After School, a film by Mauricio Mendoza and Yeniffer Behrens, is True Form Films’ first venture. It’s serious, funny, and most of all thoughtful.
L-r: actors Mauricio Mendoza, Yeniffer Behrens,
Adrian Moreira-Behrens and Se Fija’s Angela Ortíz
Mauricio Mendoza has been waiting for a project like After School for a very long time. His old friend and fellow writer Ruben Padilla began talking about working together on a project some twenty-four years ago, and now at long last, he’s given Mendoza a compelling and universal story. The film is co-directed by Mendoza and Carlos Meléndez, and features a talented young man, Adrian Moreira-Behrens; much of its funding came from an ambitious Kickstarter project.
But, Mendoza says After School is more than just another crowd-funded project. “It’s a movement to expose the horrors of organized child slavery and child abuse right here in America,” added Dewayne Cox, the film’s producing partner. “Most often when we think of human slavery, we think of ‘third-world-countries,’ but the fact is that there are tens of thousands of children right here at home that are forced into slave labor and even prostitution. It may be happening right in your own neighborhood.”
A release date for After School has not yet been announced, but we’ll let you know. Buzz is building, however; there was a full house for its first screening just after the New Year, and the audience of more than 200 left very impressed.
More information on After School is available here, at their web site.
