This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.

Hi, Rebels. This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, the interview.

I'm your host, Paloma, and today we're talking to writer, director, and filmmaker Alexis Garcia.

Hi Alexis.

Thank you so much for being on the show.

Can you please start by telling us a little bit about yourself?

Hello, thank you so much for having me.

My name is Alexis Garcia and I'm a writer, director, visual storyteller, filmmaker,

and I currently live in Los Angeles, California.

That's so cool. And I'm a writer too. My favorite type of writing is fictional because you can

make up beyond stories. How did you know you wanted to tell stories through film? I loved the Wizard of

Oz during my childhood. I just thought it was so fascinating the way that

they were able to imagine a new world, and also how Dorothy went on an adventure that took place

in her dreams, but that we as the audience were taken along for the ride. I think that

was when I first started believing that I wanted to work in film and visual storytelling.

Aw, I love that movie. Putting film together takes a lot of work and a lot of people.

How did you decide what your role would be? The only thing I knew at that time was acting, right?

Because I didn't know that there was a director or writer. And so the older I got, the more I learned

about filmmaking. And when I was in high school the more I learned about filmmaking.

And when I was in high school, I did a summer program that was a filmmaking, a production

program.

And that's when I really had the opportunity to understand and learn what making movies

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