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Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 17I first started as a Press Manager for the National Premiere
of that International Short-film he filmed in L. A. Laura gave me an Excel spreadsheet with TV, Radio and Written Press list for me to start growing my contacts list. She also gave me a little spill, what to say when I called the journalists and producers to tell them about the short-film. I had to get
interviews in Radio and TV shows and articles on magazines and newspapers, to promote the upcoming premiere. Just like that, without even noticing, I started networking a lot and growing my...2024-11-0906 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 16It went on like this: Do you remember the great soap
opera actor Arnaldo André? The one from the beginning of this book, my dad’s
favourite actor? -Remember how seeing his romantic gesture on the show, my dad then
decided to visit Paraguay?- Well he was an actor my siblings and I really
enjoyed watching too. One day, I don’t even remember where from, I received the
information that Arnaldo was going to direct his biopic in Paraguay the
following year, that a man named Marcos was going to produce it locally.
To me, it wo...2024-03-1605 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 15Here I need to do a small parenthesis to link it with
another story I’ll tell you about in a few pages: By the beginning of 2011, a few
days before my first day of Uni, I went to an audition for a TV Commercial. I
had to say a few words about myself, so I said that in a week’s time I was
starting dramatic arts classes, and told her the name of the place. The new
Production Assistant, Margarita, told me she was going to start in that school
too. A week later we ran into each...2023-04-2104 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 14Well, back to my story: I did plays and shortfilms at school that year, as well we created with my class-mates and colleagues some amateur shortfilms. We did this to learn, to grow and gain experience. To seek out for our own opportunities, to create them. That’s how I spent all of the year 2010. Growing and learning in both acting schools and building up my resumé…
Since I was 18, I dreamed of moving to Los Angeles -The film capital-, and to live my life acting, in one of the biggest film cities in the world. -I even...2022-01-0709 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 13By the beginning of 2010 whilst I was doing my last High School year, I started studying acting for films with her. As I hadn’t graduated yet, I had to do a pre-University year. It’s like in other careers, when you take classes to get ready to start the career. I loved doing that extra year. I learnt a lot and I also met awesome people like Luz -who ended up becoming my best friend, and still is today-. Besides starting Uni more prepared, my Pre-U acting-in-front-of-the-camera teacher taught me something that imprinted my soul:
“You ought...2021-11-0507 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 12By the end of 2008, watching Gastón Gaudio play the final round at the Roland Garros, we all -my brothers and I- decided we wanted to play tennis, so we started going to play between the five of us. I was just back from the U.S. and had about three months off before the next school year started, so I signed up for a tennis class in the social club. That’s how I met Catalina, my tennis coach. As training and weeks went by, we got closer and closer. We became friends, so she started coming home, mee...2021-10-1805 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 11During my time in the U.S., I kept in touch via chat with my friends from Paraguay, specially with Ana, one of my best childhood friends. I noticed how she became very good friends with this new girl in school, Victoria. They seemed unbreakable together, all the time the two of them, in every photo. I felt curious about who she was. Funny thing is that Victoria heard all about me and felt curious too. She added me on Orkut -old social media platform kinda like Facebook, before it existed-. We started chatting a lot and we got...2021-09-2506 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 10It was very nice and subtle what we had. On my last week in the country, it was Thanksgiving day. We both travelled 150 kilometers away from the city with our families, but in opposite directions. My last weekend there and we were apart by 300 kilometres.
After dinner, we were chatting like always…when suddenly he was crazy to see me. He told me he was willing to drive for over three hours during the night, to come see me for a bit. He told me he wanted to see me and needed to. I told him that it...2021-08-1903 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 9So I went to live to Palm Beach, Florida, for three months. Actually the plan was to stay for six months, but causally there was a mix-up when I entered the country, therefore I only got granted three months. Thanks to not being able to stay longer, I was able to finish up the paperwork in time to go back to class at the same school with the same class-mates and to not lose one year of study.
To me, going back so early was awful at the time. But oh well, it’s better to seize th...2021-08-0705 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 8I did my research on where to study next, so I started an intensive acting-for-films course. Two weeks only, five hours a day. It was hectic, full on. I must confess that when I started I sucked at it, I sucked badly. Of course, I had never done it before, besides I was super shy. How could I not have sucked? But from that first day onwards…I confirmed that my true passion was to act.
Actually, people that met me after I started studying acting, don’t even believe me when I say “I used to be shy...2021-08-0206 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 7I was raised with my four brothers, that implies constant insults to bug and offend each other. But on some specific days all of them took it against me and in a sort of a chorus, called out to me: “Fat”, “black”, “Ugly”. Throughout my childhood and adolescence my brothers called me that so many times, that they distorted my reflection on the mirror, when I looked at myself on the mirror, that’s what I saw: An ugly, fat and black kid. Besides, at school people called me “lion” because of my big hair volumen, and eight out of ten people made...2021-07-2306 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 6One of my dreams is that all of us as society could change that mindset. I have faith that the change will happen little by little. Dreamers inspire you to dream, so the more dreamers we are, more people will dare to dream. It’s like joy, contagious. It’s transferred from one soul to another unstoppably. If you or me get to soulprinton one soul, then that soul soulprints on another one, then that one soulprints on another one more…then like domino effect, who says this world won’t be kind, noble and completely dreamer? After all, to dream...2021-07-1909 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 5Ok, where was I? In 2002 my twin brothers travelled to U.S. for two months. They had a scholarship in a soccer academy. During that time, they stayed with Pedro, a beloved family friend.
In 2003, because we have Spanish blood from my dad’s side, he decided to give us the nationality, just in case, and to do the paperwork to get all of us the Spanish Passport too. At the end of that same year, my sister Micaela and her boyfriend Hernán, got married and moved to Spain together, on their one-year wedding anniversary. If my...2021-06-2607 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 4As I was growing up, each day I was more and more serious about my dream of being an actress. When I watched films and theatre plays, I could see my self on the big screen and on stage. As a kid I always said I wanted to be an actress when I grew up, even though my parents thought It was just the typical “little girl dream” and they ignored it. But I was more certain about my dream each year. I didn’t do anything to make it happen though. I just saw it as a beautiful an imp...2021-06-2106 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 3Professionally they kept getting better and better. In the year 1986, they expanded and opened offices in Córdoba and in other cities in Argentina. During one of his trips to Córdoba, Felipe visited a little touristic town called Villa Carlos Paz for the first time and fell in-love with it. One year later, he secretly decided to buy a house there to surprise Beatriz.
Their business and offices were doing great. By the beginning of 1993, they moved to that house in Villa Carlos Paz. But funny thing, when Beatriz travelled for her graduation trip, in the ye...2021-06-1104 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesEpisode 2To prove you my theory of connecting the present with the past, I’ll go way back in time. I’ll start off with the 70’s. Precisely, with a winter afternoon in Mendoza, Argentina:
Felipe was about 20 years old, he was very enthusiastic and stubborn; among other things, he was a fan of the great actor Arnaldo André -an actor from Paraguay that succeeded in Argentina-. He was watching this actor’s soap opera from that time, and on that episode it was a rainy day. This romantic lead drew a heart on the window. In it, he wrote...2021-06-0407 min
Jojot’s CausalitiesPrologueHey there! I am Paola, but a lot of friends call me “La Jojot” -because of my Mom’s Surname-. I took it as my “artistic name”, to honour my mom. I am a joyful and positive woman, a dreamer, a traveller, an animal lover and a sunset collector. Art is the fuel to my soul. Ah, I am also stubborn and determined, when I set a goal in my mind nothing can stop me. People also say I am persuasive and persistent… As a dreamer I’ve decided to tell you the story of my life, dedicated to my dreams but...2021-06-0407 min