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The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = The Ballad of Esequiel Hernndez
| image =
| caption =
| director = Kieran Fitzgerald
| producer = Michael Fitzgerald
Brendan Fitzgerald
| writer = Kieran Fitzgerald
Brendan Fitzgerald
Marc Weiss
Shane Slattery-Quintanilla
| based_on = The killing of Esequiel Hernndez Jr
| narrator = Tommy Lee Jones
| music = Bobby Flores
| cinematography = Caz Duffy
Kieran Fitzgerald
John Hall
| editing = Brendan Fitzgerald
Kieran Fitzgerald
Shane Slattery-Quintanilla
| studio =
| distributor = PBS
| released =
| runtime = 90 minutes
| country = United States
Mexico
| language = English
Spanish
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'The Ballad of Esequiel Hernndez' is a 2007 American documentary film that investigates the murky killing of Esequiel Hernndez Jr by US Marines. It is written and directed by Kieran Fitzgerald and narrated by Tommy Lee Jones.
Cast
*Tommy Lee Jones - Narrator
*James Blood - self
*David Castaneda - self
*Randall Cater - self
*Mike Coyne - self
*Danny Dominguez - self
*Izdiel Garcia - self
*Michael Gross - self
*Esequiel Hernandez Sr. - self
*Margarito Hernandez - self
*Richard Jerome - self
*Jane Kelly - self
*Terry Kincaid - self
*Amanda Lichtenberg - self
*Enrique Madrid - self
*Christine Manriquez - self
*David Marquez - self
*John McGee - self
*Teresaa Todd - self
*Roy Torrez Jr. - self
*Albert Valadez - self
*Roland Wieler - self
*Jack Zimmermann - self
Release and reception
It won best-documentary awards at the Mexico City Film Festival in 2007, the Santa Fe Film Festival in 2007 and at the El Paso festival in 2008.
References
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