Directing

Benjamín Doniger

Born — Died

1903-07-14 — 1988-03-06

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Known for

El secreto poster
NR

Illustrates the dilemma of a sugarcane worker who has a child out of wedlock without his wife’s knowledge.

El secreto

1958

No artwork available
NR

Aimed to educate the people, and especially those who lived in the most vulnerable areas, about important safety measures to be taken before, during, and after a storm. The film takes a decidedly modern, scientific approach in its discussion of hurricanes, and it goes to great lengths to dispel popular lore that many of the island’s under-educated inhabitants still relied on for weather predictions.

Huracán

1958

Modesta poster
5.7

The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husbands to demand their rights in a domestic context.

Modesta

1956

No artwork available
NR

A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader.

El cacique

1959

No artwork available
NR

It is the story of a young Puerto Rican government doctor who is assigned to fight schistosomiasis in a rural district and informs Puerto Ricans about the dangers posed by this common disease.

It Happened in Piedras Blancas

1960

Pedacito de tierra poster
NR

It presents of one of the major challenges faced by DivEdCo’s fieldworkers: how to convince the island’s rural farmers of the continued importance of traditional agricultural practices in the face of Puerto Rico’s rapid modernization and industrialization under Operation Bootstrap. The film encourages families to make good use of arable land by cultivating healthy and affordable crops.

Pedacito de tierra

1953

Behind the camera

El secreto poster
NR

Illustrates the dilemma of a sugarcane worker who has a child out of wedlock without his wife’s knowledge.

El secreto

1958

No artwork available
NR

Aimed to educate the people, and especially those who lived in the most vulnerable areas, about important safety measures to be taken before, during, and after a storm. The film takes a decidedly modern, scientific approach in its discussion of hurricanes, and it goes to great lengths to dispel popular lore that many of the island’s under-educated inhabitants still relied on for weather predictions.

Huracán

1958

Modesta poster
5.7

The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husbands to demand their rights in a domestic context.

Modesta

1956

Modesta poster
5.7

The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husbands to demand their rights in a domestic context.

Modesta

1956

No artwork available
NR

A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader.

El cacique

1959

No artwork available
NR

It is the story of a young Puerto Rican government doctor who is assigned to fight schistosomiasis in a rural district and informs Puerto Ricans about the dangers posed by this common disease.

It Happened in Piedras Blancas

1960

Pedacito de tierra poster
NR

It presents of one of the major challenges faced by DivEdCo’s fieldworkers: how to convince the island’s rural farmers of the continued importance of traditional agricultural practices in the face of Puerto Rico’s rapid modernization and industrialization under Operation Bootstrap. The film encourages families to make good use of arable land by cultivating healthy and affordable crops.

Pedacito de tierra

1953