(Co-director, co-writer, and star of the film Paolo Mendoza is seen in this still from "Entre Nos")
This summer I interned at the Traverse City Film Festival where I was lucky enough to get to see a lot of amazing independent films. One of my favorite films was a Spanish film titled "Entre Nos" (translated in english to "between us"). Watch the trailer here. In short, the film is about a woman, Mariana, who has immigrates to New York from Colombia with her husband and her two children. Her husband decides to leave her and the children and move to Miami. Now on her own with no job, Mariana fights to keep her family alive in New York. Two woman directed this film, Gloria La Morte (co-director, co-writer, editor) and Paola Mendoza (co-director, co-writer) who also starred in the film. I was extremely fortunate in being able to meet and talk with these amazing women filmmakers about how their film came to production. One of the most amazing facts about this film is that the story is based heavily around Mendoza's mothers experience immigrating to America. Once La Morte and Mendoza decided that was the story they wanted to write, they took two years to write the screenplay before entering it in Independent Film Week's Emerging Narrative section and won the Grand Prize, which granted them a full panasonic camera package, which their crew used to for the film. They also took out a loan to cover product costs. In talking with both of these amazing women, they stressed one thing if you believe in yourself you can definitely make a film. It was remarkable that La Morte and Mendoza were able to create this stunning film with such a small budget and just a small indie film distributor. After viewing this incredible film, I was definitely inspired to keep working towards my career goals towards the entertainment business.
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