Gabriela Ortega

Determined to win an ice cream competition with a flavor inspired by her late Tia Abuela’s Puerto Rican treats, a teen girl turns to her trailer park neighbors to help figure out the winning recipe.

Morenita is a genre-mixing visual poetry experience that digs into the bridges and barriers of language, womanhood and ancestral curses through the intersecting journeys of two Latina immigrants in Los Angeles.