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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"ALONDRA SMILES"
Official Selection of the 30th Annual
Cinefestival in
San Antonio, Texas
An award-winning feature produced by a family
Los Angeles, March 29, 2008 - The
award-winning feature "Alondra
Smiles" will screen at Cinefestival in
San Antonio, Texas, at the
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, a top Latino
arts institution. It will
be screened on April 13, 2008 at 1:00pm.
Cinefestival, in its 30th
edition, is the longest-running international
Latino film and video
festival in the country. "Alondra Smiles"
recently won the Directors
Gold Award at the International Family Film
Festival in
Hollywood.
Villa Media Productions, along with an
up-and-coming cast, brings this
heartwarming story to life. In "Alondra Smiles,"
we meet Alondra, a
fourteen-year-old who's planning to have a very
special 15th birthday
celebration, and her spoiled cousin Tatiana, who
wants to ruin
Alondra's plans.
Alondra (Natalie Gomez) has a positive attitude
towards life despite
having lost her parents to an accident seven
years ago; she is
grateful for her loving grandparents (Jose V.
Villa and Josefina Ortega-Villa),
whom she now lives with. Alondra befriends
Armando (Anthony Marquez),
a nice guy she met while working at her uncle's
restaurant.
Unfortunately, Alondra's manipulative
step-cousin Tatiana (Paloma Rodriguez) wants
Armando as her date for her debutante party, and
with the help of her
sidekicks she keeps Armando and Alondra apart
while making them
believe that she's just trying to help.
Director Conchita Nora Villa says, "My family
and I wanted to produce
a movie that an entire family can watch
together. It was also important
for me to portray Latinos in a positive,
non-stereotypical way."
Ms. Villa's credits include working on "Selena"
and "Mi Familia/My
Family" as well as producing various independent
projects. After over
10 years of experience in the various facets of
the film industry, she
decided to team up with her brother,
Producer/Writer Juan Francisco
Villa, and her family to produce and finance "Alondra
Smiles."
This filmis Ms. Villa's directorial
debut. |
