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Synopsis
Born in Chicago and New York at the height of the Sixties black power movement, Women’s and LGBT Liberation, and the Vietnam War the Young Lords asked and answered for its generation the classic existential question: who am I and what is my relationship to America? In so doing, it challenged the age-old denigration of Latinos in the United States and their banishment to the shadows of their own country.
The Young Lords also captured the essence of the Latino experience in migration, and life lived between two competing cultures: the old world their parents left behind but recreated in the privacy of home on the one hand and the vastly different world their children encountered in America’s mean streets, on the other. The ensemble cast explores political themes in the context of a coming of age story about social rejection, sexual exploration, teenage individuation, and self discovery in the face of tragedy, friendship, and love.
Bio
Cionín is a two-time Imagen Award winning Latina filmmaker from Brooklyn, New York, and recently was the Showrunner on two Peacock/T+ unscripted series. She started her career at MTV Networks where for over 15 years she worked with numerous celebrities on programming for MTV News & Docs, MTV International, MTV Latin America and MTV tr3s, including as Director of two short documentaries on Shakira, and Director of MTV Cribs for 5 years. Later, as Supervising Producer, she oversaw a team of 40+ on the spin-off Teen Cribs, running the production of 70 episodes that were produced within three years. Afterwards, she worked as the Senior Production Coordinator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was the liaison for TV productions, filmmakers, still photographers and artists who filmed at the museum such as illustrator and author Maira Kalman, fashion designer Zac Posen, film director Peter Bogdanovich and photographer Mary McCartney. Recently, she was the story producer of the 2022 Imagen Award winning short film Lights, Camera Acción for American Masters (PBS) and the 2019 Imagen Award winning PBS Great Performances documentary John Leguizamo’s Road to Broadway. She is currently directing two feature documentary films while developing and consulting on content that touches upon climate change, disabilities, and the arts.
