As Magdalena's Quinceanera (15th birthday) approaches her simple blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she is pregnant. Kicked out of her house she finds a new family with Tomas her great-granduncle and Carlos her outcast gay cousin. Winner of both the Audience Award & Grand Jury Prize at The Sundance Film Festival this year Echo Park L.A. is a moving funny and socially poignant film about the challenges young people face when their values and desires differ from the suffocating age-old traditions of the family into which they are born. Echo Park L.A. offers an enlightening insight into the racial class and sexual tensions of a working class Latino neighbourhood in transition.
As Magdalena's Quinceanera (15th birthday) approaches her simple blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she is pregnant. Kicked out of her house she finds a new family with Tomas her great-granduncle and Carlos her outcast gay cousin. Winner of both the Audience Award & Grand Jury Prize at The Sundance Film Festival this year Echo Park L.A. is a moving funny and socially poignant film about the challenges young people face when their values and desires differ from the suffocating age-old traditions of the family into which they are born. Echo Park L.A. offers an enlightening insight into the racial class and sexual tensions of a working class Latino neighbourhood in transition.
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