Roberto L

TV Lit Agent @ Verve. Los Angeles via the 3-1-2. DePaul & Notre Dame alum. Changing the game one submission and call at a time! (Views/opinions are my own)

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

@AaronSerna Those paletas were fire 🔥

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

@AaronSerna I see what you did there 🥸

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

@AaronSerna @moryan Exactly! Who can say no to mom! It’ll be the pitch version of “not putting baby in a corner”.

And she might bring pan or a gansito or some gelatina.

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

@AaronSerna @moryan Is the strategy to go pitch with our moms or abuelas?! Forget a pitch deck, let me bust out my mom to tell you how it really was growing up in the 80s!

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

@AaronSerna @moryan Uhm do they not realize Latin@s are predominantly Catholic (well if you were born pre-Spotlight) and if you kissed someone, let alone looked at someone with lust, your parents would say you were going to hell or something!?

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

This LOST article…. Holy smokes!

https://t.co/RajhjYiZuz

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

@damnparka

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

A good day to strike and picket! Great seeing friends - old and new - plus clients out on the streets of Netflix today! Oh and Cousin Greg!

#SiSePuede

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

Pay the writers. Save yourself 8 weeks of headaches, car honking, and creative signs.

That is all. For now.

But be ready for the pachangea on Monday & Tuesday

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

@brigliebs Mo on Netflix!

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

@iamfrancabrera But also maybe they might be receptive or open to it. Maybe not all of the shows, but some/most. Now if they don’t wanna watch the shows you worked on then 🚮

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

Such a shame. Diversity is definitely not an area of focus in the future plans of WB Discovery.

[Matthew Belloni @MattBelloni]

BIG news: Warner Bros. is shutting down its Writers/Directors Workshop and Stage 13 unit. Both are major paths for underrepresented voices in television. Big setback for Hollywood's diversity movement.

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

@itshelenmiren Right Ellen?!

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

Know what really grinds my gears??!

When people call me ROBERT and drop the O. Come on yo, leave the O!

It ain’t that hard to say!

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

Holy Smokes!! Say it ain’t so Joe!? This is nuts.

1 thing to consider & look beyond lack of Showrunners is how many writers fill #2 spot to help bring authenticity. Also shows created by someone Latin@ but Showrunner is not.

The leads tho. 😤 I’ll offline about that!

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

@iamfrancabrera “Most likeliest to win cause voters identify with” category

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

In today’s daily way of how else Latin@s are overlooked and overtly stereotyped in media….

Very shameful. We’re more than tamales and tacos.

https://t.co/SFEpJlq9tC

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

Did anyone know MO dropped this past weekend?! Didn’t see a damn billboard or commercial for it. And it’s so good!

Marketing team needs to step up for these amazing BIPOC/diverse led shows!!

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

@itsJustCharlie6 Heard you’re here for a really shitty moderate amount of time.

[Roberto L @WritingInDaWind]

News & decisions like these sometimes make me feel like we’re in a 2 steps forward, 2 steps back type of dance.

Gotta keep fighting for inclusivity to be achieved on & off the screen + with decision makers. It’s what motivated some of us to join this crazy biz! La Lucha Sigue!

[Variety @Variety]

How ‘Batgirl’ Axing and James Franco’s Castro Casting Highlight Hollywood’s Persistent Erasure of Latinos https://t.co/g4Lc6pgP5a