2022 Athena Film Festival

Virtual Event: Real Women Have Curves (20th Anniversary Screening)

Expired March 21, 2022 3:59 AM
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Real Women Have Curves
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old is torn between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown, family-owned textile factory.
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20th Anniversary Screening


Real women take chances, have flaws, embrace life...and have curves. In her feature film debut, America Ferrera stars as 18-year-old Ana, a first-generation Mexican-American from East L.A., who struggles between her ambition of attending college and her cultural traditions--as personified by Ana's needy mother, who wants the girl to work at the family's sewing factory.


The Future of Latinx Stories in Hollywood Panel to immediately follow the in-person screening.

  • Year
    2002
  • Runtime
    90 minutes
  • Language
    English, Spanish
  • Country
    United States of America
  • Note
    Narrative
  • Director
    Patricia Cardoso
  • Screenwriter
    Josefina Lopez, George LaVoo
  • Producer
    Marilyn R. Atlas, Effie T. Brown, George LaVoo
  • Executive Producer
    N/A
  • Cast
    America Ferrera, Lupe Ontiveros, George Lopez, Ingrid Oliu, Brian Sites
  • Cinematographer
    Jim Denault
  • Editor
    Sloane Klevin
  • Composer
    Heitor Pereira
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