Scarborough's Catherine Hernandez on community-building through film | From Studio 9

“You finally see folks take the camera into their hands and tell the story they want to tell... it's empowering... and [programs mean] there’s going to be another generation of people to do so.” -Catherine Hernandez on the importance of seeing community represented on screen.
Catherine Hernandez (she/her) is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She is a proud queer woman who is of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, and Indian descent and married into the Navajo Nation. Her first novel, Scarborough, won the Jim Wong-Chu Award for the unpublished manuscript, and was a finalist for several awards including Canada Reads 2022. She wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Scarborough, which was nominated for 11 Canadian Screen Awards and won eight, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Her second novel, Crosshairs, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and made the CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction list, NOW Magazine’s 10 Best Books list, the Indigo Best Book list, and the NBC 20 Best LGBTQ Books list in 2020. Her third novel, The Story of Us, will be published February 28, 2023. She is currently working on a few television projects and her fourth novel.
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Love this movie and put it on for my youth team as part of a day long team building