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- In 1994 Pedro Zamora was the first HIV-positive gay man to appear in a reality show on MTV. The audience of 'The Real World: San Francisco' identified easily with this intelligent, good-looking Latino. His presence on the show also meant that audiences in the United States and abroad had to engage with the topic of AIDS. A screen adaptation of Pedro Zamora's life: his childhood in Havana as the youngest of eight children, his immigration to the United States, his hard work as an AIDS activist, his appearance on 'The Real World' as well as the short time that was left to him subsequently.
- While the setting of her Caribbean beach village seems picture-perfect, America's life is anything but peaceful. When their daughter runs away, America's abusive lover unleashes his rage against her. Leaving everything behind, America escapes to New York City hoping for a new life. There she works as a nanny for a wealthy family and at night in a laundry. She befriends three nannies -a Mexican, a Colombian and a Dominican- and with their help and support from relatives in the Bronx, America is determined to bring her daughter back to her. But her past haunts her. America must confront her terror to protect her dream.
- Henry is an introverted young artist who, seeking to escape the banality and violence of urban life, begins to blur the distinction between fantasy and reality.
- Maria, 18 year old daughter of a single mother, decides to look for the father she has never met after her mother dies in a tragic accident. She finally finds him in a nearby town, living in what appears to be a haunted old country house in the middle of a neglected banana plantation. Amidst the peculiarities and superstitions of the Dominican country side, father and daughter will have to face the ghosts of the past that haunt them both.
- Deep inside, Manuel has always been Manuela. Amidst her worst love crisis, Manuela reinvents herself as Manuel in order to pass as the fiancé of her best friend Coca - who is pregnant from a one-night stand and must face her conservative family. Hidden identities, misunderstandings, and the tension between two friends pretending to be what they are not, stage a colorful and up-beat story. Manuela y Manuel is a visually-captivating comedy about two friends performing in the melodrama of Latin America life.
- An unusually common love story about a boy's search for inspiration to write a love letter.
- This films starts with an animated sequence that happens in the 17th century and shows how a boy was captures by a slave boat and taken to a Caribbean island, where he hides a map in a jar, before being taken to work in the sugar cane fields. Now in life action and present day, a family of four in getting ready to leave the house in order to have a picnic near a lagoon. The two friends arrive and they all drive to the Condado Lagoon in San Juan. The children start playing and one of them finds a jar with a map inside. So without their parent's permission, the four children decide to embark on an adventure through the Estuary of San Juan, thinking they will find a treasure if they follow the map. They cross a lagoon on a raft, then they find a sailboat and ask the captain to take them to the other side of the San Juan Bay. From there they walk to a marshland and cross it even though their legs are half way in the mud. Right in the middle of the marshland, they befriend a good witch, who tells them about the story behind the map and the period of time in which children were also forced into slave work. She offers to take them on her jeep to their next stop, in the lagoon on the opposite side of the city and ask her fisherman friend to take them further into their adventure on his motorboat. Finally they take four kayaks to cross another lagoon and so they get to a beautiful mangrove area. They think they have found the treasure where they dig in the mud, but only find a blue glass bottle in the midst of the mangrove trees. These scenes are inter cut with both parents trying to find them, first by notifying the police and jumping into their car and later by taking a helicopter to oversee the different bodies of water in the Estuary. Finally they see them and land in the mangrove area with the help from a ranger. All ends well and they re-unite in a surreal atmosphere, around a gorgeous glass tree. The kids have discovered that the treasure they were looking for, really lies within themselves, their joint talents and nature that they will protect forever.
- This documentary explains from different perspectives the economic, industrial, and social development of Puerto Rico from 1940 -- with the Manos a la Obra program -- to the present. Through interviews with representatives of different sectors of society: labor, industrial, political, academic, and community life, we see a broad panorama of what the country's transformation has been and what the changes and alternatives are for its development towards the future. Filming in the Dominican Republic complements this production, which also records Puerto Rico's relationship with the rest of the Caribbean through twin manufacturing plants. This inter-university and interdisciplinary documentary is ideal material for understanding the current situation facing Puerto Rico. It is an excellent stimulus for the discussion of the topic from different disciplines: history, economics, humanities, political science, and communications.