‘Bless Me Ultima’ to shoot in New Mexico

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The production is expected to hire 150 New Mexicans for the cast and crew and more than 400 extras. It is based on the novel by Rudolfo Anaya, which chronicles the coming-of-age story of Antonio, a young boy in northern New Mexico during World War II, and his relationship with Ultima, an elderly healer and curandera.

The book was selected for The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture. It also was selected as one of the literary works in the 2009 U.S. Academic Decathlon.
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