Held at Soulmate in West Hollywood, the event convened honorees including actor and producer Eva Longoria, activist Dolores Huerta, and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, and featured a musical performance by country artist Frank Ray.
Longoria spoke about her work on numerous Latino causes and said she has realized that “nothing shifts culture more than media.” That led her to take on more work behind the camera, including directing the 2023 movie Flamin' Hot about a Mexican janitor at Frito Lay who came up with the idea for Flamin' Hot Cheetos. “I knew I wanted to have the opportunity to tell our stories from our perspective,” she said. “But not for us: for everybody. So it's not by us, for us; it's by us, for everybody. I wanted to create heroes for us that look like us on the small screen and on the big screen.”
“Hollywood defines what heroes look like,” she said. “And they never look like us.”
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16 сен 2024
