Your Energy Is Your Most Valuable Currency with Patricia Chica - Director, Producer & Author, Ep #129
Peter O. Estévez Show
English - June 17, 2022 07:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsEducation Health & Fitness mental illness addiction health/healthcare alcoholism self-help educational inspirational sobriety healing mental health Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
I love stories of Latin creatives who are telling the stories of our community and getting heard and seen. My friend Patricia is an amazing example of this. I met her at SXSW where one of her most recent films was shown, and I knew I needed her to come on the show.
Everything Patricia Chica directs wins multiple awards, gets selected at numerous film festivals and generates rave reviews. This daring, vivid and non-conforming Canadian-Latina director, writer, producer, editor and acting coach has created over 50 hours of content and garnered over 60 awards in her 20-year career.
Besides her personal independent film work, Chica has also directed and/or worked as a producer on world-class primetime broadcast content for networks such as National Geographic, Showcase, Bravo!, MTV, Oxygen, ARTV, CBC, CBS, UniMás, and El Rey Network just to name a few.
Patricia Chica was born in war-torn El Salvador, grew up in Montreal, did her internship in Paris and has had professional residencies in New York, Orlando, Toronto and London. She is presently in production of her feature film Montréal Girls. Since 2014, Chica divides her time between Montreal and Los Angeles. She is represented by MoJo Management in Hollywood.
Patricia Chica is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, Women In Film, FCTNM, Canadian Cinema Editors Association and Film Fatales.
You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in...
How Patricia’s film came to South by Southwest through Telefilm Canada (2:37)The importance of working three levels higher, deeper, and further (9:21)Why the higher realm is the key to functioning in the physical realm (14:35)How her family managed their emigration to Montreal (20:16)Why the supportive immigrant experience to Canada was so impactful on her life (26:20)The importance of telling your story of who you are today (31:27)
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