“If I waited for the Gangs of New York budget, I'd be 100 years old before I got to make my first movie!” For her first film, Lissette Feliciano made an edgy, surrealist period-piece on an indie budget. How? It started with how she wrote the script. Traveling through time, Women Is Losers is the real-life-inspired journey of a Latina Catholic school girl in 1960s San Francisco. The film started with a chance conversation Feliciano had with her mom. “She taught me to work hard my whole life, not to complain and not to cry, because these are things that moms, and particularly immigrant moms, tell their children,” Feliciano told No Film School about the need one day to express her frustrations with the film industry. “So it was really a shameful moment for me to go to her, with my tail between my legs and say, ‘I'm doing all the things you taught me, and it's not working.’” Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 23 March, 2021