Mosquita y Mari
Logline
Two teenage girls struggle to make sense of their lives and the powerful bond between them in a pre-gentrified San Francisco, circa 1985.
Aurora Guerrero
Screenwriter/ Director
Aurora Guerrero was born and raised in San Francisco Bay Area by Mexican immigrant parents. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Chicano Studies from UC Berkeley, then obtained an MFA in film directing at Cal Arts. Since, Aurora has directed award-winning short films, including Pura Lengua (2005 Sundance Film Festival) and Viernes Girl (winner of the 2005 HBO/NYILFF short film competition). Based on the strength of her first feature-length script, Mosquita Y Mari, Aurora was awarded the 2005 Sundance Ford Fellowship, a 2005 Paul Robeson Development Grant, and selected to participate in the Hedgebrook Writers-in-Residency program. Her accomplishments as an emerging writer/director also gained her admission into Film Independent‘s Project:Involve program.
Jim McKay
Producer
Jim McKay is a film and videomaker and co-founder, along with Michael Stipe, of C-Hundred Film Corp. He is the writer and director of the feature films Girls Town, Our Song, Everyday People, and Angel. McKay served as a producer on American Movie, Spring Forward, Scars, Stranger Inside, Backward Looks, Far Corners, Tree Shade, La Boda and Escuela, Brother to Brother, and Room. McKay was a Rockefeller Fellow in 2003 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2004.