EXCLUSIVE: Participant is bringing The Forgotten Revolutionary, based on journalist Adolfo Guzman-Lopez’s LAist Studios podcast Imperfect Paradise: The Forgotten Revolutionary, to the small screen.
The company is simultaneously developing both a scripted and documentary limited series based on the podcast with producer Juan Devis.
Rodney Lucas will direct the unscripted series, and Devis’ Ninetythree Media will produce. The podcast follows host and reporter Guzman-Lopez as he investigates the death of college student and radio host Oscar Gomez.
One of California’s Chicano student rights movement’s most prominent voices, Gomez was mysteriously found dead on the Santa Barbara shore in 1994.
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