Sundance Institute Unveils Latine Scholarship for 11 Emerging Artists
thewrap.comAshley Alvarez (writer) and Michael León (co-writer and director) with “Crabs in a Barrel” (U.S.A): When her talentless frenemy is anointed the “future of Latinx voices,” a struggling Latina writer sets out to sabotage the unearned opportunity.
After failing to recruit her friends to join her crusade, she gets a lucky break when she learns her rival isn’t exactly who she says she is.Luna X.
Moya (director/producer/editor/DP)with “What the Pier Gave Us”(U.S.A): A visually poetic film about immigrants who fish at a New York City pier.
In five vignettes, “What the Pier Gave Us”lyrically captures the seasonal changes of a pier in a year.Marilyn Oliva (director/producer) with “Chalate”(U.S.A): A grandmother teaches her young granddaughter valuable life lessons while they make ends meet selling what they can in the small market of Chalatenango, El Salvador.George Pérez (creator/writer) with “Los Cubanos” (U.S.A): Forced to flee Castro’s Cuba in 1980, a husband and wife make the gut-wrenching decision to abandon their daughter.
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