Thursday, July 26 | 3:00 PM
Director’s Guild Theater
110 West 57th Street
Synopses
BLIND LEADING THE BLIND
20 MIN / COLOR / DIGITAL
WORLD PREMIERE
Director: Danny A. Gonzales
Join Danny and Angelo as they journey into self-discovery. Can two Puerto Rican homeboys hang with a blind Jewish Yenta? Can she have a good time with these two knuckleheads? Follow our two heroes as they realize the dark yet colorful world of Agnes, while they roam the streets of New York.
DVD
17 MIN / COLOR / 35 MM
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Director: Ciro Altabas
This short film includes: Scene selection/Trailer/selected cut scenes/alternate ending/eliminated scene/video clip/ featurette: “What’s a freak?”/ audio commentary/ character selection and a boy-meets-girl story.
GORDO
26 MIN / COLOR / 35 MM
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Director: Vince Navarro
Jorge 'Gordo' Fuentes, late 20’s, is a hardworking, gifted taco maker from Mexico. Recently married and with a baby on the way, Gordo leaves his wildly popular taco stand and travels to America where he hopes to establish a successful Mexican restaurant to earn enough money to bring his family up north. Gordo arrives in Watsonville, CA where he stays with his cousin, Joel, who recognizes Gordo’s taco talent and lands him a job at the local franchise of Cinco de Taco, a national food chain. Appalled at how the chain makes tacos, Gordo sneaks his own ingredients into the fast food restaurant and prepares tacos the way he did in Mexico...
HARDLY MARRIED
15 MIN / COLOR / DIGITAL
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Director: Diego M. Nuñez
Frank and Leti, teens in love, are all set to lose their virginity when Leti’s mother, Sara, comes home unexpectedly and catches them in the act. Furious, Sara refuses to believe their excuses for the compromising situation and flies off the handle. That’s until Leti confesses that Frank has asked her to marry him. Finding this announcement to be more shocking than the earlier discovery, Sara decides to teach the lovebirds about marriage by enlisting the rapid-fire aid of Frank's parents and the entire community.
SUAVECITO (Smoothly)
9 MIN / COLOR / DIGITAL
WORLD PREMIERE
Director: Sandra Beltrao
The night is on when smooth operator Brad from “Murray Hill” locks eyes with a gorgeous Latina from the Bronx at a downtown party…that is, until his inner beast comes alive courtesy of some killer pot.
THE GIFT
5 MIN / COLOR / DIGITAL
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Director: S. Escobedo-Altman
The Gift is a political comedy that exposes the ordeals of three Mexican immigrants and their adventure across the desert, in pursuit of the Free World.
Additional Screening:
Thursday, July 26
