Tijuana Makes Me Happy Dylan Vecherria USA/Mexico, Drama, 2006 79 min., DV, Color Spanish with English Subtitles Metropolitan 14 Monday, April 23, 9 PM Mature Audiences

Indio is a fourteen-year-old boy who lives in Playas de Tijuana. Every day after school, he works at Sacramento’s ranch hoping to buy his own cockfighting rooster, El Gyro. When his dad refuses to help him buy the rooster, Indio starts selling empanadas and washing cars. One day, after he skips school to play with his friends, Indio meets and becomes infatuated with Brianda, a young prostitute working in the red light district. As time passes, Indio learns what it means to make money, a tough journey that takes him across the border, from the slums of Montes Olímpicos to San Diego. Greed, however, takes the best of Indio. Neglecting his rooster, he fights El Gyro to win over the love of Brianda.

Dylan Verrechia was born in Paris. He graduated with honors in film and television from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Cameraman for directors such as Spike Lee, Todd Solondz, Sam Pollard, Kim Peirce, Irwin Winkler, and Jean Rouch, Dylan worked in affiliation with production companies such as New Line Cinema, Good Machine, Killer Films, Panamax Films, MGM, PBS, HBO, Time Warner, France 2, the French Cinémathèque, Greenpeace, Condé Nast, Heartbeat Digital, InDiGent, Gigantic, Notorious, MTV and VH1. Dylan has produced a score of documentaries including Kids of the Majestic, Across the Wire, Arakimentari, and Maestres do Mamulengo. Tijuana Makes Me Happy is his first feature film.

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Producer: James Lefkowitz

Screenwriter: James Lefkowitz

Cinematographer: James Lefkowitz

Editing: James Lefkowitz