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"However, I deliberation the happening that has ever helped maine with this is looking backmost astatine past and seeing that determination person ever been periods similar this before. Before the DEI roar of the past 10 years determination were fundamentally nary roles for us, what the icons of our communities (like our inspiring EP Luis Guzman) person shown america is that the lone mode to get to the different broadside is to garbage to fto anyone suppress your voice. Write astir what is being sparked successful you, what is moving you, what is making you happy, what is upsetting you!"
"That is simply a large crushed wherefore we made A West Side Story Story. I wasn't getting auditions for roles that looked astatine me/Latinos successful a non-stereotypical lens, and I was sick of it. I wanted enactment that represented each our realities, not conscionable the ones the media determines for us. As a Latina, I americium watching my brothers and sisters being taken disconnected the streets, and vanish. There is thing anyone tin accidental to archer maine that is ok. It's not. It’s important to archer stories astir the harsh information of what's happening, but I besides privation to archer stories astir our dreams, our love, our joy, and our mistakes. Making enactment astir the multi-layered humans we are, due to the fact that the information is the radical that are being hunted are conscionable that — people."
A West Side Story Story is co-written and directed by Aditya Joshi, co-written, produced, and starring Ana Luz Zambrana, produced by Cemí Guzmán and Adrian Alea, and enforcement produced by Luis Guzmán. The movie is astir a Puerto Rican theatre manager struggling to clasp unneurotic her "culturally authentic" mentation of West Side Story.
Check here to travel on with Ana's enactment and A West Side Story Story.
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