E.J. Bonilla
6 titles
Filmography
6 results

Don't Let Me Drown
(2009)Two young people are brought together by a tragedy that has touched both of their families in this refreshing and honest love story. Stefanie (Gleendilys Inoa) is a teenaged girl whose family has moved to Brooklyn shortly after the September 11 terrorist attack, which claimed the life of Stephanie's sister. Meanwhile, Lalo (E.J. Bonilla) comes from a family that struggles financially and Lalo's father works sifting through the debris at Ground Zero. Stephanie meets Lalo at a party in a city park, and while she's not sure how she feels about him at first, he's immediately infatuated with her and as he pursues her, they discover how much they have in common and they find themselves falling in love.

The House That Jack Built
(2015)Jack Maldonado (E.J. Bonilla) is a hot-blooded, ambitious young man who buys a small apartment building in the Bronx and moves his entire boisterous family in to live rent-free.
Mamitas
(2012)Follows a connection between two very different Latino high school students in East LA.

Musical Chairs
(2012)When, Mia, a dance teacher, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando, a would-be dancer who admires her from afar, persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest.

In Our Blood
(2025)Filmmaker Emily (Brittany O'Grady) teams up with cinematographer Danny (E. J. Bonilla) to shoot a documentary about reuniting with Emily's estranged mother...who then goes missing.

Four
(2013)Intimacy, emotion, and sexuality are explored between two men and their dating teenagers over the course of a single steamy Fourth of July evening.