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Break It and Make It Their Own: An Interview with Joel Alfonso Vargas

Summary by In Review Online
I was not surprised that I was deeply charmed by young Joel Alfonso Vargas’ Mad Bills To Pay, which screened at this year’s New Directors/New Films Festival at MoMA. It’s a movie after my heart, a Biggie-quoting, micro-budget, largely improvised indie about Rico (Juan Collado), a Dominican teenager who “makes a living” selling nutcrackers on the beach in the Bronx. It descends from two rich traditions of New York City filmmaking: it’s a classic …
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In Review Online broke the news in on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
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