Wolfe Releasing has acquired the North American rights to Aurora Guerrero’s lesbian-themed film Mosquita y Mari, which recently wowed audiences at Sundance.
The film tells the story of Yolanda and Mari, two 15-year-old Latinas navigating friendship, family and falling in love with each other in the Huntington Park section of Los Angeles.
Mosquita y Mari was produced by Chad Burris, written by Guerrero and stars Fenessa Pineda and Venecia Troncoso. An Indion Entertaintment/Maya Entertainment feature, The Film Collaborative will release the film theatrically in 2012 while Wolfe will release it on VOD and DVD in 2013.
“Aurora Guerrero is a tremendously talented young filmmaker," Wolfe President Maria Lynn said in a release. “Mosquita y Mari is an exceptionally high quality film with a genuinely unique and tender story to tell about young love. We are very excited to have it on the Wolfe label and to bring it to the widest audience possible.”
Here is the films synopsis according to a release from Wolfe:
Yolanda and Mari are growing up in Huntington Park, Los Angeles and have only known loyalty to one thing: family. Growing up in immigrant households, both girls are expected to prioritize the well-being of their families. Yolanda, an only child, delivers straight A’s and the hope of the American Dream while Mari, the eldest, shares economic responsibilities with her undocumented mother who scrambles to make ends meet. When Mari moves in across the street from Yolanda, they maintain their usual life routine, until an incident at school thrusts them into a friendship and into unknown territory. As their friendship grows, a yearning to explore their strange yet beautiful connection surfaces. Lost in their private world of unspoken affection, lingering gazes, and heart-felt confessions of uncertain futures, Yolanda’s grades begin to slip while Mari’s focus drifts away from her duties at a new job. Mounting pressures at home collide with their new-found desires thus driving Yolanda and Mari’s relationship to the edge, forcing them to choose between their obligations to others and staying true to each other.
Serving audiences since 1985, Wolfe is the largest exclusive distributor of gay and lesbian films. Current major Wolfe releases include the acclaimed gay drama, Undertow(Peru’s submission for the 2010 Academy Awards) and the hard-hitting “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” drama, A Marine Story. Wolfe is also well known for releasing classics such as Desert Hearts, Big Eden and Were the World Mine. Find more info online at https://www.wolfevideo.com
Watch a trailer for Mosquita y Mari below.
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