PRESS
"Mosquita y Mari,” an unassuming indie jewel, resists all of the clichés that its story of the fraught friendship between two 15-year-old girls invites. Yolanda (Fenessa Pineda) and Mari (Venecia Troncoso) are high school classmates and neighbors growing up in Huntington Park, a struggling, predominantly Mexican neighborhood in Los Angeles County.”
- Stephen Holden, New York Times
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"Mosquita y Mari is never out to toy with audiences' perceptions, but to be honest about how feelings aren't neat and how, like plants, they grow toward the light.” - Kalvin Henley, Slant Magazine
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"First-time writer-director Aurora Guerrero beautifully captures the fluctuating dynamics of friendship between 15-year-old girls in “Mosquita y Mari,” a low-budget, high-achieving drama that makes excellent use of locations in Los Angeles’ predominantly Mexican immigrant neighborhood of Huntington Park. - Rob Nelson, Variety
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"Opposites attract in this Chicana coming-of-age movie. A tender and personal look into a first-crush, filmmaker Aurora Guerrero is impressive in her first feature outing." - Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter
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"No matter what your sexuality is, you feel the longing each girl has for the other, yet you understand their hesitation and confusion, too. After all, many of us can probably remember our own awkward teenage moments of love, lust, and first crushes." - Natalia Lusinski, Script Lab
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Huffington Post interviews Aurora Guerrero - Huffington Post
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Women in Film interviews Aurora Guerrero at Sundance 2012 - Women In Film
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San Francisco Chronicle interviews Aurora Guerrero - SF Chronicle
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Univision names Aurora Guerrero 1 0f 9 Filmmakers to watch - Univision
Indiwire names Aurora Guerrero 1 of 11 Latino Filmmakers "Killing it." - Indiewire