Mariem Pérez Riera
2021Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
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Rita Moreno, Lin-Manuel Miranda
Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of a select group who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. Over a seventy year career, she has paved the way for Hispanic-American performers by refusing to be pigeonholed into one-dimensional stereotypes.
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Cuando lo pequeño se hace grande
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Rubén Berrios, Silverio Pérez
In 1998, David Sanes, a security guard of the US Navy base in Vieques, died from a projectile from a military practice. As a consequence of that incident, the people of Vieques and Puerto Rico joined in civil disobedience in the restricted area of the Marina so that no more bombs could be dropped.
Cuando lo pequeño se hace grande
De Puerto Rico para el mundo
Mariem Pérez Riera, Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz
Ismael Miranda, Manny Manuel
On the Puerto Rican diaspora, which includes renowned artists who have converted New York, Florida, Chicago, Hawaii, Santa Cruz and Dominican Republic into their second home, but with Puerto Rico in their hearts.
De Puerto Rico para el mundo
Los dos mundos de Angelita
Jane Morrison
Mariem Pérez Riera, Delia Esther Quiñones
As experienced by 9 year old Angelita, the film portrays the hardship of migration endured by her family’s move from a small town in Puerto Rico to New York City’s Lower East Side.
The Two Worlds of Angelita
Croatto: La huella de un emigrante
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Hermes Croatto, Alejandro Croatto
Visual, emotional, musical, and historical pilgrimage of the places, moments, and circumstances that Tony Croatto traced during his life and artistic trajectory.
Croatto: La huella de un emigrante
Diez en la música
Carlos Díaz, Anaida Hernández
Mike Amadeo, Katherine Cepeda
Composed by ten stories that focus on an eclectic variety of individuals, for whom music is a way of life. The stories are directed by ten young filmmakers and explore the lives of these 10 different musicians, discovering other places, habitats, fusions, rhythms, landscapes, and lifestyles. All of these real-life characters live IN the realm of music, but not necessarily make a living OFF music.
Ten in Music