Amílcar Tirado
1922 - 2004
El gallo pelón
Amílcar Tirado
José Miguel Agrelot, Frank Arredondo
In the community of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, the main character, played by the esteemed comedian José Miguel Agrelot, buys a washing machine for his wife. However, the town has no electrical power. The movie’s depiction of the jíbaro as naive and comical created a rift among the DivEdCo personnel, especially its community organizers. It was censored by the government and shelved for many years.
El gallo pelón
El santero
Amílcar Tirado
Antonio Torres Martinó, Zoilo Cajigas y Sotomayor
Zoilo Cajigas y Sotomayor is a carver of wooden models of saints. Don Zoilo is one of Puerto Rico's best-known artisans and was 96 years old at the time of the filming. The film shows the elaborate process behind his craftsmanship.
El santero
La noche de don Manuel
Amílcar Tirado
José de San Antón, Braulio Castillo
A generational conflict is reflected in the old-fashioned ideas of the landowner, who imposes himself as a dominant figure in the political activity of the rural communities of Puerto Rico.
Don Manuel's Night
La plena
Amílcar Tirado
Antonio Torres Martinó
One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal areas, and the fusion of popular and refined genres in presentations by Ballets de San Juan of the ballet-plena by Amaury Veray, "Cuando las mujeres" ("When the Women").
La plena
