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www.ambiente.us DECEMBER | DICIEMBRE 2008

Tatiana Suarez-Pico|Accidents At Home And How They Happen

Accidents At Home And How They Happen
recently opened at the 15th Annual Chicago
Underground Film Festival & Filmmakers Summit
to rave reviews, and hopes for a limited release
nationwide.

Starring Tatiana Suarez-Pico, a New York stage
actress who plays the lead role of Stella, likened
the result to Little Miss Sunshine: "It's sad but also
hilarious", according to the Columbus Dispatch.

Tatiana is a New York-based actress with writing
aspirations. She has a business degree in
Marketing and an MFA in acting. Tatiana
provides the lovely Spanish translations for the
comic Bodega Ave, found right here in
Ambiente, is a story contributor, and has many
jobs to support her love of acting, which has
made her poor in the pocket but not in spirit…
which is where it counts the most.

Accidents... This story begins with an ending.
A woman is dead. Susana Villasenor, a
29-year-old single scientist living in a central
Ohio suburb has killed herself. Susana had
suicidal tendencies; this last successful act is
one in a series of desperate attempts. Susana's
lab work improved the design of artificial limbs.
Her research was extensive and personal. Stella, Susana's twin sister, is a very successful corporate
professional working in the city. She is utterly in control of her environment and aspiring upward although
emotionally stunted and vacant. Stella is trying to function as an adult in spite of a lingering and unresolved
child-hood trauma; she was kidnapped as a young girl and held by her captor for four years. As Stella's
corporate professionalism begins to weaken under the pressure of her grief, she slowly and compulsively
takes up where Susana left off. Stella eventually begins attending meetings for people who have survived
multiple suicide attempts--an array of broken and comic individuals who unknowingly help her confront her
loss and sorrow. For Stella, her sister is lost. She is loss and history. Her recovery is handicapped. She is
surrounded by trauma, drifting from no sympathy to pure empathy. Stella accidentally crashes her car into a
tree which to on-lookers, seems like a failed suicide attempt. In the end, Stella remains a bad driver, though
now she feels the company of those who reflect and share her emotion. Can she be healed? Can Anyone?

Upcoming screenings will be advertised at:
www.AccidentsAtHome.com
and
www.TatianaSuarezPico.com

for more on the film : www.cuff.org
For more on Tatiana: bodega Ave

About the film Cast & Crew
director Jennifer Reeder
writer Jennifer Reeder
cinematographer Mike Olenick
Cast Tatiana Suarez Pico

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