ENTRE NOS: A Real-Life Family Drama

By Mario Díaz*

In Hollywood, multi-hyphenate filmmakers like writer-director-producer-editor James Cameron are sometimes characterized as narcissists, their numerous credits seen as an insatiable need for control. In the indie film world, however, when filmmakers take on multiple roles it’s often due to sheer necessity.


Such was the case for Colombian actress Paola Mendoza, whose touching and nuanced new feature film Entre Nos was a hit at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. When she first conceived of the project, Mendoza simply set out to write a screenplay (along with co-screenwriter Gloria LaMorte) that would do justice to the real-life story of her immigrant mother who became homeless with two children when she first arrived in the U.S. The process took two years.

"We were just focused on writing a good script," Mendoza said in an interview during a recent screening of her film at the San Diego Film Festival. "And once that was done we went on to the next job." [Read more]

ENTRE NOS INTERVIEW from Mario Diaz on Vimeo.

Entre Nos opens at the Quad Cinema in NYC on Friday, May 14th and will be shown on HBO Latino in the fall.

*Mario Díaz, is a filmmaker and blogger [http://diazfilm.blogspot.com/]