Carmen Pelaez

Carmen Pelaez

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Carmen Pelaez

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The Last Rafter
Santera
After risking his life crossing the Florida straits on a raft, a young Cuban searches Miami for his missing father. When a political shift makes him America’s first Cuban undocumented immigrant, he must battle the new and bigger fear of deportation, while trying to find where he really belongs.
Mango Season
Producer
A recent Cuban refugee arrival, Raul, is hunting for mangoes he can hustle to local bodegas for some cash when he inadvertently becomes octogenarian Cuban lady prey.
Mango Season
Director
A recent Cuban refugee arrival, Raul, is hunting for mangoes he can hustle to local bodegas for some cash when he inadvertently becomes octogenarian Cuban lady prey.
Habla Men
Self
Junot Diaz, Carlos Ponce, Blue Demon, and others share their riveting stories and experiences as Latino men in the United States.
April in New York
Medic
A Queen Without His Crown
Director
Charlie, a closeted Senator who actively legislates against the LGBT community, maneuvers though his days until finally life and truth out-maneuver him.
Side Effects
Prison Desk Guard
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
The Acting Lesson
Director
A Very Serious Person
Terry
Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with his cousins in Florida after his grandmother's death.