DREAMSTREET ENTERTAINMENT® Presents
LAS SOLDADAS
During the Mexican Revolution, some of the strongest Warriors were women known as the Soldaderas.
Screenplay
by
Elvia Alvarado
the story
LAS SOLDADAS
Inspired by True Historical Events
Risking their lives through guerrilla warfare during the Mexican Revolution of (1910 - 1920) a small group of peasant women in 1912, and two years into this bloody Civil War, band together to fight against a brutal Hacienda owner who terrorizes his own workers (slaves) in order to maintain his Land Empire in northern Mexico.
Marta, a young peasant mestiza leads a group of women into BATTLE. They develop skills and become SOLDADAS in order to fight and regain their dignity and their land that the Hacienda owner had confiscated from them.
Writer Elvia Alvarado with Gloria Morrison
I was born and raised in San Bernardino, California to both Mexican parents. I’ve been intrigued about the Mexican women camp followers and soldiers/women warriors during the Mexican Revolution since the late 60’s to the present.
To many of us Mexican American/Chicana young women college students during this time of the Chicano civil rights movement in the USA, the Soldadas/Soldaderas became a symbol of liberation. Knowing that these women camp followers & soldiers existed and fought during the Mexican civil war gave us a feeling of connectedness to them as well as giving us strength during a time of our forced assimilation.
Researching & writing this script Las Soldadas has taught me that they are unsung heroines whose lives deserve attention and respect, women who walked, breathed and lived before us.
I hope to continue to research and write about the lives of Mexican, Mexican American, Latina & Indigenous women both in Mexico and in the United States.
Also look for another amazing true Historical Saga 500 years of the Mexican Roots.
www.El DestinotheSeries.
Producer - Gloria Morrison
Gloria has established herself as a successful producer and businesswoman in the motion picture arts community. As founder and President of two successful companies Unistar Int. Pictures and Dreamstreet Entertainment – also worked in Worldwide Distribution for 15 years.
Under her company Dreamstreet Entertainment® and Dreamstreet Studios - Dreamstreet controls more than 30 Feature length projects and TV shows ranging from reality series to drama - Three motion pictures are now in pre-production. Which she is also Producing and Directing.
Gloria also born and raised in East Los Angeles she and Elvia first worked on a mini-series now a Episodic Series ... essentially the Mexican 'Roots'. www. ElDestinoTheSeries.com
The Soldaderas Mosly Traveled By Railroad.
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What was The Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution was a civil war from 1910 - 1917. Some scholars say it extended to 1920.
It 's estimated that 1.9 million to 3.5 million women and children were also killed along with the men in this bloody struggle.
There were many reasons that led to the war in Mexico. One was dissatisfaction with the dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz of over 30 years leading to vast economic inequality. The Diaz oligarchy supported rich industrialists and the elite’s ownership of vast land holdings and wealth. Prior to the revolution, millions of peasants were forced to work on wealthy haciendas while losing their land rights.
Mexicans from all classes fought on the rebel side of the war including peasants, people from the middle class and some from the elite against the Federal government forces. In 1917 a constitution was established for the Republic. And later in 1934 during the Lazaro Cardenas presidency some goals fought for during the civil war became law. Among these were the right of labor to organize and strike,the right of the government to confiscate land from wealthy landowners and land given back to some communal groups,and the separation of Church and State, and the abolishing of unlimited presidential terms.
