The family has arrived!

Gloria La Morte,

C0-director/Co-writer

After 9 days of shooting exteriors in the August heat, the deafening street corners of Jackson Heights and the mosquito haven of our canning depot, something wonderful happened to me today while shooting in the cramped, stuffy and uninspiring studio apartment our character Antonio has waiting for his family at the film's beginning: Just as the family has made it this far, I thought to myself, so have we. It was a proud moment.

That space has lived in my head for over two years and to finally see Mariana, Gabriel and giggly Andrea enter, dirty and sweaty, and to experience their polite yet obvious disappointment was magical.

So it's official! The family "arrived to Queens" for the first time Day 10 at 5:30pm... I will never forget.