Along with 2012 Medal of Freedom recipient and Executive Producer Dolores Huerta and promotional partner, Jarritos, this award-winning bilingual documentary takes a modern-day look at the classic American Dream through the quintessential 21st Century entrepreneurial endeavor – food trucks!
Backstreet to the American Dream profiles American entrepreneurs and Mexican immigrants in the food truck industry. Indeed, these are very different operations in the same city: Ryan Harkins rose to fame after Grill ‘Em All’s first-season win on The Great Food Truck Race on the Food Network in 2010, and Doña Guillermina Vella Rio owns the mariscos (seafood) truck, El Pescadito, that has parked at the same swap meet near South Los Angeles since 1982.
Ryan Harkins and crew celebrate Grill Em All’s first anniversary on December 16, 2010. (Photo by Corey Takahashi)
Born in 1954, this grandmother, with salt and pepper hair, still cries when she thinks of sneaking across the U.S. border in 1977 to get a job to support her baby boy back home in Nayarit.
Doña Guille has been parking her lonchera, El Pescadito, in the same blue-collar L.A. neighborhood since 1982. (Photo by Patricia Nazario)
This bilingual documentary looks at how street food fosters racial tolerance. It includes a 4:00 animation that traces street food through time back to Ancient Mexico in Mesoamerica, which has won two Audience Awards for Best Animation.
In collaboration with illustrator Jules Rivera, the four-minute animated open traces street food through time, and back to Doña Guille’s food truck in South L.A.
Through rich and vibrant stories of everyday Americans, the 90-minute feature explores the connection between food, culture and community and discovers that the meaning of the American Dream is in the eye of the beholder. More at @BackstreetFilm.com.
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