Event details
- When: Friday, October 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
- Where: UCF Visual Arts Auditorium: 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32816
- Category: Entertainment
- Presented by: Annabelle Conroy
The film Boca Chica will be screened in person and then made available on the festival’s virtual platform for a week after the showing. A trailer for the film includes Spanish and English with English subtitles, and the cast includes Scarlet Camilo, Lia Chapman, Jean Cruz and Richarson Díaz.
The program notes describe the film as an example of the New Wave of Dominican cinema, written by the team behind Pelo Malo, and it received the Nora Ephron Award at the most recent Tribeca Film Festival. The story follows a young girl in the Dominican Republic as she approaches womanhood, highlighting the child sex trade and its impact on lives.
Registration / ticket information
Event listing published by Events at UCF:
https://events.ucf.edu/event/4214365/film-boca-chica/
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