- I didn't think Morales would fall in love with power like he has. He's trying to change the constitution; we told him NO, the NO vote won, we told him "you have to go in 2019", but he says everything is a plot of the United States. If his wife left him, it would be because the gringos came to Bolivia! It's a little bit like Trump, in this populist sense - he's trying to appeal to the lowest common feelings of people: greed and fear. So, I believe we won't have long lasting democracies in Latin America until the War on Drugs ends. The drug trade is illegal; it runs on corruption. We don't want the Americans to come back into Bolivia and kill our people; at the same time, we don't want the Chinese to buy our resources. We have changed one colonial power for another.
- I'm very proud to be one of the two woman, nominated today at the Rory Peck Awards, diversity is also about recognizing, and I don't think there are less women journalists and filmmakers doing our job and next year I would like to see more women in my place, half of the nominees.
- Another thing I want to tell all my fellow filmmakers from Latin America is that we can take the power in our hands. It's time we tell our own stories and find our own narratives and were doing it! I think it's very important that we keep doing it and that filmmakers in Bolivia start owning our own stories and telling things in our own ways.
- I'm tired of this appropriation of stories by filmmakers from the West. I'm not saying they shouldn't make films in other countries, but they should be honest about where they're coming from. A film by a U.S. filmmaker in Mexico isn't a Mexican film - just like a film about a black person made by a white filmmaker isn't a black film. This misappropriation of stories just continues with the same colonialism we've become accustomed to and maintains the power structure of one group of people over the rest.
- At the moment, when we talk about the war on drugs and the victims of the drug trade we think of the consumers, most of whom are white. We don't see black, Latino or Indigenous kids, who sell drugs as victims-we treat them as criminals. And that's wrong, because they are only doing it because they need money.
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