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.

Explore the 500-year history of the city of San Juan, from the move from Caparra to the different in...

Puerto Rico, the last relic of colonization in the western hemisphere, has been a dependent territor...
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 musical look at the invaluable contribution made by women to Puerto Rican music.

A close look at Puerto Rico's unique relationship with the United States.
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.
This documentary presents the passion, the talents, the history, the struggles, and the local and in...

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...

“El apagón: Aquí vive gente” is a 23-minute film that explores the socio-economic challenges in Pue...
The cultural and architectural phenomenon of the Corsican in Puerto Rico, and the influence of the C...
The inspiring account on international bodyboarding star Luz 'Loly' Grande - a young woman on a pers...
How fair is it for the government to control its citizens? Four Puerto Ricans confront their past wh...
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, hundreds of artists gathered to pay honor to the work of Puerto Rican arti...