“Sometimes love is the only answer” 
 — Ernesto Quintero

Ernesto Quintero

About the film: When one brother is diagnosed with a shattering illness, another brother is forced to face his demons as the family struggles to pick up the pieces and stay together in this powerful portrait of love and what it means to truly care for each other.​

The Quintero Family

A young Quintero family

Director/Producer Ernesto Quintero strongly believes in projects of social relevance and utilizes his skill in video and film to advocate positive change. Quintero has been documenting A Sacred Journey, a story of his brother’s fight with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) since his diagnosis in 2005. In 2013, he decided to edit this heartfelt journey locking picture in May 2019 and winning Best Film at DOCUTAH International Film Festival 2019. In addition to pointing the camera on his brother, Quintero most recently traveled the world working with Jennifer Lopez (JLo) on Dance Again a documentary featuring JLo on her first ever world tour. As second unit director, Quintero got to see the world through his lens, traveling to 40 countries in 4 months. On this same tour Ernesto, directed JLo’s ten dancers and came back to produce six episodes of A Step Away, a docu-series for NUVO TV.

Juan and Ernesto Quintero

On a personal note, I’ve watched Ernie and his family’s passion of taking care and being there for his brother Juan, over the years. It’s tough being a caregiver but once you commit to being one, life as you know it stops to exist. Then a strength you never knew you had takes over.

This is National Family Caregivers Month and there will be a Los Angeles screening of A Sacred Journey on November 23.

For more on the film, click here and on the filmmaker, Ernesto Quintero, click here. — A.O.