A look at Puerto Rico and its cinema through films, documentaries, and commercials from the early twentieth century to the emerging cinema of today. Visual and narrative strategies portray fragments of Puerto Rico's general history and, in turn, answers the questions of who, when, and for whom have films been made in Puerto Rico and the resources that are available to do it.

The Hurricane Maria represented a historic event for the island of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican spi...

Artificial intelligence is taking on different roles in the filmmaking space. The questions we must ...
Documentary on the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 1950s and '60s.

Hurricane María abated, the news crews packed up and left Puerto Rico, and the interest of the inter...

A close look at Puerto Rico's unique relationship with the United States.

Combines animation, documentary footage, and hand-painted film as well as slide projections, a paint...
Experimental film about rhythm as corporal expression of a culture. Presents various choreographies ...

“El apagón: Aquí vive gente” is a 23-minute film that explores the socio-economic challenges in Pue...

Strong Puerto Rican women forced to flee the island after Hurricane Maria have bonded like family in...
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, hundreds of artists gathered to pay honor to the work of Puerto Rican arti...
Carmen accompanies a group of women who must travel from the island of Vieques to San Juan, capital ...
Through dramatization and interviews with her colleagues, this film captures the life and work of fa...

The story of the basketball players that represented Puerto Rico at the San Juan's 1979 Pan Am Games...
A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.

Isla chatarra describes the phenomenon of the ubiquity of automobiles in Puerto Rico. The island mea...
Documentary about how the arrival of the railway industry impacted Puerto Rican culture economically...

The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during th...

Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a Latinx Playwrights Circle ...