JESÚS SALVADOR TREVIÑO
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Jesús Salvador Treviño is writer/director whose television directing credits include THE UNIT, LAW AND ORDER CRIMINAL INTENT, CRIMINAL MINDS, PRISON BREAK, BONES, E-RING, CROSSING JORDAN, NYPD BLUE, THIRD WATCH, ER, THE PRACTICE, CHICAGO HOPE, DAWSON’S CREEK, NEW YORK UNDERCOVER, THE PRETENDER, NASH BRIDGES, MARTIAL LAW, BRIMSTONE, SEAQUEST, STAR TREK: VOYAGER, BABYLON FIVE, STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE, SWEET JUSTICE, SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND, THE BURNING ZONE and HAWKEYE.

Mr. Treviño began his career in film and television as a student activist documenting the 1960s Chicano civil rights struggle with a super-8 camera. Throughout the late sixties and early nineteen seventies, he was both a participant and a chronicler of the events and issues of the day. His national PBS documentaries about Latinos and the Chicano struggle include AMERICA TROPICAL, YO SOY CHICANO, LA RAZA UNIDA, CHICANO MORATORIUM, THE SALAZAR INQUEST and BIRTHWRITE. He was Co-Executive Producer of the PBS documentary series, CHICANO! HISTORY OF THE MEXICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. He wrote and directed the Mexican feature film RAICES DE SANGRE (ROOTS OF BLOOD) and SEGUIN, an American Playhouse drama of the Alamo saga told from a Mexican American point of view. More recently, he has served as Co- Executive Producer of the SHOWTIME series, RESURRECTION BLVD.

Mr. Treviño has won dozens of national and international awards and recognitions including (twice) the prestigious Directors Guild of America award and an Alma award for Outstanding Director of a Television drama and an Alma award as Co-Executive Producer of Resurrection Boulevard, Best Prime-time drama series. In 1991, his film, RAICES DE SANGRE (ROOTS OF BLOOD), was included in an anthology of the 25 Most Significant Films of Latin American Cinema at the 36th Annual International Film Festival of Valladolid, Spain. In 1993 he was honored with an homage at the Montevideo International Film Festival in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Mr. Treviño is also a writer. His collections of short stories include THE FABULOUS SINKHOLE AND OTHER STORIES (1995), THE SKYSCRAPER THAT FLEW (2005) and RETURN TO ARROYO GRANDE (2015). His none-fiction memoir, EYEWITNESS – A FILMMAKER’S MEMOIR OF THE CHICANO MOVEMENT was published in 2001. His non-fiction chronicle of Latinx documentary films THE CHICANO DOCUMENTARY was published in 2025.

Mr. Trevino’s current project is www.Latinopia.com  This is a video driven website on Latino history,art, literature,music, theater,cinema and food.

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