Welcome to Brown Love, the show where we get real about all the things LatinX communities are talking about on your timeline.

Brought to you by Netflix and Kontodo.

I'm your host Dasha Polanco.

Each week, we'll be talking to Latinos and entertainment

who are making space for our communities

to see ourselves in all our complexity.

To tell authentic stories about our communities, we don't just need to see ourselves on screen.

We also need the opportunity to shape our narratives from behind the camera.

But in Hollywood, diversity in the director's chair is nearly non-existent.

According to a recent report from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative,

only 4% of the top 1,200 theatrical releases

over the last 10 years were directed by Latinos and only one director was a

Latina woman out of more than 1,300 directors over a 10 year span. One. That's just

crazy to me. The industry has a lot of work to do.

Knowing just how many obstacles they are for Latina directors,

I'm extremely proud and excited to be talking to this week's guest, Nadia Hulgern.

Nardia is an award-winning director and cinematographer of Vodicua descent, who was chosen

by former First Lady, Michelle Obama, to direct the Netflix original documentary

Becoming. She's also the director of Oscar contending short film, After Maria, which followed Puerto Rican families displaced by Hurricane

Maria in 2018. From her New York home, Holgern talked to me about her journey to

filmmaking, the light she's chosen to shine on her Latino

community, and what it was like following one of the world's most famous women.

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