abel sanchez cowrote the title song with carlos santana's brother. ♪ >> did not know who we were.ntity. -- we did not know who we were. we were seeking identity. cesar chavez davis. kristen: it opens today. joining us to talk about it live is abel sanchez. thank you for joining us. congratulations on the film. abel: thank you. thank you so much. leisure to be here with you. kristen: tell me what inspired you to make it. abel: my inspiration came from working with the cesar chavez family on a stamp campaign prior to writing the song. it kind of felt like he was still with me when i was in the studio recording in this song came about. we -- and this song came about. we were inspired. the words came out of the spirit, if you will come in next thing you know, we had a song that involved into people saying while, this great, you should put some footage to it. so that kind of went into went n documentary, a full documentary, and that is how it started. the inspiration came without attention, as my good friend my angela told me -- maya angelou told me. she told me. that is interesting, b

he cowrote the title song with carlos santana's brother. >> we did not know who did not we were singinghavez gave us that. liz: the song tells the story of the musicians and the artists dedicated their talents to peacefully advancing the movement. sanchez spoke with abc 7 about the inspiration behind the film. >> it was still with me when i was in the studio recording with jorge santana and that evolved into people saying, this is great. it was dedicated for caesar. that catapulted into, do a documentary, do a full documentary. that is how it started. the inspiration came without intention. liz: a song for caesar is playing this weekend at san francisco's opera plaza. it will be shown at 7:30 tonight and tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. lisa, let's get a final check on the forecast. lisa: just a little bit of a drink of rain for the plants and the farms because we have had one wave move through. more offshore but only a level 1 system. along monterey and the central coast more impressive cells. anywhere from 2/10 and less in the north. hopefully one third along the coast. this winds down quickly a

sanchez co-wrote the title song with carlos santana's brother. >> w w w w w w w it was an identity.liz: it shows the story of the musicians and artists who dedicated their talents to peacefully advance the movement to fight for right and protections for farmworkers. sanchez spoke with abc 7 about the inspiration behind the film. >> it is a film the studio recording and this song came about and that evolved into people saying, this song is great. it was a song for caesar. that catapulted into, do a documentary off of this. and that is how it started. the inspiration came without intention. liz: "a song for caesar" weekend at san francisco's aubrey plaza at 7:30 tonight and again tomorrow at 2:00 p.m.. let's get a final check of the weather. a little chillier this morning. lisa: the central valley getting some wet weather as we look at live doppler 7. there is rain off store -- offshore bringing us scattered showers in sonoma and napa. i do activity offshore, that is the real rain but there is some mist and drizzle around petaluma and san rafael. highway one, santa rosa, perhaps a few