As I mentioned before, I have been mass emailing the people at Televisa announcing my goals to be one of their writers. As I wait for a reply, I have also decided to email some writers from Televisa and see if anyone a. checks their email and b.gives a crap enough to reply. So far, no biters. However, in the process of searching through IMDB to find all of the writers of my favorite novelas, I stumbled upon the name Issa Lopez under Primer Amor a Mil por Hora. The name may or may not sound familiar depending on who (if anyone) reads this.
Issa Lopez is basically my role model. She rocked film school, started out with Televisa as a writer, crept her way into movies and now writes and directs what she wants. She's the reason for Ladies Night, Niñas Mal (Charm School,) and her latest flick is Casi Divas (Road to Fame.) This last movie is about several ladies competing to be the next telenovela star and exposes all the glamour of behind the scenes. Pretty much if someone perfect could help me on my mission, she'd be the perfect candidate.
So in vain, I searched for Issa's email, facebook, myspace, ANYTHING for about a good hour or so. Nothing popped up but her blog which sidetracked me another hour because I had to catch up on all of her witty posts about life. Her blog did, however have a little chat box which she had replied to a few times. Yup, I did, in less than 200 characters I spilled my guts as best as I could and asked for any pointers while at the same time complimented her on her work. I will check this blog everyday in hopes for a response. Other than that, I will keep sending those same emails to those same people.
Till then, check out the trailer for Road to Fame: Road to Fame
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viv,
ReplyDeletei love you and the fact that you have a blog that I will now promptly bookmark.
maybe the problem is that you're mass emailing
ReplyDeleteIssa Lopez here. Viv, Thanks so much for the faith... truth to be told, many of the things you say above are because of luck and luck alone. Listen, I cannot read material from anyone that does not come through agents and so and so because of veeery weird and paranoid copyright issues that I had to agree on, but, if you are asking for advice, it would be this: Forget Telenovelas. It's a rotten world, and producers only ruin your work. If you want to write movies, then do that. Take some screenwriting workshops, join filmschool.... all the contacts that helped me make my movies, came from there. Best of luck, and thanks again!!
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