- Born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida, writer-director, Solange Morales draws as much inspiration from her Peruvian-Chinese roots as she does from the multicultural richness of her native city. Drawing from experiences of assimilation and the territorial differences abounding her Jewish-Latino neighborhood, she transformed these seeds into stories while a director at Columbia University's MFA film program -- graduating with honors. Her short film Mal de Ojo, a depiction of generational and cultural clashes within a single-parent family, was acquired by HBO. It debuted on the network's various platforms in the fall of 2016.
Prior to earning her master's degree, Morales served as associate producer on ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary, One Night in Vegas (2010), charting the friendship between heavyweight champ, Mike Tyson and prolific rapper, Tupac Shakur. She has also partnered with writers, directors and producers on films for Fox Searchlight -- including Notorious (2009) and The Secret Life of Bees (2008). Since then, she has worked on various TV shows as a writer's assistant, contributing valuable input to rooms like the FOX television event series, Shots Fired (2017) -- a social autopsy of a town like Ferguson. In 2018, she teamed up with her mentor, writer-director, Gina Prince-Bythewood, on a major superhero movie for Sony's Silver & Black. Recently, she worked on a show for STARZ, capturing the clash of dementia and psychosis within a Mexican-American family. Morales is based in LA and focused on developing several projects reflective of her Peruvian-American hybrid experience.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Pam Morales Worsham
- My parents come from underprivileged neighborhoods in a Latin American developing country - Peru. Their parents taught them how to survive their environments with integrity and moral fortitude which drove them to do better and want more. When they arrived in New York in the 70s, they used those same tools to get them through new challenges they faced. Eventually, they had their own kids and cultivated those elements in both my sister and me. This is not to establish that Latin American means we necessarily come from low economic status, but it is to say that most of us have experienced our fair share of adversity - either socially, politically and/or economically. Stemming from a history like this, you can't help but channel all of that in who you become.
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