Drawing on accounts of the conquistador Hernando Cortes' attempt to settle Baja California, as well as 16th Century cartographies and a romance adventure novel ripe with Amazons. 'California is an Island' uses lushly shot re-enactments, animations of re-appropriated map graphics, and text to investigate the fantasies, fears and fetishes of European explorers with a post-colonial, queer lens and a bawdy sense of humor to boot.
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Melissa Merin as Queen Califa
David Martinez as Hernando Cortés
Anandi as Amazon Aphasia
Sunny Angulo as Amazon
Halima Peru as Amazon
Top Crew
Sarolta Jane Cump · Director, Writer
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