3 Américas

With summer approaching, 16-year-old América has two issues, or so she thinks. She hates school and her aunt Carolina's alcoholic husband, Joey. She passes the days shoplifting, hanging out with her friends and trying to avoid Joey.

After a life-changing event, América, whose Spanish is limited, is sent to Buenos Aires, Argentina to live with her reclusive and anti-American grandmother, Lucía América Campos. In Argentina, América struggles to find her place with a grandmother she has never known and to hold onto a friendship with Sergio, a neighbor twice her age.

• Kristen Gonzalez as América
• Ana Maria Colombo as Lucia
• Nicolás Meradi as Sergio
• Gy Mirano as Carolina
• Gilberto Arribas as Joey

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• The film premiered on October 11, 2007, at the Woodstock Film Festival.
• Ola Latin American Film Festival, Orlando, Florida, February 2008
• 12th Annual Harlem Stage on Screen: Creatively Speaking Film Series, March 2008
• Tiburon International Film Festival, Tiburon, CA, March 2008
• XXVI Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay, Montevideo, April 2008
• 11th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, April 2008
• Reel Rasquache Film Festival, California State University, Los Angeles, June 2008
• Brooklyn Academy of Music Film Screening Series, April 2008
• Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), May 2008
• New York International Latino Film Festival, July 2008
• Hartford International Film Festival, November 2008
• Yale University, January 2009

3 Américas was released on DVD in the US by Vanguard International Cinema on January 26, 2010.

• Official website
• 3 Américas at IMDb
• Wild Wimmin Films Site
• The Independent Review of 3 Américas
• WAMC Public Radio Interview Archived March 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
• 3 Américas on Indiewire Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
• Indiepix Interview with Cristina Kotz Cornejo