Seeing Cultural Data Liberates Storytelling

Description:

Narratives from native production teams throughout the Spanish-speaking world are gaining momentum thanks to streaming platforms. They thrive because they have implicit local meaning. Persistent ideological truths give them credibility to endure - especially where stories are hardest to tell. Consider Venezuela, where a sci-fi about a power outage and ensuing paranoia is in production. Or Argentina, where a female-driven revenge thriller is filming. The desire for social resonance places great responsibility on storytellers to pull through threads of meaning. Stories that have local meaning today are stories waiting to be heard elsewhere on the world stage. Emerging methods for visualizing data from cultural systems are helping creators better understand ideologies and spark inspiration.