Lake Los Angeles (2014)
85 min
After crossing into the U.S. with no family to speak of, young Cecilia finds herself in the charge of Francisco, a lonely Cuban immigrant long separated from his own family. Francisco operates a way station for border crossers on the outskirts of Lake Los Angeles, a surreal, desiccated lakebed in the California desert. While he copes with the alienation of living alone in a foreign land and the impossibility of realizing the American dream, Cecilia aimlessly wanders the dusty landscape, accompanied only by her fantastical imagination and distant memories of motherly love.
- Release date
- June 14, 2014
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Roberto Sanchez as Francisco Fumero
- David Ury as Dan Dan
- René Mena as Eduardo
- Atsuko Okatsuka as Atsuko Sakamoto
- Corina Calderon as Angelica
- David Carey Foster as Burt Meldrum
- Laimarie Serrano as Claudia Fumero
- Eloy Méndez as Adria
- Erika Sabel Flores as Marlene Trujillo
- Ivy Khan as Tammy Keitel
Crew
- Mike Ott · Director
- Atsuko Okatsuka · Writer
- Mike Ott · Writer
- Heika Burnison · Producer
- Drea Clark · Producer
- Alex Gioulakis · Producer
- Atsuko Okatsuka · Producer
- María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir · Composer
- Mike Gioulakis · Cinematographer
- J. Santos · Editor
- Nicole Arbusto · Casting director
- Min-Jung Kim · Production designer