![]() ![]() The news of Alcaraz’s involvement was greeted with a largely positive reception on Twitter with dozens of his fans congratulating him on the new gig. Pues this is the way we get more raza directors, producers, by supporting projects that do hire brown folk! #coco He also claims that the way to have more Latino directors and producers working in animation is for people like himself to work on such films, a perhaps debatable claim considering that countless Mexican-American artists have worked in animation since the 1920s: A couple years ago, when the Walt Disney Company tried to trademark the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday, there was mass outrage from the Latino community, and Alcaraz was at the forefront, creating this iconic image that lambasted the Disney Company:Īlcaraz hinted that Disney/Pixar hired him on Coco as something akin to a cultural watchdog, to ensure that the studio gets it right when dealing with Mexican culture: Some of his Twitter followers initially assumed that Alcaraz, a respected voice on political and cultural issues related to Mexican-Americans, was joking - and for good reason. ![]() ESPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I am on the team creating the new Pixar Day of the Dead movie titled "Coco". ![]()
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