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Sweatshop Girl
Section: Short Film Program
Director: Selma Cervantes
Registration: Inés works as a seamstress in a sweatshop where pregnancy tests are performed regularly. If she does get pregnant, she is sure her condition will discharge her. She does everything to keep it a secret.
Panelists: Selma Cervantes (director, producer, writer), Bruno Gaeta (cameraman), Iván Lopto (sound designer, composer), Daniel Lopto (sound designer, composer)
Initial screening: January 19, 5pm MST, Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
main quote: Director Selma Cervantes on the casting of Oscar-nominated actress Yalitza Aparicio Sweatshop Girl: “I always ask myself the same question. I think: ‘How can we be so happy?’ We had this idea of… it would be great if we had it. We couldn’t believe it when she said yes. So we just sent her the script and then we had to wait about a month and she said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ From her appearance in Roma You can see that she is very fragile, so I thought maybe we could do something along the same path.
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Writer: Matthew Carey
Source: Deadline
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