- Features the life of feminist Luisa Capetillo in late 19th and early 20th century Puerto Rico.
- This docudrama is about the first feminist in Puerto Rico in the beginning of the 20st century and who is know for having worn pants. Shew was born in 1879 in Arecibo, her parents were inspired by the liberal ideas of French libertarianism. She was an anarchist, a journalist, playwright for workers' theater pieces; she was reader in tobacco factories and she believed in free love, and being vegetarian and in doing exercise. She travelled to New York to organize the Latino workers and then went to Ybor City to be the only female reader a tobacco factory and then went to Cuba. She was deported because she was organizing the workers buy the excuse was her use of pants. Back in Puerto Rico, she went to organize the agriculture workers in Vieques and later died at age 48 in San Juan due to tuberculosis. This docudrama is losely based on the book "Luisa Capetillo, history of a prohibited woman" by Norma Valle Ferrer. The docudrama starts with Luisa Capetillo in her older days writing her biography and then there is a montage of photos that show the context of Puerto Rico in the beginning of the 20th century, its fields and small towns, the work people performed, and also the poverty of most of them. Re-enactments take us first to her childhood to show that she learned to read and write at home because girls not allowed to attend school; then she is an adolescent and in love with a man from the upper class and his family is in opposition of that love. They want him to marry a rich woman, but Luisa believes in tru love and not in social conventions and has two children with him. He ultimately abandons her and then her tru transformation begins. In a re-encantment she cuts her hair, puts on trousers and goes out to organize the workers and then become a reader in a tobacco factory where the workers were the ones who paid her just because they could not read but wanted to be informed of the daily news as well as know the anarchist writers such as Bakunin, Zola and also Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. In another re-enactment Luisa is traveling through the island organizing the workers, on foot visiting sugar cane mills, and conversing with fellow organizers. Sometime later she decided to travel to New York to be part of the organization of the workers movement. Through stock footage we convey the period and through her VO she recounts what that experience was like. Then comes the sequence in Florida and Cuba, also told through her and footage from both places. Back in Puerto Rico and through another re-enactment she conveys the idea of her book being published titled "My opinion on liberties, rights and duties of women". In another scene Luisa exits a gathering and meets with fellow Mercedes Sola, a feminist of the middle class and they share ideas about women's roles and duties as well as about the right they want in order to vote. Actually later Luisa published her fourth book titled "The Influence of Modern Ideas". This docudrama is ultimately a call for social justice, equality and liberty.
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By what name was Luisa Capetillo: Pasión de justicia (1995) officially released in Canada in English?
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