#GOTTA KICK IT UP MOVIE#
Menendez, the best part of the project was Disney's sending out casting directors and ''looking at Latina girls to be pulled into a movie and be part of this process and learn and present an image of Latina girls to all the Latina girls out there.'' The opportunity to start developing Latino talent at an early age is also what drew Ramon Menendez - the director of ''Stand and Deliver'' - to direct ''Gotta Kick It Up.''įor Mr. Though the real-life team became a tight-knit group with a few members who continued to pursue dancing in high school, the mantra ''Si, se puede,'' meaning ''Yes, we can,'' was added by the Latina writer Nancy De Los Santos and was chanted only in the movie. ''They were not just in my dance program they were in my science class they were in my homeroom they saw me a lot,'' she said.įor example, there is Daisy Salinas (Camille Guaty), a rebellious student who gets caught disrupting the classroom to dance on Miss Bartlett's first day teaching Yolanda Vargas (America Ferrera), who adds salsa and hip-hop moves to the routines and Esmeralda Reyna (Sabrina Wiener), a responsible dance member who helps keep the academic rules intact and often has the responsibility of taking care of her younger brother. Cole said she had actually come into contact with. In addition, the characters in the all-girl dance team are a combination of several girls Ms. The real-life dance program, like the one in the movie, included a rigorous training schedule and strict schoolwork rules.
Cole, like Miss Bartlett, the teacher in the movie (played by Susan Egan), had an interest in dance before leading the dance team. Watch Gotta Kick It Up, English Movie directed by Ramn Menndez, starring Camille Guaty, America Ferrera and Joanna Flores full. I have to admit this movie is a Ramon demendes film of wonder it involves dancing which is interesting because the coach of the dance team was actually a 9th grade biology teacher and it gets even more on interesting because the regionals was in San Diego so they had to set up a fundraiser and car wash to make enough money to go to regionals, and the most surprising parts of the movie is that. While not exclusively based on her exact experience, the movie is certainly related.
#GOTTA KICK IT UP TV#
Cole, who is now director for creative affairs at Walt Disney TV Animation in Burbank, Calif., a role that does not involve producing movies, came up with the story idea and started writing it up after her teaching tenure ended but while she was attending graduate school in the fall of 1997. All along, a main theme is learning to believe in others, a lesson learned by the teacher as well as the dance team members. Cole, are to portray positive teenage Latino role models and stress the importance of after-school programs. Gotta Kick It Up TV Movie 2002 TV-G 1 h 18 m IMDb RATING 5.6 /10 1.8K YOUR RATING Rate POPULARITY 8,255 656 Comedy Drama Family A school dance team get a new lease of life thanks to a teacher who lets them in on the secret of Latin rhythms for a big competition. That's why the two main goals of ''Gotta Kick It Up,'' at least for Ms.
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