- Dawn Garcia is a Southern Californian born and raised Latina. Growing up in a mixed race family, curiosity became the driving force for pushing boundaries, challenging the status quo, and devoting her life to the fight for equality and social justice. She started her career doing makeup, hair, and special effects, but soon heeded the call to write and produce.
She is a screenwriter, series creator and producer who has developed original TV series' and films. Her genres of choice are drama, dark comedy, comedy, and stories that explore the thread of human connection. Her strengths lie in empathetic story lines, descriptors and dialogue - both natural and raw - and while diffused with humor, inevitably she hopes to create work that empowers and shines a light on true representation in the industry.
She has launched 9 magazines, owns and operates 2 magazines, has a background in advertising for a major TV Network, production (pre-thru-post) experience. She founded a digital media company, and recently finished writing and developing a comedy TV Series for MGM Studios/Gato Grande Productions. She is a mother, partner, traveler, equality activist, art enthusiast and lover of life.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Eli Dupin
- Has traveled to over 25 countries and provinces, 21 states, and once ate live baby octopus in Japan because she didn't want to be disrespectful.
- If you dare her, she will 99% of the time say YES.
- She will attempt to speak any language of wherever she is traveling because the thought of not being able to communicate and meet new people isn't worth it.
- Was one of the first women to do special effects in 1996. She learned to weld steel and aluminum, use chop saws, and knows how to use a jack hammer to get through concrete, gravel, and lay rebar.
- Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema.
- It's knowing what really matters, what it is you're chasing-or avoiding-and what makes you feel alive that propels you into a place where your beautiful soul can shine.
- We are not who we come from. We are who we allow ourselves to become.
- In my life, I opted for the dream, the mental fatigue of working my ass off, of never faltering even when I wanted to. I chose motherhood over marriage, personal growth over making shoddy choices, being smart instead of giving in to being lonely. I chose to support my friends and colleagues-actors, chefs, publicists, agents, athletes, comedians, writers, filmmakers, lobbyists, social activists, environmentalists, dot-com-ers, artists, designers, visionaries-those that continue to break barriers, say to hell with the status quo, and who don't run with the pack, instead they lead the charge. I chose not to compete with them but rather hold myself to a similar standard.
I have opted for self-respect, integrity, and to fight for what is right. I have chosen to live a life I won't regret because being a woman-a strong, fierce woman, filmmaker and mother-means I make no excuses. I stand tall, work hard, know my limitations, and I play to my strengths.
I am highly imperfect and gloriously flawed.
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