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Captivating audiences once again in this crime, thriller drama, star Dev Patel gives another memorable performance.  Audiences aren’t lost in his deliciously good looks, rather they are taken by the creative storytelling. What Patel does as an actor seems so natural in playing a bad guy named “Jay.” Though, I question the thought in the times we live in, are we supposed to be rooting for these types of characters despite their handsomeness?  My guess is yes, but here Patel plays a stone cold professional criminal and something on the polar opposite of his noteworthy previous lovable roles.  The once young actor of “Slumdog Millionaire'” is taking big risks. 

In Michael Winterbottom’s Wedding Guest, “Jay” played by Patel takes us through crafty disguises landing him in Pakistan from London through India to Pakistan and back out again. The suspense is kept going through Jay’s ruthless killer poker face in various instances that begs the question, what would you do to fill your greed?  His kidnap victim blurs the lines from helplessness as striking as she is to Jay, and extenuating circumstances leads him towards love.  Snappy quippy kidnapped “Samira”played by -Radhika Apte, keeps pace with her lovely features and tough attitude. Audiences don’t know if we love or hate her because Samira is either fooling us all, and / or we ask ourselves, what would you do if you were her? And, are we empathetically feeling sorry for her?  Who is Samira? She is a lot of women...she is complex, beautiful and has to choose for herself at the risk of others.  For this Pakistan woman, like so many, she is set up for marriage, and does not make her own choices.  Samira is the one woman all women want to be, especially if it makes others in her community angry and upsets the status quo.

For the production itself, the pace and colorful choices are exciting to witness.  We are transfixed by the various types of middle-eastern cultures we rarely seldom witness.   The original soundtrack and cinematography are perfectly matched for this story.  As life imitates art, the timing of the events as it happens to be in real life, India and Pakistan are at a stand still in government politics over nuclear missile launches this February of 2019.  

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It’s time to get out as proud Americans and VOTE!! bloggerstyle represent @Mildredbrignoni,

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Life in Santa Barbara

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We have finally just spoken to some family and are now finally working on the logistics of putting together the fund for people of Isabela Puerto Rico. My family is fine, but still no longer have any clean drinking water. So, these pictures of the lush green land and aqua blue beaches of Isabela Puerto Rico will take years to fix and make a positive return from the situation today. But, for now they are all dirty.

The potential of the worse is yet to come. Since the water is crucial to survival, drones dropping boxes of water to devasted Isabela is only a temporary solution. Therefore this crisis is suffering long term rebuilding plans that poses a crises of skin and blood diseases such as hepatitis. Ultimately, this could make this area uninhabitable.

Sadly, we are hearing horrific stories of entire poor families without food in addition to now homeless.

Ok…so my cousin that works for the gov’t in Puerto Rico is going to help put together redevelopment infrastructure type fundraising for the poorest of families. This program I’ll be building the fund raiser for, will be helmed by the municipality of isabela. By early next week, we will help her (Isabela Puerto Rico) hopefully rebuild.

In speaking to my family, the thing that she (Isabela Puerto Rico) really is in need of is to rebuild people’s houses. Because some really distant, this requires us to provide aid to truly really poor people. There are seriously poor people that don’t even have a house to protect themselves from the floods near the dams they live near.

Our call to action is to fund their most debilated communities.

Stay tuned for the gofundme or other fundraiser platform.

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Actors Xabiani Ponce de León - Carlos José Antonio Toledano - Gera, with Marina de Tavira - Carolina.

This Is Not Berlin 

Sundance Festival Film 2019: A coming of age high school movie about a teenager finds himself in the underground night life in 1980s Mexico City.  Subtitled from Spanish.

This a really good high school story -  about a Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn’t fit in anywhere.  His family doesn’t accept his eccentricities, and his friends at school are too rigid. Finding a refuge in the post punk scene, he and his best friend Gera think they find the people that know the meaning of life.  As teenagers will do, they experiment with drugs, alcohol and understanding their own sexuality, this movie takes us through growing up as the odd ball.  Eventually Carlos finds his passion for art, but not without a few growing pains. Universal themes that takes place in and about youth in Mexico City.

Having lived through this particular same timeframe, the late 80′s were fraught with reckless living.  One can only imagine living in Mexico where drugs were easily accessible. Director Hari Sama takes us through a spellbound ( like that? ) of the club scene.  Many of the younger characters were feisty and fresh while others got a little trite.  But, keeping the story real, more mature actors such as 2019 Oscar Nominated Supported Actress nominee Marina de Tavira - Carolina, as a mom wisely portrays an oblivious mom busy doing her own thing. 

The hair and makeup is a modern version impression throwback of the 80′s than the real 80′s hair styles and makeup. Punkers wearing long straight shaggy Joan Jett hair took place in the early 80′s, but by 1986, that style had been replaced by (like my friends here ) gelatin, hair spray, manic panic colored mohawks. (Being a bit picky because some of us are also professionals in the film industry, this can be overlooked by a younger audience.  

A true high school story that was moving and daring. A true reminder of experimenting with becoming an adult through the eyes of young men and women figuring it out.  It reminded us of the painful adolescence fitting in or not. 

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Good feeling moments

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The beauty of Hidden Figures alongside other films demonstrating advancement of the African American community here in the USA, exhibits the progress our multicultural society has made since our founding fathers sailed across the Atlantic. For many of us born before 1970, far and few role models had been in the media.  Aside from actresses and singers, women of color had never read of, let alone dreamed of following in their footsteps in becoming a soccer star, aeronautical engineer, or candidate for the President of the United States. 

All but a few stories in Hollywood ever show women of color in powerful and less sexualized characterizations. In most recent pasts, films that put an emphasis on loving black couples and where the female is given her due respect for intelligence never makes it to the screen.  So, when Octavia Spencer tells an interviewer on Access Hollywood that the problem isn’t the power of “Oscar So White, it’s that movies are not deemed sexy in hollywood if they don’t prove to be a box office hit. And those historically big hits have been period European stories from affluent families.”  She goes onto tell the interviewer that “we {her and her actor colleagues } have to demand for better stories.  Many African American, Hispanic nor Asian screenplays ever get to see the opportunity to make it into the production phase.”  What could be more offensive, is that by many African American and Hispanic standards, they fight executives for more descriptive roles with the essence and spirt of a real woman.  And, if women of color aren’t shown in an alluring or matriarchal, characterization, they are dummied down. So when Hidden Figures was taken to the next step, with the help of one of its executive producers Pharrel Williams, and signing the leading role to Taraji P. Hensen, they’ve already made Hollywood history.

By virtue of demystifying Female African Americans that played a role in building NASA in the 1960′s, many future women of color will now know of others that broke the glass sealing throughout the centuries.  Leading by example, Sundance film festival finally awarded the best movie that should have won.  Nate Parkers’ jolting tear jerker and Sundance Film Festival’s 2016 best film of the year - The Birth Of A Nation, was the talk of the year.  Though filled with controversy because of the topic of African American slaves that finally united to take over their own history, besides the film maker Nate’s own personal historical drama that played out on national television as a tabloid college student court trial for allegedly raping one of his classmates and then charges dropped, our multicultural society is demanding more from our film/ television executives with a call to action that can no longer be ignored.  

2017 will prove to show a rise in films and actresses nominated for Emmys and Oscars. Not far pacing a few years back in talks of STEM among Hispanics was a rising topic at CHCI 2014.  Our female Hispanic government leaders addressed reform and transparency among complex topics women of color face.  Two years later, we are seeing the sun set on movies to empower our urban youth to go after careers outside of fame and fortune in the most typical sense.  Now too, Hollywood has more reasons to take and show outward position for inclusion and to have an allegiance with diversifying audiences.  A growing number of respected white actors are standing by their convictions for more diverse screenplays getting green-lit by refusing to do films without a black, hispanic or asian person in the leading roles.  Thus, an air of confidence is finally being instilled in many little brown girls around the country because they see themselves as smart rather than pretty.  

As it also comes at a crucial time in our painful last few years our African American and Hispanic filmmaking communities have to tell their stories.  And, though one should still denounce the deplorable conditions of some low budget filmmaking that sacrifice their crew in leu of getting the film in the can, one cannot ignore that unless someone takes a chance to make a film - even with a shoestring budget, it is important than ever to be able to show a film that cares for their audience and their local communities. Stories worth telling will win the hearts of all viewers.  

President Obama had more than once been criticized for his rhetoric during his presidency, but his unshakable determination to reform the Hispanic immigration system and health crisis “Don’t Boo - Vote” was spontaneous, yet it forced his critics to accept that their first African American President was astute. His delivery was unscripted and an effective call to action. Though not by design, President Obama has made it clear that African Americans and Hispanics ( people of color ) are demanding change and refuse to back down. Sadly, today crime is higher in Chicago than ever, violence in airplanes, and shooters going on mass shooting sprees more then ever before, one cannot deny that we all have to get behind the morning sun on the side of inclusion rather than exclusion if we are to be able to continue making films worth watching and that embraces all people.  A unanimous need to overhaul race relations within this country’s film making multi-billion dollar industry will only strengthen and better satisfy the world watching audience. 

Bravo Hidden Figures for making a statement. 

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Perfect weaves by indigenous hands

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Marshall - Official Trailer - In Theaters October 2017.  The movie is made by legendary Oscar Winning Producer Jonathan Sanger along with Director Reginald Hudlin, and myself as the Assistant Costume Designer.  

As a Latina, I am a proud film maker that helped establish costumes for specific scenes in the movie. That work made it into the movie trailer seen here.

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Life continues when you get up with a purpose to grow your spirits...so I do my best as I can to spread love and inspirational messages w #sharingcoolcontent even when I feel lonely at our #stayathome orders.

Don't get it twisted I'm human. I feel deeply and love deeply. I find the good in everyone because as an optimist - I want to be the vessel of forgiveness to allow others to grow while I free myself of their problems .when people allow others to grow up, the person growing has no choice but to dig into themselves. I allow myself to be love despite knowing that bad things can happen to good people.

A sober moment that I, like everyone, has an experation date on this earth. I can offer Best practice strategies on staying mentally healthy, physically fit, and creative that helps everyone feel useful....don't feel alone. We are all here together because we are all one.

Take the time to wake up and smell the flowers , laugh, dance, read and write to stay bright and alert. More important -Learn a skill that can help someone else. All these tools do work in breathing better life into this world when this pandemic is under control. I pray that we all come out of this a more self aware human that does good in the world

I think we all need to enjoy our life's pleasure. I like to eat 🍞, 🧀 but I also love kale, apples, 🥑 🐟. And I drink 🍷. We are all human .

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