Movies: Karen Rossi Coughlin

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...

Gloria and Diana don’t have the best mother-daughter relationship. Diana fantasizes reactions that show her true feelings towards her mom. During one of her weekly visits to the supermarket, Diana loses her mom and finds what she really feels....

A young Puerto Rican activist confronts the island's persistent crisis of food insecurity....

Isla chatarra describes the phenomenon of the ubiquity of automobiles in Puerto Rico. The island measures slightly less than 9,000 square kilometers, but has 25,000 kilometers of paved road, one of the highest proportions in the planet. Puerto Rico i...

On Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos and her poem with the same name....

On Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos and her poem with the same name....

A short documentary that shows the subtle poetics of the storytellers' souls, and the reconstruction of the roof of their house where many individual and shared memories dwell. It is a metaphorical piece and literally dialogues about the spiritual in...

The daily life of Juan, Rushian and Ivianyd, three Puerto Rican teenagers, is challenged when they decide to participate in a series of workshops to discover their aspirations and overcome personal limitations. The support of new mentors provokes awa...

Examines the work of the DanzÉ group, by DanzActiva, in which the dancer Paulette Beauchamp, through an artistic proposal, directs a group of people with Down Syndrome in bomba dance shows. The documentary presents the experiences of these dancers, t...