A real woman speaks Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Josefina Lopez will discuss the deep divide between women as portrayed in the media and women as they really are, in the next Voices of Vision Series program. “Real Women and Other Unseen Images in Hollywood” will take place Tuesday, March 2, in Beckman Auditorium. Lopez’s film, Real Women Have Curves, will screen at 6:30 p.m., and her talk will begin at 8 p.m. Lopez’s experiences growing up in East Los Angeles and as a sewing-factory worker inspired her play Real Women Have Curves. It premiered in San Francisco in 1990 and was performed numerous times across the country before she and producer George LaVoo converted it into a film script. In 2002 the screenplay received the Humanitas Award, and the film received the Dramatic Audience Award and a Special Acting Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Lopez, who credits her creative inspiration to the vibrant and diverse culture in which she grew up, wrote her first play at age 17, the Emmy Award–winning Simply Maria, or the American Dream. After graduating from Columbia College in 1993, she earned an MFA in screen-writing at UCLA’s Film and Television School. She teaches writing and digital filmmaking to Latino youth at CASA 0101, an art space she founded in Boyle Heights. For more information, contact Public Events at 1 (888) 2CALTECH, (626) 395-4652, or events@caltech.edu, or visit www.events.caltech.edu. Individuals with a disability can call 395-4688 (voice) or 395-3700 (TDD). The series is cosponsored by the Caltech Employees Federal Credit Union and the San Gabriel Valley Newsgroup. •

A real woman speaks

Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Josefina Lopez will discuss the deep divide between women as portrayed in the media and women as they really are, in the next Voices of Vision Series program. “Real Women and Other Unseen Images in Hollywood” will take place Tuesday, March 2, in Beckman Auditorium. Lopez’s film, Real Women Have Curves, will screen at 6:30 p.m., and her talk will begin at 8 p.m.

Lopez’s experiences growing up in East Los Angeles and as a sewing-factory worker inspired her play Real Women Have Curves. It premiered in San Francisco in 1990 and was performed numerous times across the country before she and producer George LaVoo converted it into a film script. In 2002 the screenplay received the Humanitas Award, and the film received the Dramatic Audience Award and a Special Acting Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Lopez, who credits her creative inspiration to the vibrant and diverse culture in which she grew up, wrote her first play at age 17, the Emmy Award–winning Simply Maria, or the American Dream. After graduating from Columbia College in 1993, she earned an MFA in screen-writing at UCLA’s Film and Television School. She teaches writing and digital filmmaking to Latino youth at CASA 0101, an art space she founded in Boyle Heights.

For more information, contact Public Events at 1 (888) 2CALTECH, (626) 395-4652, or events@caltech.edu, or visit www.events.caltech.edu. Individuals with a disability can call 395-4688 (voice) or 395-3700 (TDD). The series is cosponsored by the Caltech Employees Federal Credit Union and the San Gabriel Valley Newsgroup.
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