Speaker 1: From executive producers Daniel Ramidez and myself Eva Longoria. Sisters
Speaker 1: of the Underground tells the powerful story of the middle
Speaker 1: of our sisters, real life Latina's who sacrificed everything for
Speaker 1: the fight for freedom, thinking about your children nearby and
Speaker 1: thinking about him and every generation after them. This is
Speaker 1: a love story between two and between a country and
Speaker 1: between the future because they knew they were fighting for us.
Speaker 1: So I hope that people see this and see what's
Speaker 1: happening in our country now and go wait, I could
Speaker 1: participate in a bigger way, Yes, because these women did.
Speaker 1: The young women of these were old need to see
Speaker 1: stories like this, creating an army of history around our children.
Speaker 1: The inspiring part was definitely learning the history about the
Speaker 1: Metabows and how amazing it was and what they've been
Speaker 1: through and how much they suffered. But they were so
Speaker 1: strong during this whole time. A most restan talk on me,
Speaker 1: monsieur b m Beneathos and welcome to the final bonus
Speaker 1: episode of Sisters of the Underground. I'm Daniel Ramides one
Speaker 1: of the executive producers of the podcast, and I also
Speaker 1: play me new the narrator. Today you will hear from
Speaker 1: some of the powerful voices behind this show. I feel
Speaker 1: very great to have partner up with Eva Longoria. You know,
Speaker 1: Eva and I share a passion for stories that will
Speaker 1: empower the Latin voice in America and in the world. Really,
Speaker 1: I know that this needs no introduction at this point,
Speaker 1: but here's me and Eva talking about it. It was
Speaker 1: really serendipitous because I had just met whole Maria in
Speaker 1: a random Somebody goes, you should meet this writer, and
Speaker 1: I meet him and I said where even he goes
Speaker 1: on Dominican And I said, oh my gosh, that's so.
Speaker 1: That's I don't need very many Dominican writers. This is amazing.
Speaker 1: And literally two days later, Dona sits with me and goes,
Speaker 1: I want to do this story and I loved like
Speaker 1: it to be all Dominican, Dominican sounding, Dominican writer, Dominican voices.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I just met a Dominican writer,
Speaker 1: and then I introduced you to Maria. And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: That's the thing too, that's my life's mission is not
Speaker 1: to speak for the Latino commune. I'm not. I don't
Speaker 1: speak for anybody. I don't speak for women, I don't
Speaker 1: speak for Latinos. I encourage people to speak up for themselves,
Speaker 1: and the way we do it as creators is finding
Speaker 1: those stories from our communities and giving giving it that voice.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what you've done so beautifully with
Speaker 1: this particular series, is you've got so specific with the story.
Speaker 1: Is not not even just with being Dominican and it
Speaker 1: being a Dominican story, it being about these three women.
Speaker 1: The more specific you tell a story from a point
Speaker 1: of view, the broader the reach. And that's the irony
Speaker 1: of storytelling, because it is you can't even make up
Speaker 1: this ship, right, you can't make up the ship that
Speaker 1: these women went through whips, chains, electric rocks, but don't
Speaker 1: give no, can calm down, get a lot worse. They're
Speaker 1: taking up still are family in a way, you know
Speaker 1: way it's like we are keeping them alive. You know
Speaker 1: that he wasn't in vain. Like a lot of people
Speaker 1: can look at this, you know, look at the story
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, look they spoke up and they're dead,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, but they're not. Look at the way
Speaker 1: that we're getting to tell this story. Look at the
Speaker 1: opportunities that we have so that our youth gets to
Speaker 1: grow up having that inspiration, understanding that that's what it's like,
Speaker 1: and being proud, being really proud of what it was
Speaker 1: then and what it is now. You know, the movement
Speaker 1: soon became a political force to be reckoned with them
Speaker 1: now because of her, women like us don't have to
Speaker 1: be afraid anymore right now. And this is Dominicano. I
Speaker 1: am very proud to introduce minutes, the daughter of two
Speaker 1: of our heroes, Minerva. Yes, yes, you heard that right,
Speaker 1: that is me New She's still alive and well and
Speaker 1: working as a politician and an activist in the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 1: Not surprising, She and a show runner writer directors Maria
Speaker 1: cal had a conversation about the journey towards bringing this
Speaker 1: story to life in this medium. I trust how's mydea?
Speaker 1: He's good, thank you? Meaning so, um, let's talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about the process. I remember I called you
Speaker 1: and and it was my birthday and you didn't know
Speaker 1: it was my birthday, see, and you told me come
Speaker 1: to my office and I arrived at your office and
Speaker 1: you gave me a book. Uh and that book is
Speaker 1: Mariana Dede Sick. And that was a birthday gift, but
Speaker 1: it was it was also a great gift for me
Speaker 1: to learn more about about Meno and Manolo, and you
Speaker 1: really wanted to point out that love story that me
Speaker 1: Nero Minolo had. I miss you more than anything. I've
Speaker 1: read your last letter so many times. I know it
Speaker 1: by heart, and I think you can really you can
Speaker 1: really see that in the book. You can really understand
Speaker 1: these characters. It was very good for us writers, for
Speaker 1: me and Mary cast Jans too, to really get to
Speaker 1: know in a in a different level, not only the
Speaker 1: the movements, what they thought their ideas, but how they think,
Speaker 1: how they felt uh and and that intimacy that they had,
Speaker 1: and how the struggles they had as a relationship, and
Speaker 1: and like in a way that human side that you
Speaker 1: can really see it in in in everything they did.
Speaker 1: They're telling people to watch out for us doctor Manuelo Tabares,
Speaker 1: whoso has recently married La rou the Red commun And
Speaker 1: it is also said that there is a baby. What
Speaker 1: the hell is this? That bastard wants to isolate us
Speaker 1: from everyone, but he won't. I won't let it happen, Mina.
Speaker 1: They were really human to I think that was really
Speaker 1: important for us, and that's why I called you back
Speaker 1: and I told you, I think we need to include
Speaker 1: the book. I think the book is important, and I
Speaker 1: think we need to include you. You need to be
Speaker 1: a character in in in this in this story quite
Speaker 1: a gift because that's a really true lost story. And
Speaker 1: it's not a love traditionally come on love love story.
Speaker 1: It's a love story between two and between a country
Speaker 1: read and between the future. And it's about fighting for
Speaker 1: a better work and being um able to give everything,
Speaker 1: even even the UH their own lives, in order to
Speaker 1: UH to build a work, a different work, a onee
Speaker 1: where people do not have to to suffer what they suffered.
Speaker 1: People that do not that are not going to be
Speaker 1: per sicking. I am thinking of them and every new
Speaker 1: generation after them. They need to be protected from this
Speaker 1: terrible regime that killed their grandfather. Remember they did that
Speaker 1: to puppy, to all of us. So you tell me, mommy,
Speaker 1: what's best to think about myself or to think about
Speaker 1: the future for my children and their country. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you guys a little bit about Maria
Speaker 1: Caral showrunner, writer, director. He's one of the most important
Speaker 1: Dominican filmmakers working today. He has directed over seven feature
Speaker 1: films and his movie would Peckers was the first film
Speaker 1: out of Santo Domingo to screen at the Sundance Film
Speaker 1: Festival in two thousand and seventeen. Meno so gracefully let
Speaker 1: Jose and co writer Mary Castelliano fictionalize her life and
Speaker 1: create a character who is passing this story on to
Speaker 1: the next generation. You speak for them, Okay. If I
Speaker 1: closed my eyes, I can't imagine the cries, the anguish,
Speaker 1: that despair. What I need is that you are able
Speaker 1: to capture the spirit, uh, and that you are respectful
Speaker 1: with it. It. Yes, we we had that into account
Speaker 1: when me and Mary were writing, and that's why we
Speaker 1: we did a lot of meetings with you, and and
Speaker 1: also we we used many of the testimonies. The Day's
Speaker 1: book also very inspirational, uh. And we we really wanted
Speaker 1: to be really faithful to the history and to what
Speaker 1: actually happened, so we took very few creative licenses. There's
Speaker 1: another thing that it's very uh that talks about the
Speaker 1: character of my mother. She was in prison, and and
Speaker 1: she was in the letters she said all the time,
Speaker 1: like bring me, please, bring me, bring me constantly said yes,
Speaker 1: So Clay Clay, did did you bring those cigarettes? On
Speaker 1: the modeling clay see, because I need to do something
Speaker 1: while I am. I'm here, you know, these days are
Speaker 1: endless days, and and she had no one single picture
Speaker 1: of me, So she started sculpting my face from her memory.
Speaker 1: Mommy was spent the next few months inside herself sculpting
Speaker 1: the memory she had of me, of my face. It's
Speaker 1: surprising how very much alike to a picture of me
Speaker 1: at that age is this sculpt that she did. So
Speaker 1: what that story tells me is first how much she
Speaker 1: loved me, how present she had me. It's just like
Speaker 1: you know, not as you would tend to think that. Well,
Speaker 1: she preferred to fight, and she forgot about no, no,
Speaker 1: no me, no, I want me thank Okay, yes that's
Speaker 1: a key g She had me in her mind and
Speaker 1: solely my father. Uh when when she did what she
Speaker 1: did because it was her responsibility, it was her commitment.
Speaker 1: She had no option but two fight for a better work.
Speaker 1: Look at what he's doing to us, Look at what
Speaker 1: he's doing to us. I don't want me to to
Speaker 1: grow up in fear. I want them to have a
Speaker 1: full life. Better. Their own hardships had one good result.
Speaker 1: It made them focus again on the revolutionary ideals, and
Speaker 1: so they began to plan. I was honored to bring
Speaker 1: her to life in this way. Actually, in the show,
Speaker 1: Adela is played by my actual niece, Gabriel Stein. Just
Speaker 1: a little fun fact for you guys. They meant so
Speaker 1: much to me to pass along this story to the
Speaker 1: younger generation in my family. You know what you are
Speaker 1: Mariposa too, and so are you. Mavie. There, Hey, podcast listeners,
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more interviews in just a sec.
Speaker 1: Stick around it. We got it. We got it is
Speaker 1: about reconnecting the dots for people now, and not from
Speaker 1: a victimized perspective, because I think that's the thing everybody.
Speaker 1: You know, we're all played in this big play of life, right,
Speaker 1: and so we get to have a chance to be
Speaker 1: vessels for a message, a bigger message for me obviously,
Speaker 1: and you can you know, I have my messages of love,
Speaker 1: of uniting or like I've always been like, how can
Speaker 1: I tell stories that make people really resonate with not
Speaker 1: just what happened, but what can come a bit? You know,
Speaker 1: you know, I get really deep sometimes I get it,
Speaker 1: but that it's important to me because I do. I
Speaker 1: feel like you've really provided me with a an opportunity
Speaker 1: to really retell the story in the most authentic way.
Speaker 1: You allowed me to have freedom to really, you know,
Speaker 1: collaborate with you on something that to me meant the world,
Speaker 1: and it means the world to a lot of the
Speaker 1: Dominican community. And along with Mikulta and and and I
Speaker 1: Heart and Julia from School of Humans came into this
Speaker 1: project and I cannot tell you eva like just changed everything.
Speaker 1: We were able to just really attack it from a
Speaker 1: place of sound like, what do Dominican people sound like?
Speaker 1: What is our country sound like? What do our fight
Speaker 1: sound like? What does our laughter sound like? How do
Speaker 1: we relate to each other? And we did it all
Speaker 1: in a very specific way to talk about our people
Speaker 1: because you know, and I think that's a huge thing.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to and partner with Joannie on this
Speaker 1: because just like just like the media and sisters who
Speaker 1: weren't afraid to challenge decades of oppression, uh and and
Speaker 1: lead a revolution, you know, Danny and I aren't afraid
Speaker 1: to you know, tackle our industry with representation. And we're like,
Speaker 1: here we go, get ready for the revolution. Kill me
Speaker 1: and I will lift my arms ever stronger even from
Speaker 1: the grave. What an honor it was to work with you.
Speaker 1: The Ray is an incredible actress. Wow, Um, I have
Speaker 1: worked with duty before. It's very rare that you have
Speaker 1: Dominicans in Los Angeles, and she's been my powerhouse here
Speaker 1: in l A, someone that I turned to. No one
Speaker 1: better than Julie Ray is as our So I mean,
Speaker 1: a room full of Dominicans is like nothing you've ever seen,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's it's not a joke, it's a
Speaker 1: show off. Somebody's teasing somebody else, making you laugh, and
Speaker 1: you feel at home immediately. You know. Once somebody threw
Speaker 1: in a a hole O go and yoka. Okay. It
Speaker 1: was a legacy and the Spanish it was on. So
Speaker 1: we figured out how to throw it in there, and
Speaker 1: whenever we had to pull it out, who somebody did
Speaker 1: an incredible joke, was like, let's do another one. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think one of the more powerful scenes
Speaker 1: was um when we got we had to sing the
Speaker 1: national anthems Ye, she's being arrested, um, and it was
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I don't know the
Speaker 1: whole thing. I don't know. You can't silence us our
Speaker 1: country's anthem. Says we have a right to be three
Speaker 1: come on me by one of us, So damn. But
Speaker 1: it's almost a yeah it is, and it isn't re
Speaker 1: education of US Dominicans and American Dominicans. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm American born, American educated, I mean dominicanized by
Speaker 1: my family because my first generation, I mean for me.
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons why I really wanted to
Speaker 1: tell this story, it's not just because, Okay, the meat
Speaker 1: of our sisters was something that I grew up with,
Speaker 1: but really I knew firsthand the effect that he had
Speaker 1: on our people. And I was born in them, and
Speaker 1: I am born in Dominican Republic, and I stayed there
Speaker 1: till I was ten years old. And I would come
Speaker 1: from a family full of women, like I'm one of
Speaker 1: three girls, my mom is one of ten. My grandmother
Speaker 1: had ten girls, two boys, and so the meat about
Speaker 1: story was something that was very prevalent and alive in
Speaker 1: my home. And so this is something that going to
Speaker 1: school in Dominican Republic is the first thing that you
Speaker 1: really start learning about UM. But I also saw there
Speaker 1: their impact within the women in my family because Dominican Republic,
Speaker 1: if you know, the country is um in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways, very male dominant and still till this day,
Speaker 1: very male dominant, and so coming from a family full
Speaker 1: of strong women, this was something that I grew up
Speaker 1: being inspired by my father. I remember him telling us
Speaker 1: stories about, you know, being outside and not being able
Speaker 1: like if thru he was making his rounds, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: even you weren't able to even be outside and chew
Speaker 1: gum because he found it disrespectful. So if he was
Speaker 1: out there speaking and you were chewing gum, they would
Speaker 1: like shoot you right then there. So imagine growing up
Speaker 1: in a time that that was a reality. Um. He
Speaker 1: made me have to grow into having a little more
Speaker 1: understanding from my father, and he's much books. I'm one
Speaker 1: of four girls, so I I I identify and I
Speaker 1: appreciate what you're saying. And you know, very anti Trugistas.
Speaker 1: My parents they experienced him in their youth and uh.
Speaker 1: And then of course it's part of the lord. Every
Speaker 1: time you brought up civil rights in the States, you know,
Speaker 1: my mom had to, you know, give me a little
Speaker 1: schooling of what she knew about. Oh no, but in
Speaker 1: Santo Domingo, there was the meta our sisters, you know, no,
Speaker 1: you don't know. It's like what happened. And and to
Speaker 1: echo what you were saying, the misogyny. So many women
Speaker 1: in the households so few men, and they have virtually
Speaker 1: no power because of the patriarchy, the times, all of
Speaker 1: that stuff. And like a middle class young women, like
Speaker 1: the metra our sisters going ahead and exercising their right
Speaker 1: to educate themselves, um creates a problem in a nation
Speaker 1: that's mostly women or has mostly daughters. I know where
Speaker 1: this is going. Yes, I still think it's not a
Speaker 1: good idea for you to leave home to study law.
Speaker 1: Thanks for your advice, and thank you for the car.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. But I'm a meta. But I'll
Speaker 1: remember I set my mind on going to college, Poppy,
Speaker 1: and I'm going right, all right, I'll be safe, Poppy.
Speaker 1: Don't worry so much. You know, I have a son
Speaker 1: and a daughter, and I think of my daughter when
Speaker 1: i'm when I'm doing this work, and I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: what she you know, how we would resonate with her.
Speaker 1: But I also think of my son, and I think of,
Speaker 1: you know, what his future with women would be like.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is, you know, it's just as a friend,
Speaker 1: as a partner, and you know, instilling that like love, admiration,
Speaker 1: respect for women in these young men is something that
Speaker 1: our nation needs. And I think creating an army of
Speaker 1: history around our children that that reminds them that they
Speaker 1: exist and being the example to our children that, uh,
Speaker 1: they can realize themselves as a result of people before us,
Speaker 1: and being scared is not new. It's okay to be angry,
Speaker 1: and it's okay to take action, do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? However, that looks for you, um um, that
Speaker 1: they're not alone, that they're you know, what we've been
Speaker 1: looking for. What brought us all into the business, you, Julia,
Speaker 1: you Dania, is that we're looking for someone who looks
Speaker 1: like us, who sounds like us, who is like us,
Speaker 1: but you know, through a different journey and experience, representation
Speaker 1: and representation of these universal themes comes in every shape, color, size, gender,
Speaker 1: and I think that's an important message to get across.
Speaker 1: But we have a lot of like intellectual, really smart
Speaker 1: educated business women who are actors in this room, you know,
Speaker 1: so that take in terms of the the class and
Speaker 1: the weight of these women really really uh, it's not
Speaker 1: something you can't you have to edit down or change
Speaker 1: because that's where we're all from, which is to your point,
Speaker 1: what the real talent is essential and talented people who
Speaker 1: often don't get the opportunity to shine in this way,
Speaker 1: let alone tell their story. We'll be right back with
Speaker 1: more interviews in Justice Sect. Stick around. Did we record that? Okay? Next?
Speaker 1: I am very excited for you guys to hear from
Speaker 1: these beautiful Dominican strong women. Gravio, Charlene Let. They had
Speaker 1: a conversation with our producer and Julia Chris Gaunt know
Speaker 1: what bout. Yeah, it's beautiful. It's even makes me my
Speaker 1: eyes here, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's a Dominican
Speaker 1: story led by females. You know, it's being represented and
Speaker 1: it feels good. You know, I saw Judy, I saw
Speaker 1: Heivy Keith. They Judy started way before us and trying
Speaker 1: to break through. Yes, and the fact that she represents me,
Speaker 1: that my character. It's amazing because what what it entitles.
Speaker 1: It's like her history and you know they were met
Speaker 1: about rags. She's nearly ready and the fact that she
Speaker 1: did it was so so much soul because she wasn't.
Speaker 1: She wasn't just their scenery and made a good actor.
Speaker 1: It was personal for me. It's very important. I told
Speaker 1: her this. She was the first Dominican actress I ever
Speaker 1: saw on screen and in a TV show when she
Speaker 1: was doing scrips and I would watch her every day
Speaker 1: and I didn't know she was Dominican. She just felt
Speaker 1: like family. I felt represented through her, and so many
Speaker 1: years after, you know, it just feels very full circle
Speaker 1: because she inspired me to be an actress. Whether she
Speaker 1: knew it or not, each of us individually had never
Speaker 1: given up in the industry. We have never given up
Speaker 1: on our country. We have never given up on the
Speaker 1: pride of saying Dominican in Hollywood and Dominican in Miami
Speaker 1: and Dominican in Latin America during the world. So I
Speaker 1: think he has to do a lot with that, with
Speaker 1: with carrying our heritage and culture towards a story and
Speaker 1: linked to our own journey as creative people, and it's
Speaker 1: our story told by us and US Dominican talents in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: We have suffered so much and because for Hollywood, for
Speaker 1: the United States, we are who speak ste Spanish or
Speaker 1: one flag, but we have different cultures. Of course, it's amazing,
Speaker 1: which is the beauty of the Latino. But as America.
Speaker 1: I tell you, I felt very proud in that room
Speaker 1: when all of us speaking Spanish and you and Virginia
Speaker 1: were the producers in the table. They had to just
Speaker 1: listen to what we're saying and take our our advice
Speaker 1: because we know better about our culture. To me, and
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, all this is another level something
Speaker 1: never happened when gona help its going. It is so hard,
Speaker 1: I mean, wow, but kudos. It is very important to
Speaker 1: know that bad as women like Dania Ramiers, Eva Longoria
Speaker 1: and Eugenia and you that represent a bigger platform that
Speaker 1: bad as women are telling the story as bad as women,
Speaker 1: and Hi are bad as women, you know. Like that
Speaker 1: to me is like okay, about time. Thank congratulations, thank
Speaker 1: you for trusting relieving in us. Yes, so it was
Speaker 1: you made it easy. Look at it. Where are we
Speaker 1: in a in a room right now? Right It's called
Speaker 1: Sisters of the Underground. So they were underground paving their way.
Speaker 1: It's exactly what we're doing now. Look at the building
Speaker 1: next to us in Netflix offices. It's like the underground,
Speaker 1: you know. So we were like here doing a raw,
Speaker 1: doing a real because like yeah, really is rare nowadays.
Speaker 1: So this is a very real, rare project, and nothing
Speaker 1: goes the way we plan, but we plan our way,
Speaker 1: we still make it. Yes, that's quite the thing that
Speaker 1: best makes me about these women, these sisters, was the
Speaker 1: bravery and the these ordinary women. I mean they were
Speaker 1: they were obviously extraordinary, but really if you look at
Speaker 1: their lives, they were three women, They had a husband,
Speaker 1: they had a job, they worked in the house. My
Speaker 1: hope is that it inspires people to see, wow, these
Speaker 1: three women became an inspiration for many. I mean, they
Speaker 1: were affectionately called Las Mariposa, the butterflies. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: they earned this um martyr status, and they were normal
Speaker 1: everyday people who wanted to see a difference in their country.
Speaker 1: That's all they want. They wanted to make a difference
Speaker 1: in their country. So I hope that people see this
Speaker 1: and see what's happening in our country now and go, wait,
Speaker 1: I could participate in a bigger way. Yes, But these
Speaker 1: women did. They started the downfall of trukil Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: over time they became the real threat to his regime,
Speaker 1: and they garnered national international attention and they put pressure
Speaker 1: on the government and go, if you look at if
Speaker 1: those three women can do it, in a in a
Speaker 1: in a place that has had true fascist dictatorship, I
Speaker 1: mean true fascist dictatorship. I think sometimes in the United
Speaker 1: States we sit back and we're like, we're such a
Speaker 1: great democracy and it's fine, and it's like, no, you
Speaker 1: have to pay attention. You have to pay attention. And
Speaker 1: I think, you know, political and social movements are fueled
Speaker 1: by everyday people in our country, and so I hope
Speaker 1: people look at this and pay attention to what's happening
Speaker 1: in our country to make sure that we never become
Speaker 1: that right, and that not only that you have the
Speaker 1: power to make sure we never become that. I truly
Speaker 1: do believe that change is inspired, not demanded. Bringing this
Speaker 1: show into fruition is my attempt to inspire the kind
Speaker 1: of change that I believe is needed in order to
Speaker 1: form a world that I want my children to grow
Speaker 1: up in. I am committed to shedding light on the
Speaker 1: pieces of history that have had a positive impact on
Speaker 1: the state of our current civilization. I want to thank
Speaker 1: you all so much for listening. It really does mean
Speaker 1: the world. Thank you. Oh My mom's from Dominican Republic,
Speaker 1: who's don to you. She's my aunt and I love
Speaker 1: her very much. I love you very much, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for sharing your love, your talent, and you
Speaker 1: are Amiraba. You are if I ever o one AK.
Speaker 1: Sisters of the Underground is a production of School of
Speaker 1: Humans in conjunction with I Heeart Medias, Michael Tura Network
Speaker 1: and Unbelievable Entertainment, with co executive producers Eva Longoria and
Speaker 1: Dania Ramirez, showrunner and director j Maria Abra. The series
Speaker 1: was written by Jose Maria Carrel and Mary Castellanos. Story
Speaker 1: by Dania Ramirez and Jose Maria Cabral. Lead producer and
Speaker 1: story editor Julia Chrisco Associate producer and first a d
Speaker 1: Andrew Harmon, Production manager Daisy Church, Script supervisor Sarah Montague,
Speaker 1: Recording engineer Clay Hillenburg, Post production supervisor Jeremy Gilbertson at
Speaker 1: Tune Welders in Atlanta. Sound design, mixing and mastering by
Speaker 1: Harper W. Harris, Assembly editing by Liam Marie Puffenberger. Jason
Speaker 1: Shannon composed our score, music editor Spenser Willis. Music licensing
Speaker 1: by Serio Marte, Lolaurenz A Louts at Big Sync Music
Speaker 1: and Natalie Brady at Texture Music. Marketing and design by
Speaker 1: Jasmine Miheia and Claudia Marti Corena. Our Incredible cast includes
Speaker 1: Dania Ramirez as Minotavares Miraval, our narrator, Julie Regues as
Speaker 1: Minerva Miraval, Jane Santos as Dona Chia Miraval, Celinez t
Speaker 1: Ribio as Deve Miraval, Charlene Chaule as Maria Presa Miraval,
Speaker 1: Acarriendo es Patria Miraval, Serio Carlo Es, Manolo Tavaris, and
Speaker 1: the radio announcer Pemki Malera Es Trujillo, Ector anibal As,
Speaker 1: Johnny Abs, Cabrila Stein as Adela. Additional cast includes juan
Speaker 1: Ja Alex Lynn Word, Jacqueline Calderon, Vido Mico Urrivez, Silvio Martinez,
Speaker 1: Ryan Parija, Darius de la Cruz, Marco Parra, and Daniel Lujan.
Speaker 1: Additional executive producers include Jossan, Maria Cabra, Mary Castellanos, Gessel Bances,
Speaker 1: Virginia Prasca, L. C. Crowley, Brandon bar Special thanks to
Speaker 1: Doug Boum and abou so far at I Heart Media
Speaker 1: Special thanks to Minoavaris Miravan, daughter of Minerva and Manolo,
Speaker 1: who is a politician and activist in the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 1: She also published the book of letters that we quote
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