Mosquita y Mari is a 2012 coming-of-age film written and directed by Aurora Guerrero and starring Fenessa Pineda and Venecia Troncoso.

As Yolanda and Mari's feelings reach new depths, their inability to put words to their emotions leads to a web of unspoken jealousy.

Fenessa Pineda as Yolanda Olveros (nicknamed Mosquita) Venecia Troncoso as Mari Rodriguez Joaquín Garrido as Mr. Olveros Laura Pataleno as Mrs. Olveros Dulce Maria Solis as Mrs. Rodriguez Marisela Uscanga as Vicky Melissa Uscanga as Vero Omar Leyva as Mr. Galvez Armando Cosio as Don Pedro The concept for Mosquita y Mari started out as a series of short stories about two girls growing up together and driven by an "unspoken attraction" to each other, heavily based on a friendship she had experienced in her youth, which Guerrero wrote in film school for an exercise about "writing what you know".

[5] Guerrero worked with Communities for a Better Environment to ensure that the production of Mosquita y Mari would be beneficial to Huntington Park, where it was set and filmed.

[1] Guerrero searched SoundCloud and Remezcla for recent music by Latino artists for the soundtrack, as well as working with composer Ryan Beveridge.

She was particularly concerned with creating a new, fresh soundtrack that avoided overused clichés common in American films featuring Latino characters, such as strumming guitars.

[1][4][8] The New York Times praised Mosquita y Mari as "an unassuming indie jewel" that "resists all of the clichés that its story of the fraught friendship between two 15-year-old girls invites.