Severo’s latest documentary, Carmen Lomas Garza: Looking Back, examines the life and work of the artist, author and children’s book illustrator. Carmen Lomas Garza’s books have sold over a half-million copies and are used in classrooms across the country. The program will be available this winter.

Currently, Countdown: Reflections on a Life in Dance is screening on public television stations across the U.S. The documentary profiles Rudy Perez (no relation), a post-modern choreographer with roots in New York, who moved to Los Angeles and became a major influence on West Coast dance.

Currently, Severo is developing a television series about Mexican Independence.

Severo has been a writer, producer, director and editor for 35 years. He is probably best known as the writer, producer and director of …and the earth did not swallow him (1994), a feature-length adaptation of the seminal Chicano novel by Tomas Rivera. The drama, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Playhouse, has won 11 international awards.

He was Head of Production for The Learning Garden from 1974 to 1982, where his clients included MCA Universal, CBS Saturday Morning Programming, and HBO. He produced the animated/live action version of Mark Twain’s The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1980), which won nine international awards and remains in distribution. He was line producer on Seguin, an American Playhouse production in 1982. In 1973 he was researcher, location manager, still photographer and graphic artist on Executive Action, starring Burt Lancaster.