We want people to be able to move horizontally through story and vertically through character and theme. How important was that? How does that affect your life? Your world? Not just the world of the story you’re interacting with but you and your world too. Just like our character, Amparo - go back, see what you missed.
We make an immersive show and then we make an immersive instagram experience on the same story (for example with on Instagram) but it’s totally different - and what we’re saying is: get deeper into the story if you want to. But it’s not just about exporting story into different mediums, it’s about allowing the audience a constant sense of agency and perspective in terms of how they want to receive and interact with story. We call ourselves radical storytellers because we build universes and worlds with multiple platforms. So in other words, there are a million times when you want to give up= we’re just not going to do it.Īlright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally? It also helps that usually when one of us feels tired, the other invigorates, when one of us feeling down, the other lifts up, and vice versa… that see-saw is incredibly helpful to the equilibrium of a company. As the children of refugees, we think about everything that was taken from our parents, about how they had to start over, everything they’ve given us, the ladder and we go, go, go. This really truly isn’t always easy - it’s actually why we feel even more strongly about what we do. In the past, individually, we’ve lived long enough that there have been really tough moments where we’ve given up on something and regretted it - so we’ve committed to, together, not giving up. We’ve come to the understanding that even at the edge there’s somewhere to go and there’s always the possibility that instead of falling, you’re about to be airlifted to a higher mountain. When all of that happens, you sometimes feel like: Where is there to go? Just wiped out from sleepless nights and days out in the field and immersed in research and when deals fall through. When you really think: wow, are we going to be able to do this? This giant thing we’ve set our minds and hearts and souls to? When there’s no money, no funding, everybody’s disappeared because it got hard, when no one, not even those that say they are committed really are, when they are not putting their everything in and you’re exhausted. There are so many moments when you want to give up. Hi Abre Camino Collective, any advice for those thinking about whether to keep going or to give up? We had the good fortune of connecting with Abre Camino Collective Vanessa Garcia/Victoria Collado and we’ve shared our conversation below.
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