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Nuestra Historia, A Series of Documentary Shorts

The International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival presents Nuestra Historias, a series of documentary shorts by several talented filmmakers who tell four very different stories from the web of Puerto Rican history and culture.

 

Miguel Enriquez

Miguel Enriquez explores the rise and fall of a Puerto Rican shoemaker that became the most important privateer of the Caribbean in the 18th century.

 

Writer, Director, Editor: Raúl Ríos-Díaz

Music: Raymond Torres-Santos

Director of Photography: Raúl Ríos-Díaz

Narrator: Steve Ember

Interviewees: 

·      Osiris Delgado

·      Luis González-Vales

·      Francisco Moscoso

·      Jalil Sued Badillo

 

Making the Impossible Possible: The Stories of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College

In 1969 Puerto Rican students forged a powerful alliance and changed the face of higher education with the founding of one of the first Puerto Rican Studies departments in the nation.

 

Producer: Gisely Colón López, Tami Gold, Pam Sporn

Directors: Tami Gold, Pam Sporn

Writer: Gisely Colón López

Director of Photography: Tami Gold

Editors: Sonia González-Martínez, Pam Sporn

 

 

MUS-A

The history of a municipal band in Puerto Rico with more than 100 years of service to the communities is the focus of this short documentary. MUS-A examines the role of women in the municipal band, self-management strategies, and the relationship between music and brain functions.

 

Producer: Sonia Edith Rivera Lebrón

Director: Sonia Edith Rivera Lebrón

Writer: Sonia Edith Rivera Lebrón

Director of Photography: Gianfranco Gaglione

Editor: Olga Vicente Nieves

Lead Actors: Edwin Santiago García, Wilfredo Javier Vega Lozada, and Judith Bernard Bermúdez

 

SEEDS OF AN UNCERTAIN LAND

With dirt under their nails, dedication, science, and indigenous knowledge, young Puerto Rican farmers return to their ancestral lands to bring food security to their struggling communities after hurricane Maria,

 

Producer: Tamara Ramos Crispino, John Hernandez, Jake Price

Director: Jake Price

Writer: Aris Mejías, Jake Price

Director of Photography: Jake Price

Editor: Jake Price

Lead Actor(s)  Suley Angélica, Yaritza López, Felix Melendez, Ian Pagan-Roig 

Score: Yaitza Lopez

 

 

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