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Adelina Anthony is a critically acclaimed and award-winning actor, writer, director, producer, and teaching artist. They co-founded AdeRisa Productions and have worked on films, TV shows, and theater projects that address issues affecting their communities.
- On How She Got Her Start
- On How She Got to La
- On What Bruising For Besos Is Really About
- On Why Using Humor Became Necessary in This Story
- On Making A Deeply Personal But Highly Fictional Film
- On Being A Queer Chicana Artist
- On What She Hopes The Audience Will Take Away from The Film
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I started as an actor and I was doing work as an actor and then because of my budding lesbianism… I landed in Nueva York… but that wasn’t a scene for me cuz like I was a Chicana, Tejana. I got a lot of “¿Pero que tu eres, Colombiana?” and they just looked at me like “You’re this foreign it.” I loved that time because I got exposed to Dominicanos, B...
I knew being there that NY was not going to work for me and at the time, I was in my early twenties, I realized how much I had been shaped by Tejas. It’s like expansive cielo. In NY it’s like looking up at Tetris pieces. I was missing my cultura. I can still remember my comadres saying “Ok Adelina, you can’t say y’all here” and I was like “What?“ “...
There’s a long history with it. Precisely because it does come from the semilla of embodied knowing of violence within a household. It’s essentially looking at this young queer chicana protagonist, trying to understand how domestic violence in her household is being replayed in her adult life. Yoli’s addiction is mujeres. And whether queer or not w...
They are like the ying and the yang. As an artist, I’m always trying to bring in both. Humor is absolutely necessary in Bruising for Besos because if not it would be too harsh of a story to take in. Because I come from the world of comedy, I really try to add these moments of respite. These two mujeres ignite in each other unresolved familial histo...
It is deeply personal and highly fictional. One of the things that happens to us as writers of color is that folks always wanna go like, “Oh, that’s autobiographical.” It’s as if we never re-edited, transformed or imagined our work. We’re still working at a political spectrum where the white writer, the one that has been historically given the priv...
As POC and women we are always expected to fall into the passive role and to follow that. It’s like lets get our normative protagonist and let’s go on his journey. And we’re supposed to relate and quite often we do but the inverse isn’t true because historically and politically speaking our stories haven’t been given the space to be out in the worl...
It comes back to it needs to be medicine for us and sometimes the medicine is bitter, sometimes the medicine is candy coated. And it feels good, but if I only have so many days on this planet, if I’m just one artist who’s trying to work in this very specific framework then I want my work to matter. I really want to create films that we’re going to ...
Adelina Anthony is a queer Chicana director who explores the themes of domestic violence, addiction and humor in her film Bruising for Besos. She talks about her personal and artistic journey, the challenges of being a POC filmmaker and the power of humor in her interview with Remezcla.
Two Spirit Xicana Lesbian Feminist Artist: working on behalf of my peoples past, present & future.
Adelina Anthony is a filmmaker with 20 years of experience in theater and a grant recipient from Film Independent. She is the co-founder of AdeRisa Productions, which produces queer people of color films with an emphasis on X/Chicana stories, such as her first feature Bruising for Besos.
Dec 27, 2013 · For queer Xicana actress Adelina Anthony, laughter and performance is not simply an art form, but a healing process that breaks silence and speaks out loudly the necessary truths of love, pain, and trauma.
Jun 11, 2022 · Adelina Anthony is a Two Spirit, Xicana, Lesbian artist who creates characters and stories from historically aggrieved communities. She is one of the featured performers in the Queer Convos with Comic Creators series, a virtual event hosted by the Queer Cultural Center in June 2022.
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