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Independent Film Series: "Moonlight"

Moonlight (2016) is the tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

The evening's speaker will be Dr. Randy Ontiveros, professor at the University of Maryland, researches, teaches, and serves in the areas of Latinx and American media, history, and politics.

Randy Ontiveros is the Director of Honors Humanities and an Associate Professor in the English Department, with affiliations in U.S. Latina/o Studies, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies  at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of California, Irvine. At Maryland, he researches and teaches in the field of Latinx literary and cultural studies. 

Professor Ontiveros has published articles and book chapters on topics ranging from Latinx environmentalism to television coverage of the Mexican-American civil rights movement. His book In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement was published by New York University Press in 2013.  Currently, he is writing a book  entitled “Crabgrass Frontera: The Suburbs in Latinx Politics and Cultures.” In 2015 Professor Ontiveros won the prestigious University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ Faculty Award for Teaching. In 2016 he was awarded the Donna B. Hamilton Award for Teaching Excellence in General Education at the University of Maryland. In 2023 he won the Faculty Service Award for his service contributions to the College of Arts and Humanities.

Rated R

111 minutes (1 hour and 51 minutes) in length.