In about 1978, a young artist, Bill Davis, came to Severo’s work place looking for a job. Bill was 24, recently married and his wife was pregnant. He needed a…
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Severo Perez’s adaptation of “Y no se lo tragó la tierra” (“…and the earth did not swallow him”), a landmark film in Chicano…
Award-winning filmmaker, playwright, and novelist Severo Pérez was recently a guest on Texas Public Radio’s Book Public podcast to discuss his memoir, Filmmaker’s Journey. Hosted by Yvette Benavides, the episode…
Award-winning filmmaker, playwright, and writer Severo Pérez recently joined the Hispanic Genealogy Talk podcast for an engaging conversation about his acclaimed 1994 film, …and the Earth Did Not Swallow Him.…
Thursday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. Join for a conversation with award-winning writer/director Severo Perez, author of a new memoir, Filmmaker’s Journey, published in The Wittliff Book Series. Perez’s landmark…
Filmmaker’s Journey is a new addition to the Wittliff Collections Literary Series, published by Texas A&M University Press, in April 2024. This memoir is a deeply personal account of Severo…
Rudy Perez’s passing on September 29, 2023, marked an end of a big piece of history embodied in one person. On his own from the age of seventeen, by grit…
I am humbled and elated to share that “…and the Earth Did Not Swallow Him” has been nominated for the Library of Congress National Film Registry by Congressman Joaquin Castro,…
