 Every man remembers how hard it is being 15 years old: Your voice is cracking, your hormones are raging, school is boring, the girl you love is a young prostitute who won t go out with you because you don t have enough cash, so you start smuggling drugs across the border in order to save enough money to buy a rooster so you can enter a cockfight and win her love. It s a tale as old as time itself. Tijuana Makes Me Happy, which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year s Slamdance Film Festival, is both a charming coming-of-age story and a celebration of the most infamous of all Mexican border towns. It s also a subtle criticism of society s lust for money and success and the lengths to which people will go to attain both. For the film s hero, Indio (Ortiz), the city s red-light district is a siren s song of erotic mystery. While just across the border - the "other side," as Tijuanans call it - lies a world of boundless economic possibility. In the middle resides Indio s loyalty to his underemployed but decent father, Jhonny (Rocha). Which to choose? Which to choose?