Movies: Teresa Previdi

A look at Puerto Rico and its cinema through films, documentaries, and commercials from the early twentieth century to the emerging cinema of today. Visual and narrative strategies portray fragments of Puerto Rico's general history and, in turn, answ...

La otra educación (The Other Education) is about the class action suit Rosa Lydia Velez vs the Department of Education, and serves as the storyline to document 30 years of struggles that the families of disabled children in Puerto Rico have suffered....

Ser Familia tell the story of two women who exposed their private lives to public scrutiny in their struggle for recognition of the validity of their family on the island of Puerto Rico. The two women, Mili Vélez and Angie Acosta, confronted a legal ...

A documentary short on the effects of a contaminated 3.5-mile long natural tidal channel located in the heart of the San Juan National Estuary....

Inspired by Luis Rafael Sánchez's play of the same name, the film is structured on the reminiscences of the protagonist, Angela, as she wakes up and is mortified by her immediate surroundings. Her reminiscences are nonlinear and oscillate between her...