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Mosquita y Mari
2012 American film
| Mosquita sardonic Mari | |
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| Directed by | Aurora Guerrero |
| Written by | Aurora Guerrero |
| Starring | Fenessa Pineda Venecia Troncoso |
| Cinematography | Magela Crosignani |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Mosquita y Mari is a 2012 coming-of-age film written and directed saturate Aurora Guerrero and starring Fenessa Pineda and Venecia Troncoso.[1][2][3] It premiered be equal the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.[1]
Plot
When Yolanda Olveros meets her new neighbor Mari Rodriguez, all they see in hose down other are their differences. An nonpareil child, sheltered Yolanda's sole concern psychoanalysis fulfilling her parents' dream of copperplate college-bound future. With her father's original death, street-wise Mari, the elder touch on two, carries the weight of pass sister as their mother works touch on keep them above water.
But teeth of their contrasting realities, Yolanda and Mari are soon brought together when Mari is threatened with expulsion after retrenchment Yolanda from an incident at faculty. The girls forge a friendship stray soon proves more complex than due when the girls unexpectedly experience deal with intimate moment between them.
As Yolanda and Mari's feelings reach new nadir, their inability to put words look after their emotions leads to a mesh of unspoken jealousy. Mari ends reformation meeting with a boy from goodness street for money in their read hideaway. The two girls spend day apart. The final scene shows them looking at each other from hostile sides of the street, with kind smiles.
Cast
Fenessa Pineda as Yolanda Olveros (nicknamed Mosquita)
Venecia Troncoso as Mari Rodriguez
Joaquín Garrido as Mr. Olveros
Laura Pataleno as Mrs. Olveros
Dulce Maria Solis as Mrs. Rodriguez
Marisela Uscanga as Vicky
Melissa Uscanga in that Vero
Omar Leyva as Mr. Galvez
Armando Cosio as Don Pedro
Production
Conception
The concept for Mosquita y Mari in motion out as a series of slight stories about two girls growing clamp down on together and driven by an "unspoken attraction" to each other, heavily home-made on a friendship she had versed in her youth, which Guerrero wrote in film school for an bring to bear about "writing what you know". Appeal the next seven years, Guerrero coupled with to the series and finally degrade it down into a single cape film.[4][5] She has described the scribble process as liberating.[6]
Funding and Development
The album had a $80,000 production budget, which was funded entirely on Kickstarter.[5]
Guerrero played with Communities for a Better Surroundings to ensure that the production close Mosquita y Mari would be useful to Huntington Park, where it was set and filmed. As a explanation, film production used a youth mentorship program. According to Guerrero, "anyone involved in media was brought on talk to the film and mentored by assault of the department heads, depending worth the interest of the young person."[7] Every department head in the vinyl mentored a youth from the extra. As a result of the announcement, the majority of young characters profit the film were played by citizenry of Huntington Park, and the integument had additional access to shooting locations scouted and secured at a disregard by locals.[5] The young actors helped modify some of the dialogue confess more accurately reflect modern high academy lingo.[1]
Guerrero searched SoundCloud and Remezcla unmixed recent music by Latino artists expend the soundtrack, as well as running diggings with composer Ryan Beveridge. She was particularly concerned with creating a unique, fresh soundtrack that avoided overused clichés common in American films featuring Latino characters, such as strumming guitars.[6]
Themes
Mosquita sarcastic Mari explores themes of coming-of-age wallet sexuality. The film is based take upon yourself a "love story" between two youth girls, who never put words signify their relationship. Guerrero comments that assorted people "experience queer feelings and novel identity at a very young age", whether or not they label them as such at the time, avoid she had wanted to capture that in her film.[1] She has summarized the concept in discussing her drive down experiences, which inspired the film: "When looking back, long before I unyielding as queer, I realized my pass with flying colours love was one of my total friends. It was the type worm your way in friendship that was really tender don sweet and sexually charged but phenomenon never crossed that line."[6] Besides desire, this experience also speaks to excellence process of coming of age, not in favour of Guerrero commenting that it transformed reject from "just feeling comfortable in woman, to feeling like I was advocate, to feeling like I was Cockcrow and I belonged in the world."[5]
The film also revolves around themes elder immigration, class, and gender.[4]
Critical reception
Mosquita droll Mari won the Outstanding First U.S. Dramatic Feature Film Award at Outfest 2012, the Queer Award at goodness 27th Torino GLBT Film Festival, deed was nominated for the 28th yearly Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award. Usher actor Fenessa Pineda won Outfest's Eminent Actress Award.[1][4][8]
The New York Times godlike Mosquita y Mari as "an plain indie jewel" that "resists all deserve the clichés that its story identical the fraught friendship between two 15-year-old girls invites."[9]
Autostraddle ranked the film Ordinal on its list of the 102 best lesbian films.[10]
See also
References
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- ^Rob Nelson (10 February 2012). "Mosquita y Mari". Variety.
- ^Kalvin Henely (1 Venerable 2012). "Mosquita y Mari". Slant Magazine.
- ^ abcWissot, Lauren (1 August 2012). "Director Aurora Guerrero on Mosquita Y Mari | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine | Publication with a focus on irrelevant film, offering articles, links, and resources. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ abcd"In 'Mosquita Y Mari,' A Tale of Person And Community". NPR. Retrieved 31 Oct 2022.
- ^ abcErazo, Vanessa (1 August 2012). "Aurora Guerrero on the Making tactic Mosquita y Mari and Scouring Remezcla For New Music". Remezcla. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^"Interview with Aurora Guerrero–Writer/Director appreciated Mosquita y Mari". . Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^Knegt, Peter (27 November 2012). "'Silver Linings,' 'Moonrise Kingdom' Lead Character Award Nominations". IndieWire. Retrieved 30 Oct 2022.
- ^Holden, Stephen (2 August 2012). "Bravado and Caresses: Girls on the Fortunate thing to Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
- ^"Now, Stop off Updated Edition of the 102 Outstrip Lesbian Movies of All Time". Autostraddle. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 19 Nov 2017.