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Image: Courtesy the artist, featuring Paloma Valenzuela

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Paloma Valenzuela

Image: Courtesy the artist, featuring Paloma Valenzuela

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Jamaica Plain, MA
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Project Title
The Pineapple Diaries / Season Two
Fiscal Year Awarded
2016
Grant or Program
Creative City Boston - Artist Grant
Grant Amount
$10,000
  • Filming in Jamaica Plain, May 2016
  • Season 2 Premieres August 2016

The Pineapple Diaries is a comedic web series, written and directed by Paloma Valenzuela. The show centers around the lives of three best friends: Maite, Feliz, and Catalina and their electric next-door neighbor, Montserrat. They live in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Jamaica Plain in Boston, Massachusetts. In “The Pineapple Diaries,” we follow these dynamic women in their late twenties as they discover themselves, each other and the absurdities of every day life. The Pineapple Diaries proves that with Latina protagonists and a diverse cast of characters, you can create a show that is funny, endearing, universal, and undoubtedly relatable to many.

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