Photographer Luis C. Garza

11/29/2025

11/29/2025

There is a much needed long overdue reckoning to be had...

03/20/2024

CHECK OUT THIS NEWS ABOUT OUR FILM: Thanks to Hispanos Unidos for their great story about our documentary film “La Gente: Esteemed Director Alessandro Gentile and Renowned Photographer Luis C. Garza.”

LINK IN BIO: https://hispanosnews.com/la-gente-esteemed-director-alessandro-gentile-and-renowned-photographer-luis-c-garza/

And, if you are in Southern California, drive to San Diego today to see it at 5pm!

Digital Gym Cinema
1100 Market St.
San Diego, CA 92101
www.digitalgym.org
Tickets $9–$12

We are so proud that our short film “RAZÓN DE SER: Luis C. Garza” is an official selection of the 31st San Diego Latino Film Festival.

And, it is also one of only FIVE out of nearly 100 films nominated for award consideration in the “Best Documentary Short” competition!

Our film is part of the SDLFF’s “Arte Chicano: Shorts Film Program.”

Film Credits: Radium 88 Productions and CauseConnect present RAZÓN DE SER: Luis C. Garza | Director: Alessandro Gentile | Producers: Heather Flores and Melissa Richardson Banks | Music Composer: Raul Pacheco | Photographer: Luis C. Garza | Sound: Tim Karau | Sound Editing: Oscar Coronel | Editing Consultant: Rich Molina | Graphic Animation: John Brugmann | Associate Producer: Marissa Herrera

03/17/2024

SCREENINGS IN SAN DIEGO 3/17/2024 and 3/20/2024! Our team is so proud that our short film “RAZÓN DE SER: Luis C. Garza” is an official selection of the 31st San Diego Latino Film Festival.

It was also one of only FIVE out of nearly 100 films nominated for award consideration in the “Best Documentary Short” competition!

If you’re in San Diego, please attend one of the two screenings of our film — part of the SDLFF’s “Arte Chicano: Shorts Film Program.”

Film Credits: Radium 88 Productions and CauseConnect present RAZÓN DE SER: Luis C. Garza | Director: Alessandro Gentile | Producers: Heather Flores and Melissa Richardson Banks | Music Composer: Raul Pacheco | Photographer: Luis C. Garza | Sound: Tim Karau | Sound Editing: Oscar Coronel | Editing Consultant: Rich Molina | Graphic Animation: John Brugmann | Associate Producer Marissa Herrera

03.17.2024

07/22/2023

Luis C. Garza began his artistic career as a photojournalist recording the tumultuous social events of the 1960s and 1970s for La Raza magazine—the journalis...

05/08/2023

BUY MY BOOK! Purchase the catalog for my exhibition "The Other Side of Memory: Photographs by Luis C. Garza" AND get a sneak peek at the short documentary about my work in production before it is submitted to film festivals this fall!

“Luis C. Garza is the rare Chicano photographer who documented activism on both coasts, and internationally, during these years of dissent and social upheaval.” ~ Elizabeth Ferrer, scholar of Latinx and Mexican photography and author of "Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History"

The exhibition was curated by Armando Durón and organized by Melissa Richardson Banks. In addition to Durón and Ferrer, contributing writers to the catalog include Charlene Villaseñor Black. The book was published by CauseConnect. The film is directed by Alessandro Gentile and produced by Melissa Richardson Banks and Heather Flores.

Buy the Book and Get a Sneak Peek at our Documentary! Exhibition Catalog Now On Sale   Order Your Copy Now Purchase today and get a sneak peek at our short documentary about Luis C. Garza before it is