Divedco

Adapted from Mexico's "The Forgotten Village". It deals with the fight that develops from the superstitious and ignorant interpretation of a problem and its real, scientific solution.

A generational conflict is reflected in the old-fashioned ideas of the landowner, who imposes himself as a dominant figure in the political activity of the rural communities of Puerto Rico.

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

It tells the story of a slave rebellion on a sugar plantation in the days leading up to the official abolition of slavery on the island on March 22, 1873.

The location of the dividing line between two farms causes friction between two families.

A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league.

A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor.

Field workers in Puerto Rico want to have a night school.

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

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

The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.

A young boy becomes intrigued by one of the characters in his village's celebration of its patron saint.

Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. 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.

Educational documentary which extols the different forms of labor, and its importance to Puerto Rico’s progress.

One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal areas, and the fusion of popular and refined genres in presentations by Ballets de San Juan of the ballet-plena by Amaury Veray, "Cuando las mujeres" ("When the Women").

In the community of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, the main character, played by the esteemed comedian José Miguel Agrelot, buys a washing machine for his wife. However, the town has no electrical power. The movie’s depiction of the jíbaro as naive and comical created a rift among the DivEdCo personnel, especially its community organizers. It was censored by the government and shelved for many years.

A family relationship drama about a strict father who wants to control his son, who in turn leaves his father's house and moves to the city.

Recreates the town meetings which were a staple of the DivEdCo project. True-life residents debate community priorities, in this case the advisability of building parks and roads before dealing with the severe health issues caused by the town’s water supply. Afflicted by personal tragedy, Ignacio, the common man, finds the courage to challenge the reigning leadership.

The film recreates the miracle of the birth of Jesus in a Puerto Rican field. It begins with the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph, the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the Three Kings.

A cautionary film about what were thought to be rural superstitions and practices in Puerto Rico.