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¡FIESTA! Quinceañera

girls practicing for a quince

¡FIESTA! Quinceañera is a docuseries that weaves the lives of three Latina girls and a seasoned drag artist as they celebrate their quinceañera, a complex and colorful rite of passage. The creative spirit of Latinx communities and their struggle to retain their roots and traditions shine through this multicultural coming of age story for a new America.

Series

Indie Lens Storycast

Premiere Date

July 24, 2018

Length

50 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production, Development

Rodrigo Dorfman

Producer/Director

Rodrigo Dorfman is an award-winning multimedia producer living in Durham, North Carolina known for his work documenting the Latinx community in the South. He has worked with POV, HBO, and the BBC among others. His films have been screened at some of the top international film festivals in the world (Toronto, Full Frame, Edinburgh, Telluride, Human Rights Watch). With his father he has won best screenplay award from the Writer's Guild of Great Britain for Prisoners in Time (1997). His short One Night in Kernersville won Jury Award for best short at Full Frame (2011). His documentary, Tommy! was recently broadcast on PBS stations across the USA through UNCTV’s Reel South program. His latest work, NUEVOlution! Latinos and the New South, a national touring museum exhibit based on his documentary work will be on display at the Atlanta History Center. He is an editor and cinematographer of the documentary "Always in Season" about the impact of lynching on four different communities and has just finished his latest documentary, This Taco Truck Kills Fascists.
Peter Eversoll

Co-Director

Peter Eversoll is photographer and visual artist working primarily on documentary projects, as well as projects using community generated photography and video, both in the USA and abroad. He works with farmworkers in Eastern North Carolina through the NC Migrant Education Program as an education advocate giving photography and other workshops to adolescent farmworkers. He co-founded the farmworker advocacy non-profit NC FIELD (www.ncfield.org) in 2010. He taught painting and contemporary art at La Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo in Mexico, and photography at the Living Arts College in Raleigh, and has an MFA in painting from La Academia de San Carlos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. From 2007-08 he was Visiting Artist at FARO de Oriente in Mexico City, and an Artist in Residence at Golden Belt Studios in Durham, NC in 2009. He has exhibited his work throughout the USA and Latin America and is a member of the AztlanPhoto agency. From 1998 to 2004 he earned his chops as a dairy farmer in Oaxaca, Mexico.