Cachada: The Opportunity

[Available to watch between Oct. 16 at 12 a.m. and Oct. 22 at 11:59 p.m. as part of the 8th annual Cine Latino at Home festival at the MSP Film Society at the St. Anthony on Main Theater; for information, log on to mspfilm.org or ticketing@mspfilm.org.] A compelling, gut-wrenching, powerful, gripping, 81-minute, 2019 documentary that showcases five street vendors, including Evelyn Chileno, Ruth H. Vega, Magdalena Henriquez, Wendy Henriquez, and Magaly Lemus, in El Salvador who decide to form a theater group with the help of teacher Egly Larreynaga in their poverty-stricken neighborhood, and while creating their play from their own lives and rehearsing during the workshops, they undergo a healing, cathartic experience as they relive traumatic memories of troubled pasts dealing with sexual, physical, and emotional abuse and struggling with hunger, anger, and everyday life.
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