Sonia Fritz

Directing

Sonia Fritz

Born

1953-11-26 (72)

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Sonia Fritz Macías (Mexico City, November 26, 1953) is a Mexican filmmaker based in Puerto Rico. In her works, she addresses the issue of gender, identity, history and culture in Puerto Rico and migration.

Known for

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Discusses the mass immigration to the United States from the Dominican Republic due to the poor economic conditions there. Includes interviews with people, primarily women, who have emigrated and gives details on the hardships the travelers endure.

Sueños atrapados

1994

Visa para un sueño poster
4.0

Documentary on the exodus of the Dominican illiterate laborers to Puerto Rico during the late 1980's to 1990. Focuses on the plight of Dominican women who, faced with no economic opportunities in Santo Domingo, embark in an illegal boat trip to Puerto Rico.

Visa para un sueño

1990

America poster
4.8

América, a 30-year-old mother who lives in a remote Caribbean village, suffers the hardest hit when her lover takes her daughter from her. Fury and fear push her to run away. In her new life as a nanny in New York City, with support from relatives and other latinas, América finds comfort and hope. When she dares to dream of a life without violence, reality hunts her down. Will she survive to tell her story?

America

2011

No artwork available
NR

Traces the themes and characteristics present in the plastic arts of Puerto Rico, which represent a search for the Puerto Rican identity.

Puerto Rico: arte e identidad

1991

No artwork available
3.5

Focuses on children and young adults from disadvantaged communities that learn to play an instrument. Through this learning process, they overcome limitations and assert themselves. This program serves as a prevention tool. The stories of these kids will take us on their personal journey and everyday struggle while they prepare for the big concert.

Music 100x35, Notes of a Transformation

2013

Las caras lindas de Tite Curet poster
10.0

Documents the life and musical production of Puerto Rican music composer, Tite Curet Alonso. Includes Tite Curet's last interview before his death.

Las caras lindas de Tite Curet

2002

Film credits

Behind the camera

No artwork available
NR

Discusses the mass immigration to the United States from the Dominican Republic due to the poor economic conditions there. Includes interviews with people, primarily women, who have emigrated and gives details on the hardships the travelers endure.

Sueños atrapados

1994

Visa para un sueño poster
4.0

Documentary on the exodus of the Dominican illiterate laborers to Puerto Rico during the late 1980's to 1990. Focuses on the plight of Dominican women who, faced with no economic opportunities in Santo Domingo, embark in an illegal boat trip to Puerto Rico.

Visa para un sueño

1990

Visa para un sueño poster
4.0

Documentary on the exodus of the Dominican illiterate laborers to Puerto Rico during the late 1980's to 1990. Focuses on the plight of Dominican women who, faced with no economic opportunities in Santo Domingo, embark in an illegal boat trip to Puerto Rico.

Visa para un sueño

1990

America poster
4.8

América, a 30-year-old mother who lives in a remote Caribbean village, suffers the hardest hit when her lover takes her daughter from her. Fury and fear push her to run away. In her new life as a nanny in New York City, with support from relatives and other latinas, América finds comfort and hope. When she dares to dream of a life without violence, reality hunts her down. Will she survive to tell her story?

America

2011

America poster
4.8

América, a 30-year-old mother who lives in a remote Caribbean village, suffers the hardest hit when her lover takes her daughter from her. Fury and fear push her to run away. In her new life as a nanny in New York City, with support from relatives and other latinas, América finds comfort and hope. When she dares to dream of a life without violence, reality hunts her down. Will she survive to tell her story?

America

2011

No artwork available
NR

Traces the themes and characteristics present in the plastic arts of Puerto Rico, which represent a search for the Puerto Rican identity.

Puerto Rico: arte e identidad

1991

No artwork available
NR

Traces the themes and characteristics present in the plastic arts of Puerto Rico, which represent a search for the Puerto Rican identity.

Puerto Rico: arte e identidad

1991

No artwork available
NR

Traces the themes and characteristics present in the plastic arts of Puerto Rico, which represent a search for the Puerto Rican identity.

Puerto Rico: arte e identidad

1991

No artwork available
3.5

Focuses on children and young adults from disadvantaged communities that learn to play an instrument. Through this learning process, they overcome limitations and assert themselves. This program serves as a prevention tool. The stories of these kids will take us on their personal journey and everyday struggle while they prepare for the big concert.

Music 100x35, Notes of a Transformation

2013

No artwork available
3.5

Focuses on children and young adults from disadvantaged communities that learn to play an instrument. Through this learning process, they overcome limitations and assert themselves. This program serves as a prevention tool. The stories of these kids will take us on their personal journey and everyday struggle while they prepare for the big concert.

Music 100x35, Notes of a Transformation

2013

Las caras lindas de Tite Curet poster
10.0

Documents the life and musical production of Puerto Rican music composer, Tite Curet Alonso. Includes Tite Curet's last interview before his death.

Las caras lindas de Tite Curet

2002

Yalaltecas poster
10.0

The documentary captures the struggle of the Yalatecas Women’s Union, in a remote Zapotec indigenous community, in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. It recreates the seizure of the Municipal Palace that led to the end of the cacicazgo (ruling of the caciques), the organization of the Union, and achievements such as the cooperative of artisans, the communal mill and the support for the Castilianization Center and musical instruments for the band that is the heart of community.

Yalaltecas

1984

Mona: tesoro del Caribe poster
NR

Mona is a beautiful island, distant, mythical, mysterious, full of caves and legends. It is also unknown. This documentary reveals the history and the fauna of Mona Island, while also audiovisually preserving it.

Mona: tesoro del Caribe

2017

15 Faros de Puerto Rico poster
9.0

Each one of the 15 lighthouses around the island of Puerto Rico tells the story of the lighthouse keepers, wives or daughters that lived in them. Additional testimonies by architects, historians, biologists and fishermen take us on a trip of beauty, hope, perseverance around them, as we witness the magnificence of its structures and its magical surroundings. Some lighthouses are active, some have been restored, others have been abandoned but all have a unique story to tell.

15 Faros de Puerto Rico

2015

No artwork available
NR

Captures the Promesa de Reyes (Holy Kings' promise) of various families on the island, in Las Marías, Patillas, Aguadilla, Vieques, and Dorado, as well as the famous procession of Juana Díaz on January 5. It also includes the elaboration of the famous Holy Saints by Domingo Orta, an artisan from Ponce who, together with his family, produces the well-known figures.

Los Santos Reyes Magos

1997

No artwork available
NR

Captures the Promesa de Reyes (Holy Kings' promise) of various families on the island, in Las Marías, Patillas, Aguadilla, Vieques, and Dorado, as well as the famous procession of Juana Díaz on January 5. It also includes the elaboration of the famous Holy Saints by Domingo Orta, an artisan from Ponce who, together with his family, produces the well-known figures.

Los Santos Reyes Magos

1997

No artwork available
NR

Captures the Promesa de Reyes (Holy Kings' promise) of various families on the island, in Las Marías, Patillas, Aguadilla, Vieques, and Dorado, as well as the famous procession of Juana Díaz on January 5. It also includes the elaboration of the famous Holy Saints by Domingo Orta, an artisan from Ponce who, together with his family, produces the well-known figures.

Los Santos Reyes Magos

1997

No artwork available
6.0

The life and work of Puerto Rican painter and print-maker Myrna Báez are explored in this documentary.

Myrna Báez: Los espejos del silencio

1989

No artwork available
6.0

The life and work of Puerto Rican painter and print-maker Myrna Báez are explored in this documentary.

Myrna Báez: Los espejos del silencio

1989

No artwork available
NR

Dummy overview.

Voces de pasión

2023

No artwork available
NR

Dummy overview.

Voces de pasión

2023

Foreigners in Their Own Land poster
NR

Survey the history and people from 1565-1880, as the first Spanish explorers enter North America, the U.S. expands into territories in the Southwest that had been home to Native Americans and English and Spanish colonies, and as the Mexican-American War strips Mexico of half its territories by 1848.

Foreigners in Their Own Land

2013

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NR

Guided by a map, four children decide to embark on a fascinating adventure to find a magical treasure. While their parents search for them, the children find the meaning and magic of the nature they promise to protect and care.

Las estrellas del estuario

2009

El beso que me diste poster
9.0

A TV reporter from Puerto Rico loses her son after her ex-husband Armando kidnaps him and takes him to the States. Angela must team up with a lawyer to find and rescue the child.

El beso que me diste

2000

El beso que me diste poster
9.0

A TV reporter from Puerto Rico loses her son after her ex-husband Armando kidnaps him and takes him to the States. Angela must team up with a lawyer to find and rescue the child.

El beso que me diste

2000

No artwork available
9.0

The daily life of a couple in a coastal town in Puerto Rico changes upon the arrival of an old friend whom they believed had perished in Vietnam. At the same time, a writer moves into the town and upsets everyone’s routine.

Una historia común

2004

Miente poster
4.5

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.

Miente

2009

After the Boats Left poster
9.0

New documentary by Mexican filmmaker Sonia Fritz about a forgotten town in Puerto Rico.

After the Boats Left

2022

After the Boats Left poster
9.0

New documentary by Mexican filmmaker Sonia Fritz about a forgotten town in Puerto Rico.

After the Boats Left

2022

No artwork available
9.0

Features the life of feminist Luisa Capetillo in late 19th and early 20th century Puerto Rico.

Luisa Capetillo: pasión de justicia

1993

Los Coquíes de Puerto Rico poster
NR

The documentary follows a team of scientists that are conducting research on the Puerto Rican coquí — a small, native frog — across the island's varied regions.

Los Coquíes de Puerto Rico

2026

No artwork available
NR

The magical friendship between a deaf girl and a dragon turtle that helps her overcome her limitations and gain the community’s and other children’s acceptance. It is based on the novel "La sirenita sin voz" (The Mermaid Without A Voice) by Kalman Barsy.

Marina's Secret World

2008

Anacrusa poster
6.2

The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.

Anacrusa

1979

No artwork available
NR

Recreates in an artistic way the emotions human beings face before death. It is achieved using a selection of artistic work creations; painting, music, and literature that express pain, perplexity, mystery, meaning, and the inevitability of death.

Hay golpes en la vida

2001

No artwork available
NR

Documents the history of the Latinization of New York as a result of the increasing Puerto Rican and Mexican population. It compares the achievements of the Puerto Rican community in political, cultural, and economic terms with the obstacles currently faced by Mexican immigrants. In addition, it analyzes the spaces shared by these communities and the sectors where there are tensions.

Buscando a América

2002

No artwork available
NR

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.

El puente sobre el Caribe

1994

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NR

Drama that includes recreated fragments of María de las Mercedes Barbudo, a Puerto Rican independence activist who was imprisoned by Governor Miguel de la Torre and banished from the island to which she was never able to return.

Camino sin Retorno: El destierro de María de las Mercedes Barbudo

1996

No artwork available
NR

Mireya Ramos, founder of Mariachi Flor de Toloache is the singer, violinist and arranger with Shea Fiol, vocalist and vihuela player. We follow their performances in NYC, California and India, while challenging the male music world.

Mariachis with Pants

2020