![]() At present time Gonzalez Vargas is a Founding Partner and President of Content of Gato Grande Productions, a newly founded Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer joint venture dedicated to developing and producing content for Hispanic and English speaking markets alike. In 2015, she Executive Produced the feature film Opening Night. She resides in Los Angeles, California, where she established her own production company in 2014, same year in which she directed and produced the documentary Alivio. She has also been invited as a guest speaker by UCLA on the subject matter of Mexican Cinema in the Golden Era. She has served as a member of the jury at the Guadalajara Film Festival and Los Cabos Film Festival. As well as multiple radio and TV shows in Mexico. Additionally, Gonzalez Vargas collaborated as a film columnist for diverse magazines such as Cine Premier and Milenio. Two more books of her authorship followed: The Routes of Mexican Cinema 1990-2006, and Mexican Cinema from the Spanish publishing house Lunwerg. Her first book: Woody Allen: His Life and Movies, in 2004 encountered a very successful response. “I’ve seen too many.Born in Mexico City, Carla Gonzalez Vargas started her career as a writer and journalist. When she graduates, she wants to work for a nonprofit. She also speaks and lobbies on behalf of the Greater Boston Food Bank. And she’s also giving back by volunteering with the student chapter of MassPIRG on campus, trying to make textbooks more affordable and educating policymakers about hunger and homelessness among college students. Gonzalez Hidalgo still cares for her mom, who can’t use her right arm. ![]() Now, instead of working three jobs, she’s found a paid internship in the athletics and recreation office at Middlesex Community College in Bedford, where she promotes club sports and other student activities using social media. “I love business because it’s so diverse – there are so many things you can do with it,” she says. In December 2017, with her mom slowly improving, Gonzalez Hidalgo graduated from NECC and transferred to UMass Lowell, where she’s pursuing concentrations in international business and marketing. And, after two stressful years of not knowing where they were going to sleep from one week to the next, Gonzalez Hidalgo and her mother moved into subsidized housing. She benefited from the Greater Boston Food Bank’s “mobile market,” which came to NECC once a month to distribute fresh fruits and vegetables. She was able to get campus jobs, first at NECC’s bookstore and then as an orientation leader and a student programming assistant for student engagement. ![]() Gonzalez Hidalgo, a natural go-getter, worked hard and found help. ![]() I don’t know how I did it,” she says now. “That was the worst period, because she was so sick that I had it all on my plate. She took a city bus to school each day and then shuttle buses between campuses. They couch-surfed and rented rooms while Gonzalez Hidalgo completed her senior year at Lawrence High School and then started on an associate of business science degree at Northern Essex Community College – on both campuses, in Lawrence and Haverhill. “I was studying full time, working three part-time jobs, participating in student government, cooking and cleaning at home and taking my mom to medical appointments to translate and advocate for her.” She’s still under treatment,” Gonzalez Hidalgo says. “I started school, and she started chemo. Gonzalez Hidalgo became her family’s sole support at age 18. territory just long enough to pack a suitcase of clothes for each of them.īut shortly after the move, her mom – who had previously survived breast cancer – was diagnosed with four new tumors, including one in her lymph nodes that affected her right arm. After her junior year of high school, the two of them came to visit a relative in Lawrence – and decided to stay so Gonzalez Hidalgo could take advantage of better educational opportunities. The only child of a single mother, Gonzalez Hidalgo grew up in Puerto Rico. “I went through those experiences, and if there’s anything I can do to help people not have those experiences, I want to do it,” she says. Yet she still finds time to volunteer for nonprofits so that she can advocate for college students who struggle with homelessness and food insecurity. She takes care of her mom while juggling an internship and a full-time course load. Business major Carla Gonzalez Hidalgo has her work cut out for her.
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