Alfredo De Villa

Fame proves elusive for comic Jesse Sanchez, who reflects on life from the bottom of a bathtub in this film based on John Leguizamo's one-man show. The story that unfolds has it all: love, loss, mistakes, adventure and redemption.

Una vez más se acerca la Navidad, y los miembros de la familia Rodríguez se congregan en la residencia familiar de los padres, en Chicago. Este año celebran el regreso de la guerra de Jesse, el hermano menor. Jesse vuelve a sentirse interesado en su antigua novia, aunque ella aun no le perdona que haya partido. Roxanna, la hermana mayor, sigue luchando por convertirse en actriz, pero luego de años intentando alcanzar sus sueños, es muy poco lo que ha logrado. Y Anna, la madre, está desencantada porque su hijo mayor llegó acompañado por una esposa muy ejecutiva que tiene mas interés en crear capital que en criar niños. Será una semana concurrida para compartir secretos y tomar importantes decisiones que dejarán una marca en sus vidas. Es Anna la que da pie a toda esta cadena de situaciones cuando anuncia que va a divorciarse de Eduardo....

Amaryllis Campos is a young, classically trained Puerto Rican ballerina, who dreams of leaving her impoverished home in Puerto Rico to pursue fame and fortune as a dancer. Amaryllis heads for New York City, where she is forced to work in a seedy strip club to make ends meet. Setting audiences afire with her erotic moves, Amaryllis quickly becomes the strip club's hottest attraction, but must finally decide between true love and realizing her dream of becoming a star.

"Washington Heights" tells the story of Carlos Ramirez, a young illustrator burning to escape the Latino neighborhood of the same name to make a splash in New York City's commercial downtown comic book scene. When his father, who owns a bodega in the Heights, is shot in a burglary attempt, Carlos is forced to put his dream on hold and run the store. In the process, he comes to understand that if he is to make it as a comic artist, he must engage with the community he comes from, take that experience back out into the world, and put it in his work.

"Washington Heights" tells the story of Carlos Ramirez, a young illustrator burning to escape the Latino neighborhood of the same name to make a splash in New York City's commercial downtown comic book scene. When his father, who owns a bodega in the Heights, is shot in a burglary attempt, Carlos is forced to put his dream on hold and run the store. In the process, he comes to understand that if he is to make it as a comic artist, he must engage with the community he comes from, take that experience back out into the world, and put it in his work.