ESTA ISLA, First-Ever Puerto Rican Film to Win Spirt Award Opens 3/27 in LA
Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina’s arresting debut is the first Puerto Rican film to ever win a Spirit Award
The award-winning Puerto Rican film ESTA ISLA, which made history as the first-ever Puerto Rican film to win
a Spirit Award, continues its ground-breaking run, expanding to Los Angeles, where it will open at the Lumiere Cinema on March 27th.
The film is currently playing in cities in the US, including NYC, Miami, and Chicago, as well as in 20+ theaters across Puerto Rico.
ESTA ISLA has earned international acclaim for its direction, performances, and honest cultural representation, winning a Spirit Award and three major prizes at the Tribeca Festival. The film explores themes of identity, memory, and belonging in an island community and has become a landmark of contemporary Boricua cinema.
NEW YORK CITY
• Village East Cinema by Angelika Film Center
LOS ANGELES
• Lumiere Cinema (Opens 3/27)
MIAMI
•Cinépolis Coconut Grove •AMC Aventura 24 •AMC Hialeah
CHICAGO
•AMC Galewood •AMC Cicero
Synopsis
Bebo (Zion Ortíz) is a teenager living in a coastal public housing complex, trying to make ends meet as a fisherman, but gets dragged into dangerous, illegal dealings to survive. After a drug deal goes wrong and leads to violence, Bebo flees with Lola (Fabiola Brown), a young woman from a wealthier background looking to escape her own suffocating reality. As they navigate the island’s untamed mountains, encountering the remnants of a fading way of life and meeting people living outside capitalist pressures, will they be able to outrun the hitmen pursuing them?
