Julio Torres

This girl fund me, like got me where I needed to be within like two or three hours.

It was just so moving to feel like a part of a community.

And that's when I really, really realized that I love making art and all kinds of work in community and with friends.

And that's why so many of my really close friends are in this movie and will continue to be in everything that I do.

I came to the US in 2009.

And no, to be honest, my experience is radically different than the crisis we're all seeing in the news.

The crisis is very present in New York City right now.

But the thing about me and the character that I play in this movie is that it wasn't really the story of someone

escaping for survival.

It's the story of someone just escaping or leaving for a greater ambition to find himself.

And that is what I think makes the story very specific.

Yeah, I mean, to preface it, the road to finding a title for the movie was long.

It had many titles during many different points, and none of them felt completely right.

And then at one point, we were toying with the idea of calling it Problema.

which is just literally means problem.

And then I just, I don't know, I just felt dread calling this movie problem because it just felt so dreary and that's not the tone of the movie at all.

So then I was trying to find something a little bit more playful and I was thinking of what you would call someone in an artistic movement in Spanish, like a surrealist, this surrealista.

And then I thought, well, then maybe someone who creates art from problems is a problemista.

So I just sort of made it up.

And it sounds like, it almost sounds like the kind of thing that you'd make up in slang in El Salvador, sort of in the way that like,