From NPR Music, this is Alt Latino. I'm Felix Contreras.

And I'm Anna Maria Sayre. So every Tuesday in July get very excited, our Primos at PBS will present the Latino experience.

This is a three-part showcase of short films about the Latinx experience made by Latinx

filmmakers. The explorations of culture and identity also remind us of the power of indie films to accurately reflect our

realities in ways that mainstream Hollywood, as we all know, far too well, often misses.

Since the recent release of In The Heights has reminded us of the power of filmmaking to reflect

identity, we thought we'd use the

occasion of the PBS series to look a little deeper into the world of Latino indie filmmaking.

But before we introduce our guide this week, we want to remind you that according to PBS,

the series, the Latino experience, will stream simultaneously with broadcast and be available on all

station branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org, and the PBS video app available on iOS, Android,

Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Samsung Smart TV, and Chromecast.

All of that is important to know because you want to be able to see these films.

Now, let's meet our first guest this week.

Hello, my name is Carla Legaspie, and I'm a filmmaker here based in LA.

Carla is one of the 13 filmmakers featured in the PBS series,

The Latino Experience,

and in her conversation with Felix,

she tells us about her film.

The name of my film is The Daily War,

and it is a story about a single mother veteran,

just a day in her life of raising her son and just one of those days where she realizes she's low in funds and promised a beach day for the child.

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