"How the Garcia Girls spent their summer"- terrific!

"amusing, touching and thoroughly enjoyable" -Kirk Honey cutt, Hollywood Reporter

* Official Selection- Sundance Film Festival
* Winner -Paris Critic's Prize
* Winner -Moscow- Best Picture *Winner -San Sebastian Special Mention

This past Friday, I attended a private screening of "How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer" with Doris Benavides. This movie will be released by Maya Cinema on May 16, 2008. Written and directed by Georgina Garcia Riedel. Starring Elizabeth Pena, America Ferrera, and Lucy Gallardo amongst others.

I would encourage everyone to see it. This movie is funny, reflects life experiences and it shows 3 generations of women dealing with day to day challenges. It was also very touching..., this film allows you to enter the lives of the 3 characters and understand by being in their shoes. It reminds me of my child hood growing up in a small town but with out the excitement in the movie..LoL... :-)

The moral to the story is you can't get caught up with what people are saying or will say. Life is about what makes us happy; the people we allow to enter in our lives. Nothing is better than sharing a nuturing companionship and enjoying life to the fullest with no regret.

The director wrote about her own experience with her abuelita/Grandmother. Her grandmother wanted to purchase a car but it did not happen. In this movie, Granny buys a car and it makes a difference to her happiness . I really loved the images at the end of the story...life is meant to be enjoyed and we deserve to be happy.

This movie will be out on May 16th, please be sure to check out the website http://www.garciagirlsmovie.com/ OR http://www.mayreleaseing.com/ .

It's imperative to attend during the first week of the movies release. Movie executives base the results on future movies. Let's let them that we want to see more movies like this.

Maya Pictures/Maya Releasing is uniquely poised to become the first broad-based Latino-oriented filmed entertainment company. MAYA ENTERTAINMENT, created by award winning producer Moctesuma Esparza, is a vertically integrated company comprised of Maya Releasing, Maya Cinemas and Maya Pictures and is the only production/distribution/exhibition entity in the United States, dedicated to the constantly growing US Latino Market

Pictured below is Georgina Garcia Riedel and two cast members at the Hispanic Lifestyle Women's Conference in Riverside, CA.

Synopsis:

How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer . What does female desire look like? And how do self-inflicted limitations and social expectations shade and color it? In her tenderly comic, richly textured feature debut, Georgina Garcia Riedel lovingly explores the terrain of longing, loneliness, and self-realization among three generations of single women in a Mexican American family as they grapple with romantic drought.

Dona Genoveva (Lucy Gallardo), the Garcia family matriarch, decides to buy a car. The only catch is that she doesn't know how to drive. When she enlists Don Pedro's pedagogical skills, sparks begin to fly--at her house and beyond. Her daughter, Lolita, played with deadpan poignancy by Elizabeth Pena, seems to have hit a dry spell until things start to sizzle at the butcher shop where she works. Meanwhile, Lolita's teenage daughter, Blanca, a radiant America Ferrera ('Real Women Have Cuves'), engineers an awakening all her own. It's as if the languid heat wave has thawed every one's defenses and jump-started a sexual revolution.

"Stay tuned as Addy's drives away in the Addy mobile with sparkle and bling. "