Check Out Sabina Tenorio’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Sabina Tenorio.

Hi Sabina, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
My creativity has been my most precious attribute and my favorite thing about myself. I always loved expressing myself through art, whether it’s dance, drawings, or singing. I always played with my imagination to entertain myself. Every summer, my parents would enroll me into a summer camp; some of them included sports, which I am not a very big fan of, but my favorite one, and the one that shaped who I am today, was at the Bellas Artes Institute in my city.

The program consisted of exploring all the arts: music, dance, writing, and acting. Dancing was something that I already had tried, so was singing and drawing, but acting was different. Whenever I had class, I never wanted it to end, I started learning how to live more present and how to interact with intention. I was so in love with all the possibilities of what I could be and all the worlds I could be a part of that I decided that was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. When the summer camp ended, I enrolled at the same institute to become an actress.

Coming from a small state in Mexico, there weren’t a lot of opportunities for me to act. Nevertheless, my parents supported me with this journey. I remember walking through the streets of my city and entering television stations to ask if they needed child actors. And they eventually called me, but it was local TV so there wasn’t a lot of room for me to grow. I continued forming myself as an artist, writing my own novels, experimenting new forms of dance like aerial silks, and continuing my acting formation by going acting summer camps in Mexico City.

When I finally had to make a decision on what to do for my major, I decided that I wanted to continue acting. Even though I was afraid, and thought of giving up so many times, my love for acting keeps winning. I love art, and I love expressing myself with different crafts, but acting is the one where my heart belongs, and I am so happy that now I get to do it for a living.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Since I didn’t live in the big capital, I had little to no opportunities to act in anything (play or film), so I decided to create content to express my creativity. And when this content started to get more and more views, I started to get attention in school. I experienced bullying from my classmates to teachers, as well as cyberbullying and sexual harassment from a very young age.

The constant harassment online and in real life, really got into my brain and affected my mental health. It affected how I viewed myself, how I talked to myself, and how I expressed myself with others. I stopped being me and decided to lay low, and I created this wall between me and others. This made me aggressive, because I stopped expressing my creative talents to protect myself. This made me really unhappy. I had completely changed to adapt to a conventional, traditional society, and I was miserable.

I decided to be happy and create art, and I began to feel like myself again. Now, more than ever, I feel free to express myself without shame, and I am not afraid to defend myself or what I think is right. In a way, I am grateful, cause all that hate made me stronger, because now more than ever, I am proud of my power and my mind. Now I see that they were just jealous of my creativity. Now I see that they tried to dim my light.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
Art is so powerful, and I don’t like to limit myself to just one form of it, so I create in different ways. But no matter what I do, I like to be part of stories that matter, with people who are not afraid to use their voice. We humans sometimes underestimate the value of a movie, a book, or even a painting. I believe one of the most influential forms of protest is art, so whenever I create something, I always try to tell stories about what truly matters. For me, it is all about making people feel, making people care, not only about themselves, but also about others and the world we live in.

I have been part of short films that I am very proud of, but my most important project is my thesis film, Luz, where I explored the issue of femicides, a major problem in Mexico and something that affects women all over the world. I am very proud of the story and the experience of creating it. I grew a lot as an artist and as a person. Thanks to that project, I opened doors I never saw myself in., I am so excited for the journey I am adventuring and all the new opportunities that my future has to offer.

How do you think about luck?
I think luck has always been on my side because my parents are by my side. I got really lucky with my parents because they opened so many doors for me. Their support gave me the confidence to pursue an artistic life and a safe environment for me to feel and create art. They never punished me for wanting to create, they always encouraged it, even when I wanted to give up. My parents are a constant star in the sky shining for me, wishing for guidance and my prosperity in life. They would always say how lucky I was in everything, to the point that now I believe it without a doubt.

To live in LA is a dream of many, and I’ve been very lucky to have this experience. Not many people get to study what they actually want. Thanks to my parents, I always had the choice of deciding my future. I am lucky because my parents made me believe I am, and therefore my artistic journey has been really blessed and so is my work.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.imdb.com/es/name/nm17263067/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabina-tenorio-8353a034a/
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sabina-tenorio?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Image Credits
Kyle Gill
Anton Sinitsyn