‘Mad Bills to Pay’ Director Joel Alfonso Vargas Knows He’s Living an Indie Film ‘Cinderella Story’

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After his twenties took him everywhere from Los Angeles to London, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted Vargas to slow down and write a movie about his youth in the Bronx. He tells IndieWire how his life has changed (and not). How does life change after your first film gets into Sundance and emerges as one of the best-reviewed films of the festival? “I’m still broke,” Joel Alfonso Vargas said with a laugh during a recent Zoom conversation with IndieWire. But the writer/director, who made his feature

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