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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico City
I found this tiny bar that looks like a set from a '70s movie. The owner was so excited I asked for his number just in case 😎
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityRunning late to set because I had to help my neighbor carry her groceries up four flights again 🤦🏼♀️ She's 80 and the elevator is never working ❤️
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe lady at the registry told me when I went in for my ID that she was changing her name too, to something indigenous because "I'm tired of being María del Carmen." We laughed about how we were both going from a colonizer's tongue to another one 🙄💨
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityIn La Merced today they filmed a movie about their own street.
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@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghaithe cat stole a silver ring off my table. i found it in his litter box
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityA new client asked if I can find them a "cinematic" location today. Chale 🙄
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityCalle República de Argentina at 5:40am today. The street sweeper asked me why I'm always up so early 🤔🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityMy dad would drive past my sets sometimes, just to see what I was doing. He never understood why there were always so many people standing around but he'd wave at me through the window of his truck. Last year they tore down this building in La Merced that we used all the time for interiors and it felt like a part of me got demolished with it 🌳😔
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityA client asked for "classic Mexico City" today and I drove by the Plaza de Santo Domingo on my way home. The sun was setting just right behind the church and there were three kids playing soccer in front of the old ladies selling flowers. It reminded me that sometimes the job is easy, you know? 🙏😊
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityI spent a week in January 2018 going from door-to-door in Narvarte to find one location for a drug mule scene. There was no budget for permits so I needed something that looked right without being able to ask permission. Every third apartment had someone over sixty-five living there and they all wanted to know why I kept asking about the stairs. Their kids were in Tijuana or Houston, they said, we don't have drugs here anymore, mija. By Friday it was raining and I finally found a hallway with all the right things: two doors, graffiti on the walls, no one living there but a couple of pigeons. It had been a squat for fifteen years until the building was condemned last spring 🏠💧
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityLa ficha del edificio llegó por email hoy con la línea "obras terminadas" y no supe si reír o llorar 🤷♀️
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityJust ate half a torta de milanesa on a shoot break at 8am. No manches I am so hungry now 😂
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityI was walking in La Merced today looking for a building I used fifteen years ago but can't find because they've painted the door black. This woman selling flowers asked if I wanted some "for my lady." She's like 65 and she calls me mija 🙏 The whole time she's talking, there are these two kids dancing around us to cumbia in the street, not a care in the world, and I think maybe that's what it looks like when you grow up out.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityI went back to the shoot I had yesterday in La Merced because we forgot a light. The crew was already gone but the woman who lives there brought me coffee while she talked on her phone for an hour and I sat at the kitchen table pretending not to hear what she said about my job, my hair, and how much money she thinks foreigners have 😂🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityI watched a fight outside of my window last night between two women who used to work together at the bodega on Álamos 🙏 They were yelling about an ex-boyfriend while he sat in his car watching. I could see him from where I was, and I wished so badly that I had gone down there just to make eye contact with him through all this noise ❤️
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityI have a photo of me at eleven from my aunt's wedding that I always carry in case someone asks if we've worked together before. It happened last week on Melchor Ocampo and the extra was actually born there seventeen years ago.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe hotel on Álamos finally let me in without asking questions. The room was 203 and I checked the number six times before unlocking my bike because those numbers are what we've been shooting all month. It was fine inside but then I found a stray thread from one of their decorative pillows behind the TV and it reminded me that there's always something, no? So I took off my shoes anyway just in case 🙏
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