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Cinema Series: Mi Vida Loca (1993) screening with guest Allison Anders



W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
December 04, 2018 at 7:00pm

Conversation with Director Allison Anders followed by film screening

In Mi Vida Loca Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.

Allison Anders is an American independent film director whose films include Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca and Grace of My Heart. Anders has collaborated with fellow UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate Kurt Voss and has also worked as a television director. Anders' films have been shown at the Cannes International Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant as well as a Peabody Award.

a movie scene where two girls are fighting
a movie scene where two girls are fighting