John J. Valadez

John J. Valadez is a Peabody Award–winning filmmaker whose work has received two national Emmy nominations and won dozens of awards. In addition to “The Longoria Affair” (PBS Independent Lens, 2010), he has directed 10 documentary films for national broadcast on PBS and CNN, tackling such diverse subjects as false imprisonment of a Black Panther leader, Latino gangs in Chicago, re-segregation of America’s schools, history of Latino civil rights, evolution of Chicano music, and genocide of Native Americans in the Southwest. Valadez is professor of documentary filmmaking at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he continues to make films about the Latino experience.