Shortly after completion of the film, our mission for distribution began. We now have acquired representation by Ostrow and Company and are on our way to the Toronto Film Market in September and then to the American Film Market in Santa Monica this November.

We are now raising funds to pay for the marketing and promotion involved with selling the film to a potential distributor. The money will go to prints, ads, screeners, booths, etc. This is a great challenge, but with the backing from a producer's representative, good promotional material, and one last strong push, we are confident that we can get our film sold and distributed throughout the U.S. and beyond.

We ask that you please join us in this last effort no matter how big or small your contribution may be. Thanks for all the support from our San Antonio community and friends, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Our Project's page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1914519352/lets-take-cyn-to-toronto-and-afm

Pablo Veliz
Director and Writer

ABOUT THE FILM:
CARLA IS ONE OF MILLIONS OF YOUNG LATINAS who form the permanent U.S. sub- culture of the children of undocumented workers. Growing up in the U.S.—“the other side” in the common parlance of Mexico—she is “neither from here nor there,” her life enmeshed in an uneasy truce between mutually dependent peoples.

As a young child, Carla aspires to become a physician, hoping one day to cure her beloved but chronically ill grandfather. Her dream is encouraged by her family’s simple, powerful love as she moves from one academic victory to the next.

Yet her family’s legal status—and their hardscrabble efforts to eke out a meager existence—anchors Carla to a fading past even as she forges toward an expect- ant future. Full of fire and hope after college graduation, Carla faces full force the consequences of her legal status, and her vision of medical school is soon abandoned.

As Carla navigates these new and treacherous waters of disappointment, her story occasionally glances off that of Krupa, an Indian girl escaping a painful personal event. In the story’s climax, their very separate experiences fully inter- sect in a single moment of forgiveness and redemption.

These are the children of the DREAM Act. And it is for them that writer and director Pablo Veliz (director of La Trajedia de Macario, Sundance 2006 Official Selection) creates this timeless story of the immigrant’s relentless pursuit of dreams that seemingly lie just beyond reach.

view the trailer here.