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, answers the questions of who, when, and for whom have ​​films been made in Puerto Rico and the resources that are available to do it.

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. Their only request is the right to an education for their sons and daughters with special needs.

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 past and her present situation.

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 and social system that denied Angie’s ability to adopt the daughter she and Mili had raised together from birth. In doing so, these two very private people became the public faces and voices of others seeking respect and recognition of this basic fundamental core of society: La familia.

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. Their only request is the right to an education for their sons and daughters with special needs.

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. Their only request is the right to an education for their sons and daughters with special needs.

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 past and her present situation.

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 past and her present situation.

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 past and her present situation.

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 and social system that denied Angie’s ability to adopt the daughter she and Mili had raised together from birth. In doing so, these two very private people became the public faces and voices of others seeking respect and recognition of this basic fundamental core of society: La familia.