A promising young boxer, a barren midwife, and a fat kid with a bike: three intersecting stories about the pursuit of happiness and it's unanticipated consequences during the economic collapse of the island of Puerto Rico.
Sep 2015
When all the residents of Tokío are evicted from their houses, two kids, Emiliano and Aurelia, are forced to end their friendship. But before that, they make a plan to save the life of a kitten that is going to be abandoned when everybody leaves the neighborhood. This seems like a very simple scheme, but it turns out to be a lesson of beauty, and humanity, that emerges from themselves as an act of rebellion in a world full of destruction.
Jun 2014
In this veterans' hospice, every patient spends their last days fighting between life and death. Veterans die alone in rooms full of memories and anecdotes about wars that they fought for a country that they barely knew.
Jan 2013
El púgil (púgil literally means a punching gladiator) is a close look at boxer Angel “Tito” Acosta from Barrio Obrero in Santurce. Though he didn’t have the cash to finish school, he shares his life passion and where it has taken him, like representing his country at the the Centroamericanos.
Apr 2013
Portrays fragments of the lives of various immigrants who live in Santurce, exploring their realities from the simple and honest point of view of a young boy as he travels through the city. The short documentary features four subjects from other Caribbean islands, South America, and Asia who have settled and fallen in love with Puerto Rico.
