Renee Tajima-Pena – MRQE https://mrqe.com Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:37:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png Renee Tajima-Pena – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 Calavera Highway https://mrqe.com/movie/calavera-highway-m100071609/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/calavera-highway-m100071609/ When ARMANDO and CARLOS PENA set off to carry their mother’s ashes back to South Texas and reunite with their brothers, the road reveals more than they bargained for. Calavera Highway (Skeleton Highway), traces the odyssey of two brothers as they decipher their family’s story-why their mother ROSA was outcast by her own family, and what happened to their father PEDRO, who disappeared during the notorious 1954 U.S. government deportation program, “Operation Wetback,” in which over a million Mexican and Mexican Americans were forced across the border. A sweeping story of a family of seven men grappling with the meaning of masculinity, fatherhood, and a legacy of rootless beginnings.

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