Fil-Am child stars in film version of acclaimed novel
By Ruben V. Nepales
A child actor whose great-grandparents came to the United States from the Philippines in the early 1900s stars in “Bless Me, Ultima,” film adaptation of a novel regarded as the most influential contemporary Chicano fiction work. Luke Ganalon, who said that his paternal great-grandfather is an Ilocano, plays Antonio Marez, a central character in the book by Rudofo Anaya—the father of Chicano literature in English.
