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Filmmaker; co-president of Wise Entertainment and executive producer of East Los High
PROFILE
Maurício Mota
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FROM Maurício Mota
The Business
'East Los High' By Kristin Marguerite Doidge The sacred tenet for almost any daytime television network exec is simple: maintain the status quo, and do what has worked countless times over and over again. Produce, rinse, repeat. You could say it worked...until it didn't, when we went from nearly 20 soap operas in 1970 to only five today. Enter the unique…
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