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A short film following Anna & Kirsten, a married couple caring for Anna’s terminally ill and homophobic father, who struggle to maintain their relationship through the difficult times they face.

To the outside, Gail and Ben have it all — two successful careers, a beautiful house, lots of vacations and an amazing nanny for their teenage daughter, Mali. However behind the facade, bad investments have the family disconnected, resentful and just about broke.

At the centre of this drama is Mali’s young lesbian Mexican nanny, Margarita. Unknown to her employers Margarita has been working for the family illegally for the past six years but despite all this she is passionate, resourceful and devoted to them.

But life is not all work for Margarita, the shy law student Jane is clearly in love with her but is hesitant to bring their relationship out from the closet. When Gail and Ben decide that the best way for them to save money is by firing Margarita they set off a chain of events that lead to her deportation.

But on the eve of her departure, Jane arrives with one proposition that could change everything.

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This sumptuous English-language ’50s period piece recounts the mid-life years of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (played by Miranda Otto, Lord of the Rings) when she left America to live and write in Rio de Janiero — where she would also fall in love with well-off architect Lota de Macedo Soares (butched up to the hilt by beautifully handsome Brazilian TV star Gloria Pires). Initial hostilities between the pair make way for a complicated yet long-lasting love affair that dramatically alters Bishop’s relationship to the world around her. From renowned Brazilian director Bruno Barreto (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands), Reaching for the Moon is an intimate snapshot of the search for inspiration, wherever and however you find it.

Coming to New York theaters 11/8/2013, to Los Angeles 11/29/2013 and San Francisco 12/27/2013 – see www.reachingforthemoonmovie.com for updates!