Tag: Noé Hernández

Son of Monarchs holds its international premiere this Sundance as the winner of this year’s Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. A Mexican biologist, Mendel (Tenoch Huerta Mejía), calls New York home for the moment but he returns home upon his grandmother’s death.  Family relationships have changed since leaving for New York.  You can sense some bitterness coming from older brother Simon.  The two of them were left as orphans following their parents death in…