28th San Diego Latino Film Festival

Hecho en USA Shorts Program

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9 films + livestream in package
Sickly
Anxiously convinced his flu-like symptoms could be something much worse, a luckless Brooklynite winds up in a fever-dream series of misadventures as he searches through the night for medical care in an unfamiliar city.
Joyride
Teenage Latinx sisters break their grandmother out of her assisted living facility for one last joyride.
Tesoro
Selling his car to make ends meet, a lonely elderly man must relive his memories as he prepares to give up his Tesoro.
Letter of Wreck
When it comes to education, excuses write themselves.
Rizo
An Afro-Latina struggles with her identity as she navigates the Hollywood machine.
Superestar
Two Salvadoran women, one a first generation indie-pop singer, and the other an immigrant bathroom attendant at an LA nightclub, bond over their different troubles and their mutual love of music.
When You Clean a Stranger’s Home
A cinematic essay that gives an insider look at the strength and dimension of Latina, immigrant domestic workers while exploring the complexities of their first-generation American offspring.
La Casa de la Abuela
Away from home, Raúl gets caught in the middle of his responsibilities and his loving family.
Alejandro
A mother shares stories with her son on a momentous, late afternoon drive.
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Facing financial debts, a lonely elderly man, Gordo, finds himself in the predicament of selling the most valuable asset he owns; his Tesoro. Realizing the value of the car and the memories it holds is not understood by potential buyers, he cannot allow himself to part with it.

Gordo revisits the generational importance the car as it is a time capsule of painful and beautiful memories. He reconsiders selling his car as he understands his youth is past and takes one last ride. In this story, we take a close look at the love story between time and letting go.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    8 minutes
  • Language
    English, Spanish
  • Country
    USA
  • Premiere
    US Premiere
  • Rating
    UR
  • Director
    Roxanna Denise Stevens Ibarra
  • Screenwriter
    Roxanna Denise Stevens Ibarra
  • Producer
    Andre Carr
  • Executive Producer
    N/A
  • Cast
    Martin Martinez, Victor Garcia Rodriguez, Rafael Reyes Woman, Ramses Del Mar Stevens, Roxanna Denise Stevens Ibarra, Samuel Bass,
  • Cinematographer
    Alejandro Olmedo
  • Editor
    Roxanna Denise Stevens Ibarra, Victor Garcia Rodriguez
  • Production Design
    Roxanna Denise Stevens Ibarra, Bailey Brown
  • Composer
    Roxanna Denise Stevens Ibarra, Santino Interiano Avalos
  • Sound Design
    Roxanna Denise Stevens Ibarra
  • Music
    Cielito Lindo (Roxanna Denise Stevens Ibarra, Santino Interiano Avalos)
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