Most of how we tell stories as Latino artists centers around our experience, our history, and our imaginaries but what if we took our storytelling values and dedicated some of our work to uplift communities that are even more invisible too? Monica Medellin has done that for most of her career and is the creator and executive producer of Amazon Prime’s Surf Girls Hawai’i.
The show follows the lives of native Hawaiin women surfers as they train and compete for a spot on the championship tour. As a surfer and fan of the sport’s competitors and tour, I was incredibly excited to see the founding community of the sport be prioritized and represented in a sport.