CineCulture: Adios Amor- The Search for Maria Moreno

https://www.adiosamorfilm.com/

In the docu-detective Adios Amor, the filmmaker discovers forgotten photographs taken over 50 years ago, and sets out to find their spunky protagonist: Maria Moreno, a migrant mother of twelve who led a movement for farmworker rights years before Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta launched the United Farm Workers.

The search for Maria leads through archives, attics, and orchards, California’s rich agricultural belt, the Arizona desert, and beyond the U.S.-Mexico border, and recovers a treasure trove of audiotapes, home movies and memorabilia. Revived as well are the vivid memories of the maverick journalists and artists who captured Maria’s story and kept her memory alive.

What emerges is a suppressed history of the people who harvest the food on our tables even when they cant feed their own families, and the epic saga of an outspoken, trailblazing woman who told their story to the world. Featuring a rocking score of cello, accordion, Gospel and Tex-Mex music, the search for Maria Moreno pays loving tribute to countless anonymous women working behind the scenes for social justice, and provokes us to ask, why haven’t we ever heard of them?