The first trailer for Sundance NEXT Audience Award winner, “I Carry You With Me” teases a heartbreaking love story across borders and an innovative format.

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In the trailer for Heidi Ewing‘s film, Iván (Armando Espitia) and Gerardo (Christian Vazquez) fall in love after a chance meeting in Mexico in the mid-90s, but they quickly realize that a love story like theirs isn’t commonplace, and not accepted by everyone.

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PARK CITY – There is a beautiful love story at the center of “I Carry You With Me (Te Llevo Conmigo)” which debuted Sunday at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. It’s not only moving, but it’s remarkably based on the lives of two real-life people.  Heidi Ewing, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker for the documentary “Jesus Camp,” makes her narrative debut chronicling this unique story, a tale that could have been a gay romance for the ages.  Instead, Ewing makes a creative decision in the final act of the picture which simply sucks all the air out of the room.  It’s almost unbelievable how wrong that decision turned out to be and I’m flummoxed to recall any other film that made such a wrong turn.

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