00:00So how do you feel being here celebrating the Latino community?
00:06Oh my, it is, Nalip has been an important part of our lives since the beginning of our
00:11careers and so it's really exciting to be here celebrating our film sisters as well
00:16as celebrating other filmmakers who are here helping to raise our voices for the Latino
00:21community.
00:22Tell me about sisters, what was the biggest challenge for you guys?
00:25Oh my god.
00:26All the years.
00:27It took us eight and a half years to get this movie made and we got so many champions around
00:35this movie that made us possible to get here and a lot of them are here so we're very very
00:39excited to share this moment with everybody.
00:43Any fun plans for the summer?
00:45You know we're going to be working a lot but we love working together so it's very fun
00:50because we are going to be preparing for the launch of sisters, it's going to be released
00:54I can't tell you yet when but very soon enough so that the summer will be a working summer
00:59but it's always fun with us.
01:01Now each of you tell me why Hollywood needs more Latino presence?
01:07Look at us, look at all of us.
01:12Do we need to say more?
01:13We're fun, we're talented, we have so much heart, we love our family, we love our friends
01:18and we have amazing stories to tell but yeah just this should be more than enough.
01:24Because we're yeah an amazing community and I think every culture deserves representation
01:29and we're just one of every culture but I do feel like every culture deserves to be
01:34able to be seeing ourselves in stories because stories connect us to the world and give us
01:41a perspective of what happens in other cultures so they're very important in every aspect
01:47of the world.
01:49Well we have a lot of work to do in the United States as we all saw last night but I feel
01:55like one of the things we found in our screenings is a lot of folks who related to our movie
02:00they said thank you for allowing me to see myself in a film, thank you for representing
02:06me and the narrative of Latinos in the US has a lot of work right now and I feel like
02:12films have a place in changing the biases in our country.
02:16I mean Hillary Clinton wrote in her book that they use the West Wing to teach Pakistan
02:21about democracy, I mean television and film have a huge impact on our world in so many
02:26ways and there's a responsibility to show Latinos on the screen and to help change the
02:32world.
02:33What have you learned about working on a movie like this?
02:39We learned everything because we literally have been hands on on everything.
02:43We are three actresses who decided to take our careers in our hands and we decided to
02:48write for each other, for ourselves, stories that matter to us and so we literally learned
02:55every single aspect of filmmaking from writing to pitching to producing to getting the funding
03:02to editing.
03:03We were in the editing room every single second of the editing process to now we're learning
03:08a lot about distribution.
03:10Post-producing, music cues, sheet music, every single, I always say that it's like we got
03:17a PhD without getting an official PhD and PhDs usually take six to eight years so that
03:22tracks.
03:23Thank you so much, enjoy tonight.
03:26Thank you.
03:27Thank you.
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