The director, Aitch Alberto, and the author, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, both grew into themselves alongside their art.
and attended a briefing on policies for the Latino community. They were missing the White House tour to talk to TIME.a screening of their movie in L.A. Sáenz wrote the 2012 coming-of-age YA novel. Alberto wrote and directed the film adaptation, produced by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eugenio Derbez , which releases in theaters on Sept. 8.Ari and Dante
, set in 1987, follows Aristotle Mendoza , a surly, 15-year-old loner, as he meets Dante , an inquisitive oddball of the same age who teaches him to swim. The pair, both Mexican American, become best friends—and then maybe, slowly, something more—which Dante, ever-open minded, easily accepts, and Ari wrestles with understanding.
The director went through her gender transition while making this film. “For so many years, I lived a very painful reflection of who I was, and I was stepping into the joy of that and that childlike wonder of just starting to live for the first time as how I've always intended and authentically should have been,” she says. “I was living my destiny for the first time through the discovery of the book, which was in turn what made me ready to direct the movie.
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