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Synopsis
Jenny is her family's first-generation pageant queen and scholarship recipient at eighteen. Raised in the wild '80s Miami era, she managed to shape a bright future for herself despite her lower-middle-class environment and her family’s Narco life. Just as it seems she has a way out of this clandestine world, her parents are put in jail for a drug deal gone wrong. Overnight, Jenny had to become the guardian of her young siblings and ensure their survival.
Without her mother Mara's fearless edge, Jenny is left alone protecting her siblings while being sexualized, harassed, and robbed by her mother's so-called friends. Mara and federal agents ask Jenny to lure her favorite uncle out of hiding to spare Mara's looming life sentence in prison. At eighteen, Jenny is asked to do what most adults can never do in a lifetime. Ultimately, the question is: Will Jenny follow the chaos of her family's choices or forge a new life path with Her Choices?
The film is not only the rise and fall of the Venezuelan Narco Queen; it is the promise of a young girl's life turned upside-down by her mother's choices. It is the story of surviving and overcoming bad choices & judgments made by those you trust the most.
Bio
Patricia Chica is a multiple award-winning Canadian-Salvadorian director, producer, and writer with over 60 hours of content under her belt. She specializes in high-quality auteur driven films that depict strong characters and thought-provoking stories with striking visuals. Patricia’s work has been Official Selection at over 300 international film festivals and she has spoken or screened in theatres, art centers, universities, and conferences all around the world. Countries like Canada, the USA and Mexico as well as El Salvador have presented retrospectives of her films in the past few years. Chica has also directed and/or worked as a producer of world-class primetime broadcast content for networks such as National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Showcase, Oxygen, Animal Planet, Bravo Canada, Canal D, ARTV, CBC, CBS, Travel Channel, UniMás, and El Rey Network just to name a few. She is perfectly fluent in English, French, and Spanish and has built a loyal social media fan base and connections in those three markets. Patricia Chica grew up in her beloved Montreal, Québec, did her internship in Paris at age 22 and has had professional residencies in New York, Orlando, Toronto and London, UK. Since 2014, Patricia divides her time between Montreal and Los Angeles.
Credits
Producer - Patricia Chica
