Georgia’s first Latina-owned production studio opens

ROME, Ga. — Scriptwriting, filmmaking and directing — Georgia’s latest manufacturing studio plans to do all of it with Hispanic tradition on the forefront.

Playa Azul Media formally opened its doorways Thursday as Georgia’s first Latina-owned manufacturing studio. Maria Guerra-Stoll is the matriarch of the history-making enterprise within the Peach State, weaving palm timber and a lady into the studio’s brand as a nod to its feminine basis.

She mentioned she was impressed by one other iconic manufacturing enterprise.

“The concept got here after I witnessed Tyler Perry,” she mentioned. 

Guerra-Stoll used to work as an architect at Tyler Perry Studios.

She crafted the thought into actuality, conceptualizing PAM after she noticed how Perry modified the leisure trade for folks of coloration. Guerra-Stoll now hopes that her 9,000-square-foot studio might do the identical for Hispanic and Latino expertise.

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“We wish to develop all these native abilities along with the faculties, and we wish to present jobs for the trade there. You realize, Rome is absolutely my proof of idea,” she mentioned.

In a earlier interview with 11Alive, Guerra-Stoll mentioned she desires to assist girls and different minorities achieve movie and tv to assist hold jobs within the state. 

Although her coronary heart is ready on getting her studios in Rome working, Guerra-Stoll additionally hopes to create different satellite tv for pc studios round Georgia.

For now, she’s engaged on getting tasks off the bottom and is already working with administrators for tasks comparable to “Visiting Olivia.” PAM can also be working with Nappy Roots, a Grammy-Nominated hip-hop group on their actuality collection “40 Akers and a Brew.”