Hollywood lives a stage in which it is impossible to ignore minorities – The EC Republic

With "Blindspotting", an acclaimed film in the United States. On the subject of racism and police brutality, the Mexican director Carlos López Estrada debuts at the front of a feature film and tells Efe that Hollywood is in a phase where he can not turn his back on they do not feel represented.

" It seems to me that we are entering a stage in the history of Hollywood where it is impossible to ignore all the voices that have felt minorities, which lacked representation "says the director.

"And if everything continues to move in this direction, I think that in the next ten or fifteen years we will see a big explosion of this kind of stories, because the limit has arrived in which the movies they have focused on a very specific group of people, which is not really a cultural mirror of what is happening in this country, "he added.

Inequality, violence, racial discrimination, gentrification and brutality The police shake hands in the ambitious story of "Blindspotting", interpreted and written by Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, who, after being released on a limited basis in cities like New York and Los Angeles last Friday, will arrive this weekend to the screens of all the country.

This band, which participated in the Sundance Independent Film Festival, centers on Collin (Diggs), an African-American young person who faces the last three days of his provisional release when street homicide 39, a black man by a policeman.

As Collin decides what to do, the film follows in her footsteps with Miles (Casal) connecting precarious jobs, racist and clbadist attitudes and witnessing social and neighborhood changes.

López Estrada (Mexico, 1988), who grew up in the United States and who, until now, was featured in the making of music videos. a lineage closely linked to the culture: his mother is the TV producer Carla Estrada and her grandmother is actress Maty Huitrón.

" I grew up in a very interesting environment : spent my weekends in the theater with my grandmother or I went to see my mother when she Recorded . Since I was small had a pbadion for the theater for the cameras for the art and when I had to decide where to J 's. was going to go with my career and it was very easy for me to enter the world of cinema . "

For his debut, López Estrada said that he had Diggs and Casal, who I already knew the previous work, it was very interesting.

"It helped us a lot because it was our first long project: they writers and actors and for me directing (…) Making a film is a difficult task but I think The least complicated way to the attacking is to be able to do it as a team. "

" Blindspotting "is based on the experiences of Diggs and Casal in the city of Oakland (California, USA), something like the sister worker and modest of San Francisco with an important history of conflicts and claims " Talking about a community of people of color in the United States, that makes me important (…). These ideas of being in a place and feeling alien, of not being able to be part of a community because of race, culture or language, are ideas that resonated with me Changes of tone, intertwining of the drama with humor, something that has to do with both films s that have most marked the shooting: "Do the Right Thing" (1989) by Spike Lee and "The Shining" (1980) by Stanley Kubrick

"This is a good example of the contrast that the film presents . He has social elements, comedy, hyperrealism, but also an introspective search of the main character, who begins to question everything that surrounds him, "he said [19659003] and in "Blindspotting" one can start from a hilarious scene the protagonists discover that the shop at the corner of the street sells hydrophobic juice to another in which Collin walks, followed by a patrol vehicle , terrified that something could happen just because it's black

"No matter how much you see it. In the news, even if you listen to anecdotes, you will never understand it. It's something we can talk about, but this fear that they explain (African-Americans) when they see a policeman, this lack of protection, is hard to understand, " admitted the director. EFE

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