LIVE from NYC: Immigrants on Screen
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
For this live show from New York City co-hosted with Alianza HBO and SOMOS Viacom Maria and Julio are joined by Doris Casap, senior vice president of HBO film programming and Erika Soto Lamb, vice president of social impact for Comedy Central, Paramount Network and TV Land, as well as Jessica Leonardo, production assistant at HBO. They discuss how immigrants are represented in entertainment and how the industry in changing to better represent diverse communities. ITT Staff Picks:
- The study done by The Norman Lear Center and Define America that explores immigrant portrayals on television.
- Why Netflix should never have cancelled One Day At A Time, via Refinery29
- TV shows struggle to reflect U.S. Latino presence, from Futuro Media familia, Nicole Acevedo of NBC News.
This episode was mixed by Jeanne Montalvo.
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| 0:24.0 | Hey hey, what's up in the thick listeners? |
| 0:30.0 | Mariano Hosa here. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey, Ete Tulio Riccalo Barela. |
| 0:35.0 | You guys, so for today's Friday episode, |
| 0:38.0 | we're bringing you something cool. |
| 0:40.0 | It's a little bit of a break from the insanity. |
| 0:42.0 | And it's a little bit of a break from the insanity. |
| 0:42.6 | And it's a really interesting conversation that we had, right, Julio? |
| 0:47.2 | Right, yeah, we did, I don't know how we did this, |
| 0:50.4 | but we did another live show. Because that's how we do because that's how we do that's what that's what we do that's how we do it. We went from Chicago and then we went we came back to New York and we partnered with Alianza HBO and Somos Viacom and we did this live show from Times Square in New York City. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, it was pretty crazy. We were literally right on top of Times Square. |
| 1:15.0 | It's one of those magical places, but we were having this really, really important conversation. |
| 1:20.0 | You know, because Latinos and Latinos actually, in this specific case, we were sponsored by Latino and Latinos and Latinos organizations, |
| 1:28.0 | but in the issue of their consumer power, you know, Latinos are incredibly powerful in terms of the |
| 1:34.9 | consumer market. So it's interesting that we end up having this conversation |
| 1:38.0 | with three super powerful Latinos in the world of media and entertainment and journalism. |
| 1:46.0 | Right. |
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