As our group is all Hispanic/Spanish ethnicity, we felt it was very important to incorporate some of our culture into the opening. Jessica and her family are from Cuba/Colombia and they really enjoy expressing where they're from! According to research done by The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at USC, they found that "of the 100 top-grossing films each year from 2007 to 2018, only three percent featured Latino actors in lead or co-lead roles." Additionally, our lead character is a young girl, as well as the opening being directed, produced, and edited by an all-woman team. Therefore, we wanted to make something meaningful that is not as represented in film.
In reality, typically in Hollywood Latinos are represented in a stereotypical way. According to MarketWatch, "Some 28% of top-billed Latino actors and 24% of Latino speaking characters were portrayed as either violent or non-violent lawbreakers with 62% of these law-breaking characters taking part in organized crime." We want our project to represent a Latino family that is accurate and depicts what we actually are like.
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