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DIRECTOR: María del Mar Rosario
COUNTRY: Puerto Rico, Cuba, United States
LANGUAGE: Spanish and English
DURATION: 17′
YEAR: 2020
Genre: Fiction
Mon
Jun 28
2021
6:00 pm

Venue

Third Horizon Virtual Cinema
TYPE: Short Films

Synopsis

Pressured by her economic situation, a newly arrived immigrant in New York enters a world of embellished sex work.

Nymph screens as part of the shorts program Strong Female Lead, on Monday, June 28 at 6:00 pm.

Please note: this film can be viewed only once during a three-hour window beginning at the scheduled time. For more information on viewing your film, please visit our FAQ and How to Watch pages.

About the Director

María del Mar Rosario is a filmmaker from Puerto Rico. In her work, which traverses documentary and fiction film, she explores themes at the intersection of gender and colonialism. Her films have premiered in festivals such as IDFA, Hot Docs and Palms Springs, among others. She is part of the New York Latinx Art Collective, and was a mentee of the 2020-2021 Independent Study Program of the Contemporary Art Museum of San Juan while developing her next film. A graduate from Columbia University, where she double-majored in Creative Writing and Film Studies, María del Mar ultimately completed her graduate degree at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba. She holds an MFA in Media Arts from the City University of New York, lives in Harlem, and hopes to expand her work to her native Puerto Rico.