3 Américas

3 Américas is a 2007 Argentine/U.S. dramatic film written and directed by Cristina Kotz Cornejo. The film was produced by Cristina Kotz Cornejo and Angela Counts. The story takes place in Boston, Massachusetts and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

3 Américas
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCristina Kotz Cornejo
Produced byCristina Kotz Cornejo
Angela Counts
Written byCristina Kotz Cornejo
StarringKristen Gonzalez
Ana Maria Colombo
Nicolás Meradi
Gy Mirano
Gilberto Arribas
Music byGermaine Franco; additional: Andy Kotz
CinematographyChad Davidson
Edited byCristina Kotz Cornejo
Distributed byVanguard Cinema
Cinetic Rights Mgmt.
Release date
Running time
98 minutes
CountryArgentina
United States
LanguageSpanish
English

Plot

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.

Festivals/Exhibitions
  • 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

Home media

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


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