This filmmaker wants to tell you stories that, maybe, you haven’t really seen before

This filmmaker wants to tell you stories that, maybe, you haven’t really seen before

Times were a bit tough for Nahla Valdez’s family, so during high school, she figured enlisting in the military would be the most useful way to help out. Her aunt had another idea. “I was talking to recruiters and I was really going to do it. My tia, she was like my fairy godmother, she wasn’t struggling and was helping us a lot at the time. She was like, ‘You could paint before you could even spell a word; you can’t be in the military,’” she rec…