Comadre

Marielitos is a Mexican immigrant nanny struggling with the last days of her current nanny job, and trying to find a new one.

THE TEAM

FEATURING: Reyna, Ava Garza, Claire Street, Mayra Rosario

DIRECTOR, WRITER, EDITOR: Nicole Chi

PRODUCERS: Fumiya Hayakawa, Hao-Wei Timothy Chang

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Sebastián Valdivieso Jáuregui

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Em Shapiro

SOUND DESIGN: Gabriela Rivas Feoli

SOUND MIXING: Miles Forest Greenwood

COLORIST: Chisco Arce

FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Verónica Maciel

SOUND RECORDIST: Fumiya Hayakawa

GAFFER: Alex Le, Axel Alarcon

KEY GRIP: Jess Lopez

GRIP: Daniel Onderdonk, Wyatt Franz, Ariel Juarez, Evan Katz

FIRST ASSISTANT CAMERA: Evan L'roy, Zachary de La Garza

SET DRESSER: Anne Chow, Tuesday Becker

SCRIPT SUPERVISOR: Nalbeat Kwon

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Marie Yamamoto

AWARDS

Best Costa Rican Short Film, Costa Rica International Film Festival, 2023

Director’s Guild of America Student Film Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in the Latino Category (West Coast), 2022

Best Texas Short Film, Oak Cliff Film Festival, 2023

L-MAS Graduate Student Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2022

SELECTIONS

Telluride Film Festival (2023)

Monterrey International Film Festival (2023)

Costa Rica International Film Festival (2023)

Carrboro Film Festival (2023)

Mittelamerikanisches Filmfestival en Viena (2023)

Lobo Fest (2023)

Kera - Frame of Mind (2023)

El Paso Film Festival (2023)

Topaz Film Festival (2023)

Lost River Film Festival (2023)

Costa Rica International Film Festival (2023)

Oak Cliff Film Festival (2023)

Philadelphia Latino Film festival (2023)

UPTILT Film Festival (2023)

BOGOSHORTS - Festival de Cortos de Bogotá (2022)

New Orleans Film Festival (2022)

San Francisco Latino Film Festival (2022)

Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse (2023)

New York Latino Film Festival (2022)