te amo tanto pero eres tan difícil

Te Amo Tanto Pero Eres Tan Dificíl premiered at True/False Film Festival (2025) following a work-in-progress presentation at Third Horizon Film Festival at the Perez Art Museum (PAMM). It has since screened internationally and received the First-Time Filmmaker Award at Nitehawk Film Festival in NYC.

A daughter and mother navigate the fragile terrain of love and resentment through collaborative performance and open dialogue, interwoven with archival footage of a road trip marking the daughter’s first return to the Dominican Republic in over a decade.

This work is commissioned by the Forward Fellowship Grant and made possible with support from the Knight Foundation and JustFilms Ford Foundation. This story starts after ten years of undocumentation prevented the filmmaker from leaving the U.S. - - - Press Kit

i love you so much but you are so difficult