- 3 Américas
Infobox Film
name = 3 Américas
caption = Theatrical Poster
director =Cristina Kotz Cornejo
producer = Cristina Kotz Cornejo
Angela Counts
writer = Cristina Kotz Cornejo
starring = Kristen Gonzalez
Ana Maria Colombo
Nicolás Meradi
Gy Mirano
Gilberto Arribas
music = Germaine Franco
add'l music = Andy Kotz
cinematography = Chad Davidson
prod. design = Toni Barton
costume design = Cynthia August
editing = Cristina Kotz Cornejo
released =October 11 ,2007
runtime = 98 minutes
country =Argentina
language = Spanish
English
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0847204|"3 Américas" is a 2007 Argentine/
US dramatic film written and directed byCristina Kotz Cornejo . Produced byCristina Kotz Cornejo 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.
But 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.
Exhibitions
* The film premiered on October 11, 2007 at the Woodstock Film Festival.
* Ola Latin American Film Festival, Orlando, Florida, February 2008
* Tiburon International Film Festival, Tiburon, CA, March 2008
*
XXVI Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay , Montevideo, April 2008* Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, April 2008
* Reel
Rasquache Film Festival,California State University, Los Angeles , June 2008*
Brooklyn Academy of Music Film Screening Series, April 2008* New York International Latino Film Festival, July 2008
External links
*imdb name|id=0180140|name=Cristina Kotz Cornejo
*imdb name|id=0847204|name="3 Américas"
* [http://www.3americasmovie.com "3 Américas" Official Site]
* [http://www.wildwimminfilms.com Wild Wimmin Films Site]
* [http://www.independent-magazine.org/node/701 "The Independent" Review of "3 Américas"]
* [http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1172347 WAMC Public Radio Interview]
* [http://www.indiewire.com/ots/2007/10/celebs_and_stel.html "3 Américas" on "Indiewire"]
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