Official Trailer for 'Esta Isla' Award-Winning Puerto Rican Indie Film

"We fought for something different on this island." Tribeca Films is releasing this indie creation titled Esta Isla for release on VOD soon – the title translates from Spanish to This Island in English. It premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival last year before playing in limited theaters in March this year. It also won the prestigious John Cassavetes Award at the Indie Spirit Awards earlier this year, the first-ever Puerto Rican film to ever win any Spirit Award. Young lovers Bebo and Lola, from different social worlds in Puerto Rico, escape to a remote area of the island after a murder occurs. Esta Isla explores themes of identity, memory, and belonging in an island community and is now a landmark of contemporary Boricua cinema. Starring Zion Ortiz, Fabiola Brown, Teofilo Torres, Xavier Morales, Audicio Robles & Georgina Borri. If you're intrigued, you can catch up with it on VOD soon. Tribeca explains: "With grounded performances & striking cinematography, Jones and Carretero's confident first feature is a potent exploration of wayward youth seeking a better future for themselves amidst their precarious present." It looks like a powerful debut. // Continue Reading ›

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