Leticia Tonos Paniagua's second feature CRISTO REY premieres at the Toronto Film Festival this month. A 2000 graduate of the school, Leticia was the first Dominican woman to direct a feature film (LOVE CHILD).
Set in the Dominican Republic, Leticia Tonos Paniagua’s uniquely Caribbean retelling of Romeo and Juliet chronicles the love between a kind-hearted teenager, ostracized for his mixed Haitian-Dominican descent, and the beautiful sister of a local drug kingpin he’s hired to protect.
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