Entre Nos
plus director Q&A
UK PREMIERE
Filmmaker: Paola Mendoza, Gloria La Morte
US / 80 min / Part Subtitled
ICA Cinema 1, Fri March 5, 8.30pm & ICA Cinema 2, Sat March 6, 8.30pm
Stunning acting and compelling story come together in this true story of a Colombian family’s survival on the streets of New York.
Abandoned by their husband/father, young Colombian Mariana and her two children are thrown out onto the hot Summer streets of Queens, NY. This gripping and tender, superbly acted drama is based on a true story of one family's weeks of threadbare living and fighting together to survive in a dangerous and foreign world. Mariana's maternal imperative to keep her son and daughter safe and innocent of the fear she feels is the emotional backbone to this film, supported by the world-famous Tribeca Institute.
“Graceful ferocity” Tribeca Film Festival
Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte
Colombia-born director/actress Paola Mendoza plays Mariana in the film and was also the lead in 2007's Padre Nuesto, while filmmaking partner Gloria La Morte has worked chiefly as an editor. Mendoza's other directorial work includes 2006's short Still Standing, about Hurricane Katrina's destruction of her New Orleans-dwelling grandmother's home.