Antonio Méndez Esparza
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
Winner at the Cannes Film Festival and AFI Fest, AQUI Y ALLA is a story about hope, and the memories and loss of what we leave behind. Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the US, he hopes to now finally make a better life with his family, and...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Language
English
Description
Spanish-born filmmaker Antonio Mňdez Esparza follows-up his debut drama Aqu y̕ all ẁith another sensitive portrait of a struggling family. Stressed by her job in a diner, single mother Regina is raising her two children in northern Florida. When her fourteen-year-old son Andrew has another brush with the law, she worries he will wind up in prison like his father. Mňdez Esparza employs documentary-style realism in this snapshot of race, class...