Synopsis:
Raised within a highly structured family, but without my father, I often wonder what happened. Could I have been only an accident of a brief encounter? The Alcantara family - my mother’s family - includes my five aunts, my four uncles, my thirty eight cousins, my eighteen nieces and fourteen nephews. They are the people who have surrounded me most of my life and I am very proud of them. My mom is a single mother of two children. I had always felt that my family, perceived me as different. This documentary will reunite the entire family that now has fallen apart. I am Alacantra seeks answers to many of my questions, some of which I have known from the start. Follow my journey of a young woman learning my past, understanding my present and moving on with the future.

http://www.yosoyalcantara.com

Crew:
Director: Gisela Sanders Alcántara
Producer: Wilson Reyes
Direction of Photography: Carlos Arango
Aditional Camera work: Adrián Parisí, Edgar Alcántara, Ligia Pintado
Editing: Gisela Sanders Alcántara
Sound Recordist: Gustavo Patiño
Still Photography: Edgar Alcántara
Line Producer: Mariana Miranda
Transcripts: Bozena Bogdziewicz