Join The Women's International Film Festival, actors Elizabeth Pena and Steven Bauer for "How The
Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer"
The Women's Interntional Film Festival is pleased to present a one time, Miami only advance screening of "How The
Garcia Girls Spent their Summer." Actors Elizabeth Pena and Steven Bauer will attend the screening for a Q&A and reception following the
movie. Wednesday, May 7, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Starring: Elizabeth Peña,
America Ferrera, Lucy Gallardo,
Steven Bauer, Jorge Cervera Jr., Rick Najera, Leo Minaya
What does female desire
look like? And how do self-inflicted limitations and social expectations shade and color it? In her tenderly comic, richly textured feature
debut, Georgina Garcia Riedel lovingly explores the terrain of longing, loneliness, and self-realization among three generations of single women in a
Mexican American family as they grapple with romantic drought.
As sweltering summer stretches
over a sun-bleached Arizona border town, Doña Genoveva (Lucy Gallardo), the Garcia family matriarch, decides to buy a car. The
only catch is that she doesn’t know how to drive. When she enlists Don Pedro’s pedagogical skills, sparks begin to fly--at her house and
beyond. Her daughter, Lolita, played with deadpan poignancy by Elizabeth Peña (The
Lost City, Down and Out in
Beverly Hills) seems to have hit a dry spell until things start to sizzle at the butcher shop
where she works. Meanwhile, Lolita’s teenage daughter, Blanca, a radiant America Ferrera (Ugly
Betty, Real Women Have Curves), engineers an awakening all
her own. It’s as if the languid heat wave has thawed everyone’s defenses and jump-started a sexual revolution.
Join us for the movie, Q&A with
Elizabeth and Steven, a reception celebrating Mexico and Hispanic culture, and a 20% discount to Macy's with free facials (while supplies
last) just in time for Mother's Day. Tickets are $45 (which includes a one year membership to WIFF). Seats are limited. Contact www.womensfilmfest.com to purchase your ticket or call 305-653-9700.
