Hello, fellow artists! I applied for a feature film writing course at the respected and prestigious Sundance Collab and got in! I’m taking their Screenwriting: Core Elements course because I have an idea for a feature film, and this course will help me create a fully-realized treatment for it. I would love to take you all on this nine-week journey. I won’t share any proprietary information from the course, but I’ll share my personal journey/experiences each week to create a feature film treatment from scratch. Keep reading below 🙂
And just for fun, I included my answers to two of the questions on the application. Keep reading below 🙂
Enter a brief bio (max. 200 words) I am a fierce Dominican and Puerto Rican entity who was born and raised in a mythical land called Brooklyn. I attended Vassar College (which is located in another mythical land called Poughkeepsie.) It was at Vassar that I discovered that goddess Meryl Streep graduated from there. Soon after graduation, I moved to Los Angeles to find Meryl Streep. Then, I shifted gears and focused on discovering and applying my raison d’être: To open the closet door, and through storytelling, reveal another side of life that is usually kept hidden: Stories about Latinx and queer experiences, unconventional relationships, the notion of what is beautiful, etc. Since living in LA, I’ve written two feature films, two pilots and corresponding episodes for them, numerous short films, and I’ve pitched one of my series to CBS, Showtime, Logo, Here, and YouTube. I was featured in the Huffington Post’s Medium website for my weekly industry blog called Chasing The George. Since 2015, my blog highlights the journey I’ve been on to build the artistic career I want, while also sharing the advice and lessons I’ve learned along the way. Keep reading below 🙂
If your identity or background is a strong influence on your work, please elaborate on that here. I remember being 12 years old and telling my 5-year old nephew that I wanted to be Superman (Superman was the reason why I wanted to be in the entertainment industry.) He said to me, “You can never be Superman.” I asked, “Why not?” He said, “Because you’re brown.” I was crushed by his statement. I felt that he had obliterated my dreams. But as time went on, I couldn’t fault him for saying that. I ended up feeling for HIM because I knew his statement came from a lack of minority representation in the media. It came from a limited view of what we, as marginalized people, can do. And so I committed to changing the narrative so that my nephew, and all other marginalized groups, could SEE infinite possibilities. I write to out-create limitations and to create infinite worlds of possibility. I write to see myself, my stories, my voice, and my experiences. I write to be counted and included in the human experience. I understand the power of art to create change, inform, inspire, provoke, and celebrate. Writing allows me to do all of that and be my own Superman.
Chasing The George 