{"id":5084936,"date":"2016-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/we-have-to-address-the-lack-of-a-pipeline-for-latinos-in-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T04:00:00","slug":"we-have-to-address-the-lack-of-a-pipeline-for-latinos-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2016\/03\/31\/we-have-to-address-the-lack-of-a-pipeline-for-latinos-in-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Have To Address The Lack Of A Pipeline For Latinos In Hollywood\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Photo credit: http:\/\/hispanicexecutive.com<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAlthough Arturo Barquet is living his American dream, the journey wasn\u2019t an easy one. His parents left Cuba for Puerto Rico before he was born. Determined to make the most of the opportunity they made for him, Barquet, who had always wanted to work in movies, attended George Washington University, trading his Hollywood dreams for a safer accounting degree.<br \/>\nAfter graduating, he landed a job with a major accounting firm, but the young Barquet couldn\u2019t forget the entertainment industry. He volunteered on indie films, ran errands, and got his foot in the door. He produced low-budget films, one of which ended up getting some attention from a major studio and eventually landed Barquet a job at Disney. Then, a script Barquet wrote about his parents\u2019 experience won a major competition. He financed a short film, won some awards, and moved up to another job at a joint venture designed to help Universal Pictures enter the Latino market. Today, as Universal\u2019s senior vice president and chief financial officer, he helps greenlight the studio\u2019s billion-dollar blockbusters.<br \/>\nWhile it\u2019s easy to glamorize the film industry\u2019s stars, writers, directors, and producers, it takes hundreds of dedicated employees working in collaboration to get a movie from concept to completion. Barquet\u2019s job is to manage the financial aspects of content creation for Universal\u2019s worldwide properties including feature films, stage plays, animation, direct-to-video, and music.<br \/>\nIn a typical day, he\u2019ll design the corporate structure of Wicked foreign tours, negotiate fees and services with the local Spain producer on the next Bourne film, discuss with production and filmmakers about Jurassic World\u2019s shooting schedule changes and their impact on the budget, and assess real-estate needs for a growing animation studio in Paris. &#8220;There\u2019s a whole world built around each production,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Finance\u2019s job is to set up the business structure so a production can operate efficiently anywhere we film in the world.&#8221;<br \/>\nBarquet knows just how hard it is to break into the business so he&#8230;..<br \/>\n<em>To read full article: http:\/\/hispanicexecutive.com\/2015\/universal-pictures\/?utm_content=buffer58036&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Although Arturo Barquet is living his American dream, the journey wasn\u2019t an easy one. 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