Movies: Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat

The life of illegal Haitians in the Dominican Republic....

Olivia & the Clouds explores love's complexities through a Rashomon effect. Olivia, haunted by a past love, hides it under her bed. She trades flowers with this ghost in exchange for comforting rain clouds. Barbara, rejected by Mauricio, escapes real...

Dive into Salman Rushdie's masterpiece, 'Midnight's Children,' a work of magical realism that deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence....

Edward Paulino details the 1937 Haitian Massacre....

Two men, Estragon and Vladimir, meet by a tree at dusk to wait for someone named "Godot." So begins a vexing cycle where the two debate when Godot will come, why they're waiting and whether they're even at the right tree....

Dig into the Attica Prison Rebellion, where prisoners took control of the facility in response to inhumane living conditions, and the violent retaking that followed....

In the machine-controlled city of Sistepolis, M225, a dissatisfied young programmer, is rescued during her commute to work by Niko, an ally of the resistance. Together, they escape to Geapolis, a free world where Gea, the leader of the resistance, gu...

Get to know the story of Radio Venceremos, an underground radio collective that fought US-backed fascism during the Salvadoran Civil War....

A look into the space that no longer we can claim our own. A farewell to the memories, view through the eyes of Dante, the observer. Today's responsible for the catharsis and misfortune of making us leave what we once called Home....

A short trip to inner-space....

Taking magic-realism as its core, the music video flows between the way of living of the first inhabitants of these South-American lands, ending with celebration in a climax of trumpet playing elephants and fireworks....

Explore Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, “Divine Comedy,” a 3-part narrative that follows Dante’s journey for salvation through Hell....

A short animated film about the bad guys....

In 1830, David Walker sewed a pamphlet into the lining of a coat. The volume was thin enough to be hidden, but its content was far from insubstantial. At the time, many members of the US government considered this pamphlet to be one of the most dange...

Much science fiction features white male heroes who blast aliens or become saviors of brown people. Octavia E. Butler knew she could tell a better story. She built stunning worlds rife with diverse characters, and brought nuance and depth to the repr...

Sarah Rosenthal dives into the Abstract Expressionist movement in hopes of answering that question....

Learn about the life and tragic death of gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay public official....

Angela Koine Flynn describes the science of skin color....

Discover history's first empire: Sumer, located in Mesopotamia, which built the world's first cities and created the first writing system....

A journey to the childhood memories. Animated with nostalgia and imagination. It tells the events that happened one day to the kids in a small Dominican neighborhood....