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Moctesuma Esparza
Highest Rated: 88% Mosquita y Mari (2011)
Lowest Rated: 8% Gods and Generals (2003)
Birthday: Mar 12, 1949
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
A native of Southern California, Esparza began producing Spanish-language and bilingual documentaries and television shows while still in film school. Co-founder (with Robert Redford) of the Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization which aids young filmmakers, Esparza has maintained his commitment to the Chicano community from his first feature, "Only Once in a Lifetime" (1979) to one of his best-known efforts, "The Milagro Beanfield War" (1988). Along with Robert Katz, Esparza also undertook producing responsibilities on the massive historical recreation, "Gettysburg" (1993).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 33% | Due Justice | Producer | - | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | 34% | Taco Shop | Producer | - | 2018 |
| 88% | 69% | Mosquita y Mari | Executive Producer | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 28% | Across the Line | Executive Producer | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Harlem Hostel | Executive Producer | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | Walkout | Executive Producer | - | 2006 |
| 8% | 64% | Gods and Generals | Executive Producer | $12.9M | 2003 |
| 33% | 76% | Price of Glory | Producer | $3.4M | 2000 |
| 83% | 80% | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Executive Producer | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | Selma, Lord, Selma | Executive Producer | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | Butter | Executive Producer | - | 1998 |
| 66% | 78% | Selena | Producer | $35.4M | 1997 |
| 29% | 57% | The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca | Executive Producer | $226.4K | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | The Ambulance | Producer | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Telephone | Producer | $54.8K | 1988 |
| 61% | 74% | The Milagro Beanfield War | Producer | $12.7M | 1988 |