Beyond the mall

Is there an audience for Latin American movies These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial flop He embarks on a query to find answers to his questions and relief for his despair His research leads him to a giant contraband market in the port city of Guayaquil where pirated movies from all over the world are sold for one dollar each Here he discovers a number of Ecuadorian low budget movies produced by amateurs with titles he had never heard of before from action packed productions to evangelical melodramas