The Papaya Factory

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Tribeca All Access® 2007

Logline

Fourteen-year-old Lucy Alvarez faces an unexpected challenge when a rival student decides to go head-to-head with her Quinceanera party, a school project, by throwing an all-out Sweet Sixteen party.

The Papaya Factory

Anna Margarita Albelo

Director/ Screenwriter/ Producer

A Cuban-American native of Miami, Florida, Anna Margarita Albelo graduated from Florida State University and studied film in London as a Bernard Sliger Presidential scholar. Based in Paris since 1993, Albelo has shown a number of her works at the Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Turin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Amsterdam Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and the LADYFEST in Berlin. She was a semi-finalist at the 2006 AFI Women’s Directing Workshop, and an honoree in the Narrative category at the 2005 IFP New York’s Project Involve. Her feature documentary, Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia, won the Audience Award for Best Original Soundtrack at the 2005 OUTFEST in Los Angeles.  Currently based in the United States, Albelo recently finished shooting her documentary, A Lez in Wonderland, and is working on a feature script, The Papaya Factory.

The Papaya Factory

James O'Brien

Producer

Jamin O’Brien graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and has worked on a number of independent films, including Hurricane Street, Desert Blue, Stardom, The Motel, and Things Behind the Sun. His producer credits include Into the Blue, Boynton Beach Bereavement Club, and Just Like the Son, which world premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and won the Alice Nella Citta Sidebar award at the 2006 Rome Film Festival. He executive produced West 32nd Street, a US-Korea co-production written and directed by The Motel director Michael Kang, and launched a new initiative for Caribbean filmmakers through his production company, John Doe Entertainment, in partnership with the Florida International University.