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Maria Full

of Grace
Cinematographer:

Jim Denault
Director: Joshua Marston
The drama Maria Full

of
wrenching story of a
17-year-old Colombian girl (played
by Catalina Sandino Moreno) who
Grace tells the

tries to alter her dire financial situa¬
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by joining the ranks of drug

mules, people who smuggle illegal

drugs

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by

them.

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