Mia Perez starring in Sin Padre

September 03, 2012

Juan is a street-smart, 17 yr Honduran in the Mission District of San Francisco. When he is given an assignment to write about where he comes from, Juan is reminded of a deep pain in his life: his fatherless childhood.

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