Packet 8: Tossup 3

After falling victim to a prank article in January 2021, hundreds of people with this cultural identity protested the supposed destruction of a bunya pine tree famed for being the meeting point of a film’s three protagonists. In a 2002 film about this identity, a group of women working at a factory strip down to their underwear to retaliate (15[1])against body shaming. Real-life workers with this identity (15[1])made up the majority of the cast of the 1954 neorealist film Salt of the Earth. (15[1])The white-passing prisoner Miklo is told, “I don’t want his pork chop — I want his life!” (15[1])in a scene from a cult film among this identity, (*) Blood in Blood Out. Some critics (-5[1])have likened Lady (10[1])Bird to a film about a teenager of this cultural identity, Real Women Have Curves. (-5[1])Key figures in this identity’s (10[2])film (-5[1])culture include Cheech Marin (10[1])and Edward (10[1])James (10[1])Olmos. For 10 points, name (10[1])this cultural identity of Ritchie Valens, the subject of Luis Valdez’s biopic La Bamba. ■END■ (10[2])

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