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Circo: Remembering the Ringmaster Who Started It All

For the Ponces, circuses literally run in the family from generation to generation. In this scene from the Independent Lens documentary, Circo, we follow Tino and his family to a Day of the Dead reunion at his grandmother's home and pay tribute to the late grandfather, his family's original ringmaster.

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