Alum Spotlight: Joel Vargas ’14 film shown at Sundance, MoMA

Alum Spotlight: Joel Vargas ’14 film shown at Sundance, MoMA

Filmmaker Joel Vargas ‘14 is drawn to single-take camera shots that keep all the actors in view. “It creates this effect where you think that what you’re watching on the screen is actually real and unfolding in real-time,” Vargas said.  In his latest film, “Mad Bills to Pay” (2025), Vargas tells the story of a carefree Dominican American man in the Bronx navigating life with his family and pregnant teenage girlfriend through this angle. He wante…