...la gente de la Patrona
If you were given $10 million to be used for moviemaking, how would you spend it?
There is this idea that with video format, films are now democratized. That practically anyone can grab their camera and tell what they want. I believe this is not so. Immigrants do not have access to making their own movies, indigenous people don't either. So media and films are still controlled by the ones who have the money. With $10 million dollars I would buy cameras and give free workshops to several marginal groups in order for them to tell their own stories, in order to try to revert who gets to tell the stories.
- Tin Dirdamal (interview by Indiewire 1/21/06)
