2006 | Color | 90 min As Magdelena?s fifteenth birthday approaches, her life is consumed by thoughts of her boyfriend, her quinceañera dress, and the Hummer limo she hopes will show up on her special day. Life seems so simple in her Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, until fate delivers an unwelcome surprise ?she is pregnant. Immediately expelled from her religious family home, she is taken in by her great-granduncle Thomas and tough cholo cousin Carlos, who has been rejected by his own father for being gay. Together they form a makeshift family unit that must stand up to social stigmas and encroaching urban gentrification that threatens the only neighborhood they know Country: Estados Unidos Direction: Glatzer; Richard, Westmoreland; Wash Script: Glatzer; Richard, Westmoreland; Wash Production: Clement; Anne, Boyias; Nicholas, Haynes; Todd Photography: Steelber; Eric Sound: Burman; Ellis, Vila; Mondo Music: Bock; Victor, Peter Robinson; J, Westmoreland; Micko Cast:Ríos; Emily, García; Jesse, González; Chalo, Guzmán-rico; Araceli Participation year at FICM: 2006
2006 | Color | 90 min As Magdelena?s fifteenth birthday approaches, her life is consumed by thoughts of her boyfriend, her quinceañera dress, and the Hummer limo she hopes will show up on her special day. Life seems so simple in her Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, until fate delivers an unwelcome surprise ?she is pregnant. Immediately expelled from her religious family home, she is taken in by her great-granduncle Thomas and tough cholo cousin Carlos, who has been rejected by his own father for being gay. Together they form a makeshift family unit that must stand up to social stigmas and encroaching urban gentrification that threatens the only neighborhood they know Country: Estados Unidos Direction: Glatzer; Richard, Westmoreland; Wash Script: Glatzer; Richard, Westmoreland; Wash Production: Clement; Anne, Boyias; Nicholas, Haynes; Todd Photography: Steelber; Eric Sound: Burman; Ellis, Vila; Mondo Music: Bock; Victor, Peter Robinson; J, Westmoreland; Micko Cast:Ríos; Emily, García; Jesse, González; Chalo, Guzmán-rico; Araceli Participation year at FICM: 2006
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Four 22nd FICM short films presented at the 64th Cannes Critics’ Week got a special screening in Paris 05 · 26 · 25
FICM presented four Mexican short films in a special screening at the 64th Critics' Week at Cannes 05 · 22 · 25
