7th Annual International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival - One Day Access Passes 11/10

Mount Sinai Leo C Stern center

12PM - 1PM

Now

Director - Snidgh Kapoor

Anton Y El Eco

Who cares About What

 A film about what we choose to prioritize in life.

Producers: Zulivet Díaz, Caridad del Valle and Yaitza Rivera
Director: Yaitza Rivera
Writer: Yaitza Rivera
Director of Photography: Chris Tharp
Editor: Sebastian García
Actresses: Zulivet Díaz, Caridad del Valle and Ella Jane Rossman

The Language of Ball

The Language of Ball is seen through the eyes of Ahmed,
a young teenager who recently arrived to New York City from Yemen
and whose only sense of security and comfort is basketball.
One day during his morning routine alone on the court,
he’s approached by a Latino teenager, Justin, who encourages a one-on-one game.
This leads to Justin taking Ahmed on an adventure through various neighborhoods
and cultures playing pick up basketball throughout the city.

Director: Ramón Rodríguez
Writer: Ramón Rodríguez
Producer: Ramón Rodríguez, Karina Silva
Cast: Eshan Bay, Justin Ahedo
Director of Photography: Karina Silva
Editor: Ramón Rodríguez

Grapes

After an evening of drinking and smoking, Ray stumbles home
with the intent to snooze him-self sober. However, his Grandmother intercepts him
and seizes this opportunity to give him a much-unwanted Spanish lesson.
It’s the battle of the generations!
The ungrateful pothead, and the vulgar Abuela, face off in ‘Grapes’.

Producer: Barbie Estevez Whittaker, Deangelo Williams, Ramon Pesante
Director: Ramon Pesante
Writer: Ramon Pesante
Director of Photography: Lionel T Djaowe
Editor: Burton Lewis JR, Lionel T Djaowe
Lead Actors: Andrew Santiago, Amneris Morales, Noel B Austin

Till We Age

A film about what we choose to priortize in life

Director: Yaitza Rivera
Producers: Zulivet Díaz, Caridad del Valle and Yaitza Rivera
Writer: Yaitza Rivera
Director of Photography: Chris Tharp
Editor: Sebastian García
Actresses: Zulivet Díaz, Caridad del Valle and Ella Jane Rossman

1PM - 2:30PM

Colonization is Extinction
Colonization is Extinction” focuses on the gentrification of the island of Puerto Rico.
From forced sterilization, to active bombs littered across Vieques,
this film takes a hard look at the US’ role in the theft of the island,
and what our people need to do to take it back
Producer: Walter Alomar
Director: Walter Alomar
Writer: Jessica Alomar
Lead Actors: Edgar Hernandez
Assistant Producer: Jessica Alomar

3PM - 4:30PM

Jurakán: Nation in Resistance

Director - Gonzalo Mazzini

4:45PM - 5:45PM

Uno a Uno (One on One)

Executive Producer: Soraya Sesto*
Producers: Adrián E. Schwarz*& Raisa Bonnet*
Associate Producers: Lorna Cruz* & Julio Sanz de la Maza
Cinematographers: Adrian E. Scwarz* & Raisa Bonnet*
Director: Noel Quiñones*
Writers: Noel Quiñones* & Juan Agustín Marquez*


The Journey

The Journey is about taking a look into Professor Gabriela Torres childhood
being raised in Guatemala during the time of the Guatemalan Civil War (1960 – 1996). Gabriela’s parents were civil rights lawyers trying to protect
Guatemalan citizens rights to assembly and protest.
So during Gabriela’s childhood, she faced many obstacles
due to her parents work and the climate of Guatemala.

Producer/Director/Editor/Director of Photography: *Dominick Torres

Capoeira: Live The Game

6PM - 8PM

January

Ofelia receives a call from her ex-wife, Maité, announcing she’s in labor.
On their way to the hospital, they resume the unfinished issues of their past
and deal with the uncertainties of motherhood.
 
Producer: Raúl Abner Samrah
Director: Carlos Carrero Sepúlveda
Writer: Carlos Carrero Sepúlveda
Director of Photography: Edward Andrés
Editor: Alejandro Orengo
Lead Actors: Ada Rodríguez Bermúdez* & Lilian Delgado

Extra Terrestrials

Teresa is a vegetarian and a successful astrophysicist living with her fiancé, 

Daniela in the Canary Islands. After years of auto-exile, she goes back to her rural home
in Puerto Rico to invite her family to her wedding.

The Díaz family is a conservative clan that owns a Poultry Processing Plant.
Unwilling to reveal their secrets, no one in the family is who they say they are,
which is why Teresa opts for lying. After a series of sabotages force the family business
to shut down, Daniela, tired of waiting on Teresa, decides to travel to
Puerto Rico to meet her new family.

On the other end, the Díaz family is collapsing like a supernova,
provoking a chain reaction that reveals who and what they really are: extraterrestrials.

 
Producer: Pulsar Films
 
Director: Carla Cavina
 
Writer: Carla Cavina
 
Director of Photography: Pedro Juan López
 
Editor: Diego Cardier
 
Lead Actors :
Sunshine Logroño
Marisé Álvarez
Elba Escobar
Prakriti Maduro
 
Music: Omar Silva

NYU Cantor Film Center

7:30PM - 9PM

Sol De Medinoche

Midnight Sun

Manolo(Pedro Capó) un detective privado especializado

en casos de adulterio, espía, fotografía y graba el affair

de unos antiguos amigos, Carlos y Migdalia.