You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Nadia Dalamante's interview with the director for the documentary film Freedom, Carla Gutierrez.

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Hi, Carla, how are you?

Good, how you doing?

Good, good, thank you. This is Nadia with Next Best Picture.

It's really, really lovely to meet you. Thank you so much for your time.

I'm very excited to be here and to talk to you about your wonderful documentary and directorial debut, Frida, which is such a rich achievement.

There's so much to dive into.

And I just wanted to start by seeing, so your work as a documentary editor has shone a light on so

many trailblazing women from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and RBG to Julia Child and Julia.

And now we have this very intimate portrait of this iconic surrealist artist

Frida Kahlo. Could you start by telling us about your connection to Frida and what sparked

your decision to direct this film? So the idea for the film came about, I would say, probably three years ago.

But I have had an personal relationship with Frida's art for over 20 years.

I discovered her in college and I became obsessed.

And I know that I'm only one of millions of people who have this

experience with her paintings. But yeah, I, when I was in college, I was a young immigrant

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