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Masa Revolution: The Backstreet to The American Dream is an English/Spanish documentary film for theatrical release about how food trucks are reshaping society. The film focuses on how breaking bread on the street is breaking barriers in society: dispelling negative stereotypes, fostering kinship, and building community in ways some neighborhoods have never seen before.

Masa Revolution  profiles two rolling restaurants: the traditional taco truck, Las banquitas in Highland Park where Jesus Estrada has been serving tacos– and his mother’s homemade salsa– since 1988, and Grill Em All. That’s the gourmet truck that won the Food Network’s premiere episode in New York City of the Great Food Truck Race in September 2010. In December 2010, a few months after they won, Grill Em All went back to the Big Apple for a victory tour, and the Masa Revolution crew –NYC- also rolled tape on the pop-culture icons!

Social media is the digital divide that splits the Los Angeles food trucks scene in two: Taco Trucks/Loncheros and Gourmet Food Trucks. Through two and half years of reporting, Patricia Nazario has garnered the trust of loncheros, and gained access to both sides of the industry that reaches beyond any media coverage done to date. When Masa Revolution hits the big screen in 2014, expect to see exclusive reporting that ranges from in-depth interviews about street gangs and extortion, to unprecedented access to health inspectors grading food trucks in the field.

Patricia Nazario started producing the food truck film project in September 2010. Since then, the crew has recorded more than 300 hours of footage, including: turf wars blocking catering trucks out of certain zones, the politics behind the pop-culture boom, and the introduction of the grading system for these mobile kitchens. Our cameras have captured many rare glimpses, and will bring to the big screen, moments that the general public has never been seen before, including a ride along in the field with L.A. County health inspectors as they shut down food trucks. The film also explores how the street food movement is redefining the way people in America perceive and interact with one another.

Masa Revolution is the only long form, journalistic endeavor documenting the social, political, and financial shifts that began reshaping the food truck industry in 2009. Your contribution is crucial to completing the film project. Every dollar in goes towards post production: scoring, video licensing, animation, subtitling, sound mixing, festival submissions, and publicity.

This is your chance to join the excitement. This is an insightful story. Your support will help us tell it!

 

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