3 Américas
Encyclopedia
3 Américas is a 2007 Argentine
/U.S.
dramatic
film
written and directed by Cristina Kotz Cornejo
. The film was produced by Cristina Kotz Cornejo
and Angela Counts. The story takes place in Boston, Massachusetts and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
After a life-changing event, América, whose Spanish is limited, is sent to Buenos Aires, Argentina to live with her reclusive and anti-American grandmother, Lucía América Campos. In Argentina, América struggles to find her place with a grandmother she has never known and to hold onto a friendship with Sergio, a neighbor twice her age.
Cinema of Argentina
The cinema of Argentina has a tradition dating back to the late nineteenth century, and continues to play a role in the culture of Argentina....
/U.S.
Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period...
dramatic
Dramatic
Dramatic may refer to:* Drama, a literary form involving parts for actors* Dramatic, a voice type classification in European classical music, describing a specific vocal weight and range at the lower end of a given voice part...
film
Film
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written and directed by Cristina Kotz Cornejo
Cristina Kotz Cornejo
Cristina Kotz Cornejo is an Argentine-American director and screenwriter who resides in Boston, MA and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a dual citizen of the US and Argentina.-Biography:...
. The film was produced by Cristina Kotz Cornejo
Cristina Kotz Cornejo
Cristina Kotz Cornejo is an Argentine-American director and screenwriter who resides in Boston, MA and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a dual citizen of the US and Argentina.-Biography:...
and Angela Counts. The story takes place in Boston, Massachusetts and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Plot
With summer approaching, 16 year-old América has two issues, or so she thinks. She hates school and her aunt Carolina’s alcoholic husband, Joey. She passes the days shoplifting, hanging out with her friends and trying to avoid Joey.After a life-changing event, América, whose Spanish is limited, is sent to Buenos Aires, Argentina to live with her reclusive and anti-American grandmother, Lucía América Campos. In Argentina, América struggles to find her place with a grandmother she has never known and to hold onto a friendship with Sergio, a neighbor twice her age.
Festivals/Exhibitions
- The film premiered on October 11, 2007 at the Woodstock Film FestivalWoodstock Film FestivalThe Woodstock Film Festival is an American film festival that was begun in 1999. The festival was first conceived as a part of the Woodstock '99 Music and Arts Festival, with movies being screened as part of that event.-History:...
. - Ola Latin American Film Festival, Orlando, Florida, February 2008
- 12th Annual Harlem Stage on Screen: Creatively Speaking Film Series, March 2008
- Tiburon International Film Festival, Tiburon, CA, March 2008
- XXVI Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay, Montevideo, April 2008
- 11th Cine Las Americas International Film FestivalCine Las Americas International Film FestivalThe Cine Las Americas International Film Festival is an annual film festival based in Austin, Texas featuring Latin American and indigenous films from the Americas. In its 14th year in 2011, the Festival has grown into a city-wide event, with over 100 screenings in a nine-day span...
, April 2008 - Reel RasquacheRasquacheRasquache is a Spanish term, of Nahuatl origin, used by Chicanos, which originally had a negative connotation in Mexico as being an attitude that was lower class or impoverished...
Film Festival, California State University, Los AngelesCalifornia State University, Los AngelesCalifornia State University, Los Angeles is a public comprehensive university, part of the California State University system...
, June 2008 - Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music is a major performing arts venue in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, United States, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance....
Film Screening Series, April 2008 - Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), May 2008
- New York International Latino Film Festival, July 2008
- Hartford International Film Festival, November 2008
- Yale University, January 2009