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Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and desire unite them as they chase their dreams and each other from Havana to New York to Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas. With an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist and five-time Grammy庐-winning composer Bebo Vald茅s, Chico & Rita captures a defining moment in the evolution of history and jazz, and features the music of (and animated cameos by) Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Tito Puente, Chano Pozo, and others.

Fernando Trueba is a multi-award-winning writer, director and producer. The Age Of Beauty (Belle Epoque), starring Penelope Cruz, won both the Oscar庐 and BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film. Trueba鈥檚 last film The Dancer And The Thief (El baile de la victoria) was Spain鈥檚 submission to the 2010 Academy庐 Awards, and received 10 Goya庐 Academy Award nominations. 

It was with Trueba鈥檚 Latin jazz documentary Calle 54 that he began his collaboration and friendship with Javier Mariscal. Mariscal is an artist and designer based in Barcelona. His design, Cobi, was chosen as the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He wrote and directed the animated television series The Cobi Troup and co-directed Chico & Rita. Mariscal鈥檚 brother Tono Errando worked as a director of commercials and music videos before directing the popular animated television series Twipsy.

Directed by Jo茫o Nascimento, the documentary intertwines percussion performances and instruments with themes such as cultural racism, traditional drumming, technological drumming, African mythologies, and other contemporary sounds.

From the perspective of important people from the universe of percussion, the film features exclusive interviews with Paulo Dias (Associa莽茫o Cultural Cachuera); Beth Belli (Regent of the Block Il煤 Ob谩 de Mim); Dinho Nascimento (Orquestra de Berimbaus do Morro do Querosene); H茅lio Nogueira (Luthier from Atabaques, resident of Morro do Querosene); Silvanny Sivuca (percussionist in the Emicida band); Fernando Alab锚 (founder of Bloco Il煤 In茫); Simone Sou (percussionist); Alu谩 Nascimento (former member of Stomp); Enoque Santos (dancer); Pedro Bandeira (Cuban percussionist from Al谩fia); Dinho Gon莽alves (Percussionist), and Marcos Suzano (percussionist).

Jo茫o Nascimento is a multi-language artist, filmmaker, and researcher of black culture in the diaspora. He trained in caruru parties, batuques, sambas de roda, and capoeira movements in the backyard of his house in Morro do Querosene. He graduated in Music Production at the Universidade Anhembi Morumbi and he is the founding director of Instituto Na莽茫o and coordinator of Ponto de Cultura Afrobase. Nascimento directed, wrote, and soundtracked the feature film Dan莽as Negras; directed, wrote, and soundtracked the feature film, Diaspora Drums (Tambores da Di谩spora); and directed the web series Escola do Samba, produced in 2021 by Kalakuta Films. Member of Frente 3 de Fevereiro since 2004, he co-created the medium-length film Zumbi Somos N贸s. 

Founding director of Cia Treme Terra and a percussion teacher since 1999, Nascimento has performed as a percussionist in several countries, such as Germany, the United States, France, Cuba, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Norway, Sweden, and England.

Director Gabriella A. Moses exposes the community鈥檚 complicity by way of twelve-year-old Desi who is constantly exposed to unwanted advances and crude comments from older men, both visiting and homegrown. She works at the family restaurant alongside her mother Carmen, who encourages the behavior, in a once serene beachside town now bustling with foreign tourists.

Music is Desi鈥檚 escape. She dreams of parlaying her nascent musical talents into a full-fledged singing career. When she stumbles across a group of local rappers that set themselves apart from the scene, her passions begin to boil to the surface. She seeks to avoid the common fate of growing mature before her time and falling prey to the morally bankrupt adults in her life who encourage her to forgo her innocence for profit.

Boca Chica explores themes of identity, family, codependency, and truth, and exposes how local social norms present the sexualization of very young girls as a path to survival.

Gabriella A. Moses is an award-winning Dominican-Guyanese American writer and director based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of New York University鈥檚 Tisch School of the Arts.

Gabriella has received support from the Sundance Institute, New York Women in Film & TV, Tribeca Film Institute, The Black List, and SFFILM. She was most recently featured on the 2023 Black List Latinx List and was selected for the 2022 LALIFF x Netflix Latinx Inclusion Fellowship Program with her short Sin Ra铆ces.

Her directorial debut, the feature film Boca Chica (2023), was filmed in the Dominican Republic. The film premiered in the International Narrative Competition at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, where she won the prestigious 11th Annual Nora Ephron Award.

Gabriella believes in sharing stories with underrepresented protagonists that test viewers鈥� perceptions of identity and their imaginations.

When Antonia Singla graced the stage, she did so without hearing the music. Born deaf to a Romani family in the suburbs of Barcelona, La Singla鈥攁s she would affectionately come to be called鈥攔ose to international acclaim by the age of 17. Quite literally moving to the beat of her own drum, La Singla鈥檚 pistol-like percussions were nothing short of revolutionary, gripping the world of flamenco with a dynamism never before experienced. But at the height of her fame, La Singla disappeared from the dance stage, leaving a scattered archival legacy of the world鈥檚 best bailaora behind.

Paloma Zapata鈥檚 hybrid film stunningly weaves the past and present together, expertly layering archival footage with passionate music and sound. One question drives her forward鈥攖o find La Singla herself and finally hear, in the dancer鈥檚 own words, the heartbreaking story of her life.

Born in Murcia in 1979, Paloma Zapata holds a degree in Fine Arts and a Master鈥檚 in Creative Documentary. In 2008, she founded her production company, La F谩brica Naranja, in Barcelona. Since then, she has built an impressive career as a director, editor, and producer, specializing in international music videos and documentaries.

Deeply rooted in the music world, Zapata鈥檚 films have been broadcast on platforms such as Movistar+, Al Jazeera, TVE, and TV3. Her films premiered at renowned festivals like BAFICI (Argentina) and Guadalajara (Mexico).

In 2020, her film Peret: Yo soy la rumba was nominated for the Gaud铆 Awards by the Catalan Film Academy and received the Ministry of Culture award in Yalta, presented by Nikita Mikhalkov.

In 2022, she developed the documentary project La Singla (a Spanish-German co-production). The documentary participated in international laboratories and forums such as San Sebasti谩n, DocsBarcelona, DOK.FEST Munich, Sunny Side of the Doc. It got the first prize at Abycine LANZA and DocsValencia. The film was part of the international program Circle Women Doc Accelerator in Serbia, Croatia, and Italy.

Pedro鈥攐ne of Mexico鈥檚 most-coveted actors Ra煤l Briones,鈥攊s a fiery and charismatic undocumented Mexican cook who struggles to navigate the pressures of his precarious existence. Torn between his dreams of legal status and his volatile reality, Pedro faces mounting tensions when he becomes the prime suspect in a theft investigation. His relationship with Julia鈥攑layed by Academy Award漏 nominee Rooney Mara鈥攁n American waitress grappling with her own personal conflicts, further complicates his journey as their lives collide in moments of passion, betrayal, and revelation.

Through a mix of dark humor and poignant drama, La Cocina delves into the invisible lives of immigrant workers who keep the city running while enduring systemic exploitation.

The film鈥檚 rich ensemble cast and surrealist touches transform the kitchen into a microcosm of societal divides, where every interaction reflects broader struggles of identity, class, and survival.

Alonso Ruizpalacios is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. His work consistently places extremely personal, human stories against the historical or contemporary backdrops of very specific times, places, and institutions, highlighting the existential discrepancies that arise in the wake of the systemic injustices that cast shadows over such settings.

Ruizpalacios studied stage directing in Mexico City before moving to London, where he trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA).

His first feature film, 骋耻虉别谤辞蝉 (2013), won over 40 prizes in festivals around the world, including Best First Feature at the Berlinale 2013. The film was lauded by critics and won five Ariel Awards in 2015, including Best Picture, Best First Film, and Best Director.

His fourth film, La Cocina (2024), starring Rooney Mara, was selected for the Tribeca Film Festival and won him international recognition. Set in present-day New York City, La Cocina centers around Pedro, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who must grapple with the inconsistencies of the ever-elusive 鈥淎merican Dream.鈥� The film embraces its cultural melting-pot of an environment, detailing the everyday joys and pains of the immigrants who cross paths in the restaurant where they work.