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AL

Well, it was about a couple different things. We actually came up with more storylines and reprised a couple from the film as well. You don’t really want to make too much about politics, but it’s very focused on immigration. We want to talk about the people you can relate to. We want to create real characters, real personalities, real struggle. We made a lot of dramatic stories based on real struggles, real problems.

I didn’t write it alone. I wrote it with my partner, Julian.

TCM

Why did you want to become a filmmaker?

Al

It started with music, you know. I started recording myself playing music on our family’s camcorder, and as I grew older, the videos were better. Later, I graduated high school and I needed to choose what to do but I didn’t want to study music. What I was really, really interested in was filming and editing. I love stories. Drawing, telling stories, creating something from scratch. So when I got started, it just opened my eyes. It was a whole new world, and there’s no going back now.

TCM

Representation in film is so important. The first time I ever felt represented in the film