
Welcome to Breaking the Silence, a powerful podcast and YouTube channel that pulls back the curtain on Hollywood’s hidden truths. Join bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and blacklisted creator Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez as she exposes her 20-year battle to adapt her iconic novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, into film and TV. Through candid storytelling and insider insights, this channel d... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 5 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez reveals the shocking reasons Hollywood refused to sign on to a film adaptation of The Dirty Girls Social Club produced by Tyler Perry, even though he was the No. 1 movie producer in the industry, and the team had an incredible ... more
In this episode, I take you through the development deal I had for my bestselling novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, with NBC. Though the network itself did nothing wrong, the production company I aligned myself with, Encanto, made some questionable... more
After her bestselling novel fails to get produced at Columbia Pictures because the studio could not see past their own stereotypes of Latinas, DIRTY GIRLS SOCIAL CLUB author finds things are even worse in the next development deal her novel gets, at ... more
After Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's debut novel, THE DIRTY GIRLS SOCIAL CLUB, became a huge bestseller, the author got lots of interest from Hollywood studios to adapt it to the screen. This episode chronicles what happened with the first development deal... more
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez’s story is stunning in its candor. Her early years as a conservatory student at Berklee resulted in scandal, because she had the temerity to demand equal treatment for women students. As a very young journalist, she negotiated an unprecedented deal with the Boston Globe, circumventing their anti-Latino policies. She broke unfair rules, ruffled privileged feathers, and predictably, she was painted as a cautionary tale. But then she wrote a series of phenomenal bestsellers,... more
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