Yareli Arizmendi Quotes
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It's been quoted in articles and all that ?this is like A Day Without a Mexican .? That the film was prophetic.
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It's such a power base, but it's a dormant power base. But I don't care if they're documented or illegal, they are people. And when you want a community to work, you want all of the member of your community to flourish.
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There's been a lot of talk about the film it has served as an organizing tool, a kind of reference.
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As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.
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It is so filled with so many issues about being Latino in the United States. Being documented versus being undocumented, and Latinos and the way they are perceived across the nation and especially in California. I know that sounds super broad, and it is. But in the film, we touched on issues enough so that they can be brought up afterward, and then we could invite people to bring them up in a bigger discussion.
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Once we get into the whole media campaign and the reaction to that, we will be broadening that discussion even further.