CHC Chair Castro nominates 'Selena' for National Film Registry | TheHill

Castro believes that Jennifer Lopez (Jennifer Lopez) plays the Tejana music star in this movie

, "Touches the important cultural identity and assimilation themes faced by Mexican Americans when navigating to the personal connection between two cultures and languages." 

Castro added: "This movie has become the darling of Latino culture and has achieved widespread mainstream success, once and for all proving that the Latino story is an American story." Castro will be in the evening this month. Some time as CHC chairman.

(D-Calif.). 

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, The Film Registry selects 25 films every year to "show the scope and diversity of American film heritage in order to raise awareness of its preservation."

Any public can nominate a film, and nominations will be accepted for nomination in the 2021 registration form before September 15. 

Castro added that in addition to respecting the film that followed the singer and caused the singer’s fame and sudden fatal shooting in 1995, the National Film Registry should also “work to increase its focus on the Latino American experience. Or highlight the artistic and technical achievements of American Latinos in the film industry."

Castro explained: “For more than a century, film has been the center of Americans’ mutual understanding and our country’s history.” “Unfortunately, the continued rejection of Latinos by the film industry has not only affected Latinos’ participation The opportunity to seek opportunities in the industry has also affected people’s perceptions, stereotypes and often misunderstoods of Latinos in daily life." 

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