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Film Discussion Leaders

SEASON 13

2025 / 2026

American Agitators

September 18, 2025

Panel Profiles

Raymond Telles’ thirty-five year career in film and television includes numerous documentaries and segments for PBS, ABC, NBC, Nat Geo, Discovery and Univision. Documentaries produced and directed include: Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer’s Journey (American Masters), The Storm that Swept Mexico (PBS), The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle (PBS), Children of the Night (Frontline/PBS) Inside the Body Trade (National Geographic) and The Peril and The Promise – and PBS series “Latino Americans.” Among the honors these programs have received are the Columbia DuPont, Peabody, Emmy and Alma awards. Telles is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Artist in Residence at the Latinx Research Center and Affiliated Faculty at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2018 he was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award, Division of Social Sciences, College of Letters and Science.