Jonathan De La Torre

Devoted gay son Manuel Espinoza tests an experimental brain modulation device––the Fiat Lux 5000––to reconnect with his dementia-afflicted father, triggering a violent family legacy. A Sci-Fi Drama set in the near future, FIAT LUX 5000 examines notions of Mexican Immigrant identity, caregiving and familial trauma in the face of dubious technological innovations.

The odyssey of survival of an undocumented New York city chef and a young girl from El Salvador, after they get stranded in the deserts of southern Arizona.

When confronting a lifetime of his dying father’s toxic machismo, a man considers an alternate possibility.

A death in the family forces old friends back together where, over the course of a night, their relationship unravels into unresolved emotion.

A successful writer falls in love with a man he continuously meets in his dreams, distorting his sense of reality, forcing him to make an impossible decision.

Following the death of a close uncle, siblings Guillermo, Lucia, and Nora are forced to interact with each other and their extended family during the customary nine days of a Novenario.

A rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.

A short film about a closeted gay teenager coming out to a conservative Latino family.