Fenessa Pineda (left) plays Yolanda, nicknamed "Mosquita," and Venecia Troncoso plays Mari in Mosquita y Mari, a film about the budding love between two Chicana teenagers. The film Mosquita y Mari — ...

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First-time writer-director Aurora Guerrero beautifully captures the fluctuating dynamics of friendship between 15-year-old girls in “Mosquita y Mari,” a low-budget, high-achieving drama that makes ...

This low budget coming of age story follows two L.A. teens as they forge a unique friendship and face big decisions. By Duane Byrge NEXT Park City – Opposites attract in this Chicana coming-of-age ...

The Lesbian Looks film series celebrates its 20th anniversary next month with three screenings at the Loft Cinema, a visit from award-winning filmmakers Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss, and a new ...

The story of budding love between two Chicana teens, it's the first narrative feature by a Chicana director to screen at the Sundance Film... In 'Mosquita Y Mari,' A Tale Of Self And Community The ...

A coming-of-age saga of quiet contemplation, Mosquita y Mari focuses on the growing bond between Yolanda (Fenessa Pineda), a high school honor student in Huntington Park, L.A., and Mari (Venecia ...

The story of budding love between two Chicana teens, it's the first narrative feature by a Chicana director to screen at the Sundance Film... The film Mosquita y Mari — the first narrative feature by ...

Yolanda and Mari have only known loyalty to one thing: family. When Mari moves in across the street from Yolanda, they maintain their usual life routine, until an incident at school thrusts them into ...

Admirably understated and very well acted, this tale of the friendship between two Mexican teens in L.A.—one a straight-A student, the other a tough-as-nails illegal—avoids cheap sentiment but still ...

Though Aurora Guerrero made Filmmaker magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” list in 2006, the director behind this year’s Sundance-premiering, award-winning Mosquita y Mari – which most ...