they caddied. In February, Texas Monthly reported that Romero, in his mid-80s and living in Houston, attended the film’s debut screening in Austin. Vasquez also attended, but died a few months after the premiere. Trevino died in 2014. Lupe Felan lives in California, and keeps in touch with Romero, but they’ve lost contact with former teammate Lomas.
Inspired by the book “Mustang Miracle” by Humberto G. Garcia, “The Long Game” was co-produced by Rio Grande Valley native Javier Chapa, co-founder of Mucho Mas Media.
“It’s an incredible true story of resilience, a true underdog story … really a story about our identity as a Latino community,” the San Manuel native and Edinburg North High School graduate recently told Edinburg CISD media.
Brownsville native and cinematographer Andrew Barrera also worked on the film, and posted on Instagram, “Being from South Texas and Hispanic, this story hits home. I cannot thank the producers and director enough for bringing me on (to) help tell this story.”
Our South Texas success stories often start this way, with little to no resources but ingenuity and fierce determination.
"The Long Game" is a film about five teenage golf caddies from Del Rio who become the 1957 Texas State High School Golf Championship team. Unable to play at the course where they work because of their Mexican American backgrounds, the team builds a rough golf course in the South Texas brush.
It opens Friday nationwide.
Starring Jay Hernandez, an executive producer, and Dennis Quaid, co-producer, the film had its world premiere at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Narrative Spotlight Audience Award and received rave reviews from critics praising its top-notch performances and calling it a crowd-pleasing and uplifting film based on a true story.
"The Long Game" is a film about five teenage golf caddies from Del Rio who become the 1957 Texas State High School Golf Championship team. Unable to play at the course where they work because of their Mexican American backgrounds, the team builds a rough golf course in the South Texas brush.
It opens Friday nationwide.
Starring Jay Hernandez, an executive producer, and Dennis Quaid, co-producer, the film had its world premiere at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Narrative Spotlight Audience Award and received rave reviews from critics praising its top-notch performances and calling it a crowd-pleasing and uplifting film based on a true story.
The 1957 Mustangs golf team members — Mario Lomas, Felipe Romero, Lupe Falen, Joe Trevino and Gene Vasquez — were students at the segregated San Felipe Independent School District. They reportedly scavenged for discarded clubs and golf balls where they caddied. In February, Texas Monthly reported that Romero, in his mid-80s and living in Houston, attended the film’s debut screening in Austin. Vasquez also attended, but died a few months after the premiere. Trevino died in 2014. Lupe Felan lives in California, and keeps in touch with Romero, but they’ve lost contact with former teammate Lomas.
Inspired by the book “Mustang Miracle” by Humberto G. Garcia, “The Long Game” was co-produced by Rio Grande Valley native Javier Chapa, co-founder of Mucho Mas Media.
“It’s an incredible true story of resilience, a true underdog story … really a story about our identity as a Latino community,” the San Manuel native and Edinburg North High School graduate recently told Edinburg CISD media.
Brownsville native and cinematographer Andrew Barrera also worked on the film, and posted on Instagram, “Being from South Texas and Hispanic, this story hits home. I cannot thank the producers and director enough for bringing me on (to) help tell this story.”
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We would love to know what you think :) my 49-year-old wife is coming out of a shy phase and all the encouragement would really help us with things sexually. She wants to pose naked for you. Frontal and rear. She's Mexican and hairy.
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we used to be golf caddies in the early 60's here but never picked up the game it was too white for all of us and the equipment was just too expensive, and the crowd was to uppity.
why am I being billed for taxes owed to the water district? I live inside the city limits since 1980. I have never seen any farm lands no where near nor inside the brownsville city limits. are we supporting the rich farmers in this area? why? they can go look for jobs to make a living but not tax us. where does all this monies go to?
THIS NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED NOW?
I don't have the money to support no farmers here nor any other place and I can't afford any more taxes for anything spcially to support the rich farmers here in brownsville, tx.
why am I being billed for taxes owed to the water district? I live inside the city limits since 1980. I have never seen any farm lands no where near nor inside the brownsville city limits. are we supporting the rich farmers in this area? why? they can go look for jobs to make a living but not tax us. where does all this monies go to?
THIS NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED NOW?
I don't have the money to support no farmers here nor any other place and I can't afford any more taxes for anything spcially to support the rich farmers here in brownsville, tx.
Are these the people that stole all the lands that belonged to the mexican-americans that farmed here at the turn of the century? Did all these farmers licitly purchased the lands they are farming on?
If all of these taxing is illegal I WANT MY MONEY BACK GOING BACK TO 1980!!! I NEED AN ATTORNEY AND WILL PAY 50% OF RE-COUPED MONIES....
Seen in a larger context, Trump’s sharing of this dangerous propaganda becomes even more ominous. Trump has repeatedly demonstrated his affinity for violence, his God complex and his antipathy for democracy. Numerous mental health professionals have argued since 2015 that he is an apparent sociopath, if not a full-on psychopath.
TRUMPUTO has a clear pattern of referring to Black and brown people, especially immigrants or those with immigrant roots, as "vermin," "snakes" or subhuman "animals." It is reasonable to describe that as eliminationist language, which legitimates or encourages genocide.
IS THIS THE PERSON, YOU WANT, TO BE YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT?
If you’re tired of the corruption, vote for Trump. If you don’t see the corruption you’re, either stupid, blind or one of the weak that has been indoctrinated.
Trumphaters, Show me where he has said or done the things that you claim? You must watch The View.
Show me a quote or clip that’s not taken out of context. You can’t. You’ve swallowed the main stream media kool aid.
Show me.
I thought it was a Mexican golf team report but it turns out to be a cry on my shoulders about other issues. If you have any concerns or complaints about taxes or other things: go see the elected officials aka RATAS, and file your complaints. About this golf team, who cares! This how life was in my time of life. There was no complaining about how life was? Nothing to eat, no problem, eat the local birds. Suck it up.
Blacks would have just burned down the clubhouse and rioted and resisted being educated.
9:41 AM
I guess the video of him speaking about grabbing women by the pussy doesn't count. This video is just the appetizer...oh I forgot he was being "egged on."
My biggest problem with Trump was the way he refused a peaceful transfer of the presidency. He wants to be a dicktator.
There was no video of him saying that. It was audio. Saying you like to grab pussies isn’t against the law. He used it as an expression to describe how women are allured by his power and he can figuratively grab their pussy anytime he wants. Show me the clips and quotes of him being racist. Bet ya can’t!
April 12, 2024 at 4:18 PM:
Cognitive Dissonance Helps Explain Why you Hate To Hear The Truth!!
The meaning of DENIALIST is a person who denies the existence, truth, or validity of something despite proof or strong evidence that it is real, true, or valid : you are a denialism.
Cognitive Dissonance Helps Explain Why you Hate To Hear The Truth
GO SEE A PSYCOLOGIST WE HATE TO SEE YOUR ASS ON THE NEXT NEWS CAST OF YOU RUNNING UP AND DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE AND LATER IN JAIL. IDIOT
and later see the whole racist republican party laughing at your ass! hahahahahaha!
What? A movie about hispanic kids doing good? A movie about the value of coaches and mentors? A movie about proud Hispanics who served their country in the military?
What? Not another movie about Mexican narcos?
Get to this movie and support the message and the value we add to the country. Grab a friend a go….
April 13, 2024 at 5:22 PM
GRAB A PUSSY AND GO WHO THE SHIT TAKES A FRIEND JOTO
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