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UID:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4211475/film-boca-chica/
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LOCATION:Virtual and UCF Visual Arts Auditorium: 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32816

SUMMARY:Film: Boca Chica
URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4211475/film-boca-chica/
DESCRIPTION:This film is part of the 2026 Latin American Film Festival. In addition to the in-person screening, the film will be available to watch on the festival's virtual platform for one week afterward.\n\nTrailer: [Boca Chica ](https://vimeo.com/905277507?fl=pl&fe=vl)\n\nSynopsis\n\nSpanish, English, with English subtitles\n\nWith Scarlet Camilo, Lia Chapman, Jean Cruz, Richarson Diaz\n\nWhy you must-see this film. Because it is an example of the brilliant New Wave of Dominican Cinema. It tackles an incredibly important theme and it is written by the talented team behind 'Pelo Malo' (Mariana Rondon, Marite Ugas). Moreover, the film won the Nora Ephron Award at the latest Tribeca Film Festival.\n\nBeautifully juxtaposing the realities and expectations of a young girl approaching womanhood in the Dominican Republic, Boca Chica shines a light on the insidious child sex trade and the lives it seeks to destroy.\n\nDirector Gabriella A. Moses exposes the community's complicity by way of twelve-year-old Desi who is constantly exposed to unwanted advances and crude comments from older men, both visiting and homegrown. She works at the family restaurant alongside her mother Carmen, who encourages the behavior, in a once serene beachside town now bustling with foreign tourists.\n\nMusic is Desi's escape. She dreams of parlaying her nascent musical talents into a full-fledged singing career. When she stumbles across a group of local rappers that set themselves apart from the scene, her passions begin to boil to the surface. She seeks to avoid the common fate of growing mature before her time and falling prey to the morally bankrupt adults in her life who encourage her to forgo her innocence for profit.\n\nBoca Chica explores themes of identity, family, codependency, and truth, and exposes how local social norms present the sexualization of very young girls as a path to survival.\n\n \n\nVirtual Location URL: https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cUcfp8UFYN4aaG2\nRegistration Link: https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cUcfp8UFYN4aaG2\nRegistration Info: Registration is free and open to the public for both the in-person and virtual screening. The film will be available on the virtual platform for one week after the in-person screening.
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