"A Film for My Father" is adapted from live performance works developed with the New York Neo-Futurists and then under the guidance of Karen Finley. "A Film for My Father" is approximately 4 minutes and treats the relationships of parent and queer child; history, heroes, and homage; and intergenerational realities in Mexican immigrant-diasporic and working class realities. "A Film for My Father" plays with questions of big and little, personal and political, private and public, queers the father-son relationship, smears Saturday Night Fever from the canon pop culture to the concrete conditions of today's marginalized, and uses U.S. history and the coming-out narrative to explore ideas of heroes and mattering, visibility and invisibility. Ricardo Gamboa is an award-winning artist, activist and academic working in his native Chicago and New York City. In Chicago, Gamboa was Founder and Artistic Director of Teatro Americano, Company Member of Barrel of Monkeys, and worked with the city's most notable directors. In New York City, he was a fellow with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics EmergeNYC program, launched his Border Jump-Off Short Film Series, is a Company Member of the award-winning New York Neo-Futurists, and performs at a range of independent and institutional venues. He is recipient of several acting, playwriting, and filmmaking awards. His first feature film Maydays premiered this past year at the Chicago Latino Film Festival. Gamboa has worked with over 5,000 young people in the U.S. and Mexico. He received his M.A. Arts Politics from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and is currently pursuing his doctorate degree in American Studies at the university's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis.

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