Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, Dile Que No Soy Malo)

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Doors open at 6PM

Writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas turns his hometown into the heartbeat of his debut feature, teaming up with street-cast talent Collado and Checo, to deliver a raw and deeply authentic, slice-of-life look at life in The Bronx. With humor and grit, Vargas paints a tender portrait of the chaos and charm of urban life, as well as the ups and downs of youthful abandon when life takes an unexpected turn.

In a tight knit Dominican American community in The Bronx, Rico (Juan Collado) is hustling his way through the summer, selling bootleg ”nutcracker” cocktails out of a beach cooler and chasing girls without a care in the world. But when his teenage girlfriend, Destiny (Destiny Checo), begins crashing at his place with his family, turning their small apartment into a stage for their messy, complicated young love, it’s only a matter of time before they’re hit with the sobering reality of growing up too fast in a city that waits for no one.