Award-winning filmmaker Patricia Cardoso becomes the first Latina director to be included in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress - NBCLatino
"For me, being one of the first Latinx woman directors is very important. But I would wish I wasn't the first one. I wish there were many, many more before me and certainly hope there are many more coming behind me," said Cardoso, who is a film professor at the University of California, Riverside.
the additions join a long list of films considered to be the nation's most influential motion pictures because of their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance.. A smaller percentage are directed by women of color. Cardoso has carved out a career in an industry in which only 4 percent of directors are women and less than 1 percent are Latinas. She is a member of the
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