Join our friends from El Pachuco for a night of fashion and film as The Frida presents the 1981 classic Zoot Suit on the big screen! And stick around afterwards for an in-person Q&A with LA Times Columnist (and Zoot Suit superfan) Gustavo Arellano!

Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez’s critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.

The schedule for the evening is below: