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Rita Moreno on Her Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It Doc: This Is the Dream
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Rita Moreno went for it and the message is loud and clear.
Speaking to an audience at the Tribeca Festival 2021 premiere of her new uninhibited documentary “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It,’ the legendary EGOT winner boldly said about the filming, “I made a promise to myself that I would be exceedingly truthful. I thought that was important… There isn’t one iota of bullshit.”
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Eisner/Lauder New Views Documentaries and Dialogue Series
The
2021 Eisner/Lauder New Views Documentaries & Dialogue
Series: RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT, and LFG.
This year’s series of films tell the stories of trailblazers fighting for representation and gender equity. The stories and life’s work of Pauli Murray, Rita Moreno and the members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team come together in this series to illustrate the past, present and future of the fight for gender equity in every aspect of American society from education to law, the arts to business, and sports to the pervasive gender wage gap. These films raise up the voices and stories of landmark litigation, breaking down barriers, triumphant success and the persistence and courage that move us towards a more just and equitable society. The series will be held virtually and will include post-screening conversations with the filmmakers.
Why the Rita Moreno Sundance documentary should be required viewing [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MOVIE-SUNDANCE-MORENO-DOCUMENTARY:LA]
Rita Moreno has received just about every major award and accolade possible for an entertainer most notably becoming the first Latina actress to win an Academy Award. But the actress, who battled the pain of typecasting early in her career and questioned her worth because of it couldn’t see, in the moment, how history-making her career would be for those who came after her.
“Was I aware? No,” she said. “And I wasn’t because I didn’t think of myself in that way. That’s iconic thinking. As far as I was concerned, I had won that Oscar and it was just, ‘Rita Moreno had won that.’ I didn’t know at the time, really, that I was representing [for a community].”
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Rita Moreno has received just about every major award and accolade possible for an entertainer most notably becoming the first Latina actress to win an Academy Award. But the actress, who battled the pain of typecasting early in her career and questioned her worth because of it couldn’t see, in the moment, how history-making her career would be for those who came after her.
“Was I aware? No,” she said. “And I wasn’t because I didn’t think of myself in that way. That’s iconic thinking. As far as I was concerned, I had won that Oscar and it was just, ‘Rita Moreno had won that.’ I didn’t know at the time, really, that I was representing [for a community].”