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Washington Heights Get Out!
"Washington Heights" tells the story of Carlos Ramirez, a young illustrator burning to escape the Latino neighborhood of the same name to make a splash in New York City's commercial downtown comic book scene. When his father, who owns a bodega in the Heights, is shot in a burglary attempt, Carlos is forced to put his dream on hold and run the store. In the process, he comes to understand that if he is to make it as a comic artist, he must engage with the community he comes from, take that experience back out into the world, and put it in his work.Read moreLess
"Washington Heights" tells the story of Carlos Ramirez, a young illustrator burning to escape the Latino neighborhood of the same name to make a splash in New York City's commercial downtown comic book scene. When his father, who owns a bodega in the Heights, is shot in a burglary attempt, Carlos is forced to put his dream on hold and run the store. In the process, he comes to understand that if he is to make it as a comic artist, he must engage with the community he comes from, take that experience back out into the world, and put it in his work.
The story
"Washington Heights" tells the story of Carlos Ramirez, a young illustrator burning to escape the Latino neighborhood of the same name to make a splash in New York City's commercial downtown comic book scene. When his father, who owns a bodega in the Heights, is shot in a burglary attempt, Carlos is forced to put his dream on hold and run the store. In the process, he comes to understand that if he is to make it as a comic artist, he must engage with the community he comes from, take that experience back out into the world, and put it in his work.
Cast & crew
Tomas MilianEddie
Manny PerezCarlos
Bobby CannavaleAngel
Jude CiccolellaSean
Andrea NavedoMaggie
David ZayasDavid
Callie ThorneRaquel
Judy ReyesDaisy
Jamie TirelliGuillermo
Michael HyattMichelleExplore the crew
- Director
- Alfredo De Villa
- Writer
- Nat Moss
- Writer
- Alfredo De Villa
- Writer
- Manny Perez
- Writer
- Junot Diaz
- Producer
- Steven J. Brown
- Producer
- Luis Dantas
- Producer
- Tom Donahue
- Producer
- Manny Perez
- Producer
- Alfredo Rodriguez de Villa
- Director of Photography
- Claudio Chea
- Editor
- Tom Donahue