Screenwriters: Victor Villaseñor, Robert M. Young

Producers: Moctesuma Esparza, Michael Hausman

Vidiots welcomes film icon and award-winning actor Edward James Olmos for a special double feature of highlights from his impressive and expansive 50-year career.

Olmos shines as folk hero Gregorio Cortez in the powerful revisionist western The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts in 2016.