PROFE One 60-minute documentary
Profe (slang for profesora) is a one-hour documentary that delves into the historical and present-day struggles behind creating an equitable educational system for Latinos in Minnesota. For the Latino community in Minnesota, la educacion is the road to empowerment, identity, and self- determination. Although Minnesota boasts some of the best schools in the country, it ranks worst in the nation for graduation rates of BIPOC students.
Centered on three female Latina education pioneers including Cesar Chavez mentee, Ramona de Rosales, the documentary will utilize the current school year at El Colegio, a small bilingual charter school in Minneapolis, as its throughline while weaving in and out of past narratives such as the Mexican settlement of the 1900s, the Chicano Movement in the 1960s, as well as the recent efforts to provide bilingual education and ethnic studies in public schools.
BOUCHA: THE HENRY BOUCHA STORY One 60-minute documentary
Boucha follows the hockey legend Henry Boucha from early stardom to crushing defeat to healing. Boucha is not about winning or losing – on the ice or in the courtroom; it’s about Minnesota hockey legend Henry Boucha and how he reclaimed his pride for his Ojibwa culture and people.
The film by acclaimed director Leya Hale takes us from the river hockey games of Boucha’s youth at the northern tip of Minnesota to his rise to the U.S. Olympic Team, and the NHL. But a horrific eye injury sent him spiraling into alcohol, drugs and depression.
Now late in life, Boucha reflects on his upbringing in Warroad, his Ojibwa roots and history, his rise and fall due to a brutal eye injury, and the eventual redemption he found in his culture and traditions.
MINNESOTA PUBLIC TELEVISION ASSOCIATION
LEGACY REPORTING: JULY 1, 2021 – JUNE 30, 2022
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