Marta Cross, Virginia Novello, and Valeria Maldonado Interview at NALIP's 25th Anniversary Red Carpet Celebration in Los Angeles

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https://www.maximotv.com  Interview with "Sisters" actors Marta Cross, Virginia Novello, and Valeria Maldonado on the red carpet at the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) 25th anniversary celebration on Friday, June 28, 2024, at NeueHouse Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, USA. Reporting by Raquel Laguna/SUCOPRESS. This video is available for editorial use in all media and worldwide. To ensure compliance and proper licensing of this video, please contact us. ©MaximoTV

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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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