Getting A Foot In the Door

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Anali, a young woman from Los Angeles, wants to break into the film industry. A local program taught her the skills of the trade and the language, but will any of that that matter in an industry that runs mostly on connections?

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0:00.0	This is Code Switch, I'm Shereen Marisol Maraji.
0:09.2	And I'm Jean Demby, so Shereen.
0:11.2	Mm-hmm.
0:12.2	You can watch the Oscars as we can.
0:13.4	I probably will, because I think it's going to be an interesting year.
0:16.6	Okay, why?
0:17.6	Why, you know why.
0:19.7	It's a way more diverse crew of nominees in the acting category at least.
0:23.6	We've got Jalice App, Adicio for Roma.
0:26.4	I love that movie.
0:27.4	My Herschel Alie for Green Book, I haven't seen that movie.
0:29.8	I'm not gonna see it.
0:30.8	Regina King, if Bill Street could talk, which I haven't seen yet, but I'm really looking
0:34.5	forward to.
0:35.5	She's the best thing in everything she's ever written.
0:37.4	Back to Roma.
0:38.4	Marina de Tavita was also nominated for Roma.
0:42.0	And I'm putting her in this diversity category.
0:44.0	She plays the mom in the film, and the mom is supposed to be this, you know, upper middle
0:48.0	class white Mexican.
0:49.8	But, you know, I don't know, would she be white in the US?
0:53.4	Would she be Latinina?
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