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It Was Always Me: Behind the Story

Name: It Was Always Me: Behind the Story
Director: Marco Colantoni
Released: 2022
Duration: 31 min

Representation Score

5.1/10

Fair

2022

TV-MA

Director

Marco Colantoni

Runtime

31 minutes

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The documentary serves as a professional retrospective that strips away polished industry veneers. It succeeds by centering Latin American talent and offering a transparent, unmediated look at the creative process through raw, actor-recorded footage. However, the film lacks engagement with diverse identity politics. It functions primarily as a look at professional craft rather than a tool for challenging social hierarchies or addressing specific identity-driven narratives. Ultimately, while it provides meaningful representation for its cast, the absence of queer themes or disability representation keeps the score in a moderate range.

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Category Breakdown

Does It Was Always Me: Behind the Story have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The documentary does not explicitly mention LGBTQ+ characters or narratives. It focuses on the professional relationship between the leads, Sevilla and Bueno, without addressing queer themes.

How does It Was Always Me: Behind the Story portray gender?

Fair

The film highlights Karol Sevilla's professional role and centers her perspective. While it avoids traditional hierarchies by balancing the struggles of both male and female characters, it still leans into traditional interpersonal dynamics.

How racially and ethnically diverse is It Was Always Me: Behind the Story?

Good

The production centers Latin American performers, providing a platform for these actors to discuss their craft. This elevates non-Anglo-Saxon voices within the mainstream media industry.

How does It Was Always Me: Behind the Story represent religion and culture?

Fair

By using self-recorded footage, the film disrupts controlled Western institutional models of media production. It moves toward decentralized storytelling, though it avoids specific secularist or anti-capitalist themes.

Does It Was Always Me: Behind the Story include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no evidence regarding the portrayal of visible or invisible disabilities. No characters or subjects are identified as having disabilities in the provided material.

Present on Screen

Centers Latin American performers and elevates non-Anglo-Saxon voices.
Provides a transparent look at the creative process through raw, unmediated footage.
Avoids traditional gender hierarchies by balancing the struggles of all leads equally.

Limited or Absent

Lacks explicit engagement with LGBTQ+ narratives or queer themes.
Does not address or represent visible or invisible disabilities.
Fails to challenge traditional gendered power structures or interpersonal dynamics.

Official Synopsis

Karol Sevilla and Pipe Bueno talk about their on-screen chemistry and the challenge Pipe faced when taking on a lead role. Christian Tappan talks about how he took on the challenge of representing his character. Exclusive off-screen material, videos recorded by the actors themselves on their phones, and records of castings and rehearsals will be unveiled.

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