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On Film
On Film

All They Will Call You

By Charles Horak III,
Sam Cassiano
Published July 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM MDT
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
UTEP Creative Writing Department
"Tim Z. Hernandez is an award winning writer, research scholar, and performance artist, whose works have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, C-Span Book TV, Public Radio International, and National Public Radio."

A local author's award winning book is being made into a film and you can help support the film's production.

Join host Charles Horak with associate professor in the department of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso and author of the 2017 book "All They Will Call You", Tim Z. Hernandez.

The books recovers the history and tragedy of a U.S. airplane disaster from 1948 that took the lives of 28 Mexican farm workers. Tim Z. Hernandez is adapting the story to a feature length documentary film.

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Originally aired on July 26, 2025

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Charles Horak III
Since 2004, Charles Horak has been the host of the long-running radio program, On Film, creating more than 1,000 programs dedicated to film reviews, filmmaker interviews and discussions of cinema history and industry advancement. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Association and board member of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.
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Sam Cassiano
Sam Cassiano is a native Californian who spent his formative years in the Bay Area. An army brat, his family toured Germany and Japan before settling in El Paso in 1973. Initially a Communications Major at UTEP, a radio internship at KPAS-FM 94, the PASS launched his broadcasting career. He can be heard as the morning news anchor on KTEP during NPR's Morning Edition, and Friday evenings at 10 pm as the host of Friday Night Blues.
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