La Pastorela = The shepherds' tale
(DVD)

Bonus features: Documentary - El Teatro Campensino: Looking back 25 years.

Directed & written by Luis Valdez ; producer, Richard D. Soto.

Music composed and arranged by Joseph Julián González ; music director, David Silva ; songs performed by Los Lobos ; director of photography, Chuy Elizondo ; edited by Zach Staenberg.

Linda Ronstadt, Paul Rodriguez, Robert Beltran, Karla Montana, Freddy Fender, Cheech Marin, Don Novello, León Singer, Lupe Ontiveros, Miguel Sandoval, Mario Pardo, Anahuac Valdez, Lalo Guerrero, Rosa Maria Escalante, Flaco Jiménez, et al.

Originally broadcast on WNET-TV, New York, N.Y., Dec. 23, 1991.

Television adaptation of Luis Valdez' Christmas play, originally staged by El Teatro Campesino.

Filmed in and around San Juan Bautista Mission, La Pastorela is a musical retelling of the shepherds' journey to Bethlehem to see the Christ Child. We see the play through the eyes of a young Chicana. In her surrealistic dream, she makes the journey with the shepherds.

DVD. Aspect ratio (1.33:1) ; NTSC ; All Regions ; PCM stereo.

In English and Spanish; English subtitles.

Performed primarily in English, with occasional Spanish words and phrases interpolated into the dialog. Songs in Spanish, with English subtitles.