2020SanvicenteJair

Hello, my name is Jair Sanvicente. I am a recent transfer student from El Camino College
going into my third year. I was born in Mexico City, but I was raised in Compton and South Central.
I am a Chican@ studies major looking to minor in Film. I have a passion for Film and would like to
help grow the representation of Latinos in Cinema through documentary filmmaking.
Often times the stories of our communities are told from people who do not know our experience.  

I have not done research myself but I am interested in researching the impact that the new wave
of Black cinema can have on the Latino community. I think cinema and the arts in general is a field
that is looked down upon because of the amount of competition and the time in which it can take to
start getting paid well. But I feel it is important to be more supportive and resourceful to those in the
arts who don't want to compromise over their passion. Artist like Ryan Coogler, Barry Jenkins,
Jordan Peele, Mahershala Ali, Viola Davis, and Taraji P. Henson. Have been influential in bringing in
better representation for people of color in cinema and have played big parts in making cinema a better
representation of our communities. I think the Latino/a community still has not gotten the chance to
break out, but we have the opportunity to learn and work together with other communities of color so
that cinema shows a better representation of what our experiences and communities truly are like.