La Botera (“Boat Rower Girl”) is Argentine filmmaker Sabrina Blanco’s story of Tati, a teenage girl growing up in Isla Maciel, a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where she lives with a neglectful and troubled single father.
Angered when her father, a local boats man who ferries passengers across the river, decides to sell his boat, Tati sets out to learn how to row.
“The idea arose in 2014 as a result of personal concerns, and my own experiences from social activism, which led me to reflect on the difficulties of growing up for women in low-income class contexts — a topic that I felt was not too much explored,” director Blanco said of her coming of age story.
