Adrian Manzano is interested in making films in the same vein as Woody Allen’s, but only the Latino-American-experience-in-New-York-City-version of such. “Do you know Ava Duvernay?” asks the Colombian American filmmaker, to which I obviously replied “of course.” “She’s killing it; I’ve met her [Duvernay] twice. She says ‘cast those who you love,’” Manzano explains, “when you’re on a string budget, it’s extremely hard and you have to work as a team.”
The filmmaker hired Dominican actress Sofia Rodriguez – who had a prominent role in his first film “Sex, Love and Salsa” – as the lead of his sophomore film “La Gradua” (The Graduate), about a young woman, living in NYC’s…
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