2026
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Firelight Fund

Barrio Television

Barrio Television uncovers the story of fearless activists who disrupted a public television pledge drive in 1972 – demanding airtime for “Realidades,” the first bilingual Latino public affairs series to air nationwide. As political backlash and corporate influence threatened to cancel and erase it, its creators – and a new generation of filmmakers – fight to reclaim a revolutionary vision of public media.

FILM TOPICS
Arts/Culture
Historical
Social Issues & Human Rights
FILMMAKERS
Meet the filmmakers behind the film.
ABOUT THE FILM
Firelight Fund
REGIONAL FOCUS
Carribean
Latin America
United States
DEMOGRAPHIC FOCUS
Latine Communities
Women