Healing Generational Pain through Film with Lily Soleil Correa Lewites
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How do you heal your generational trauma?
In the latest episode of Ellas, Lily Soleil Correa Lewites is a multifaceted creative who doesn’t allow herself to be boxed in. Through a broader perspective, Lily started the path to heal her generational trauma through film.
She began filming her documentary The Sun and Everything. Her documentary is a letter of solidarity and a step toward healing from painful familial and historical wounds brought by the bloody end of the Somoza dictatorship in the early 1980s. A history filled with the loss of loved ones, political asylum, and democratic war efforts across three generations of relatives.
Lily is a professional photographer, model, makeup artist, and recent graduate from the University of California Irvine where she studies film and media with an emphasis on digital filmmaking.
In this inspiring conversation, I talked with the Nicaraguan-American multifaceted creative about her passion for her country’s history and expanding Nicaragua’s reach in the art and film realm. We also cover living a divided life between her Nicaraguan and American identity and combining these two personas to create more meaningful work.
Lily refers to this project to pave her path as an activist, an artist, a woman, a fighter, and a descendent of a long line of justice seekers. In the end, she hopes this film can fossilize a powerful moment in history and can offer her family an opportunity to heal from the pain of politics and power.
Listen to this powerful episode to discover how Lily’s passions have been able to heal her generational pain while providing representation to Nicaraguans.
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2:03 - We’re so close to reaching our first goal, help us reach it by supporting us at Buy Me a Coffee
6:36 - Many Latinas will relate to Lily talking about living a divided life from her Nicaraguan and American identity
10:50 - Lily shares the cause of the split of her persona and how she’s been reconciling with the version of herself in growing up in Nicaragua and her present self in California
18:18 - Listen to how Lily’s path in film began through Girls! Camera! Action!
22:40 - Work with Ellas Media to amplify your voz through podcasting with our podcast services!
23:30 - Discover how Lily decided to focus her work on Nicaragua’s presence and representation in film
27:30 - Find out how Lily combined her family’s work in activism with her passion through filmmaking and healing generational trauma
35:50 - Lily talks about how the 2018-2021 Nicaraguan protests inspired her to begin filming her documentary, The Sun and Everything
54:19 - “You need other voices to tell you that’s not true.”
58:23 - Discover where Lily sees herself in a personal and artistic level
1:00:41 - Go after things without apologizing!
1:03:42 - Follow Lily!