Divedco

The exploitation of fisherman in Fajardo, Puerto Rico and how the laborers reached their economic independence through operative alliances.

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

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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

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").

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

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

A historic adaptation of the life of José Pablo Morales who fought against an exploitative system of payment to day laborers during the reign of the Spanish governor General Juan de la Pezuela in mid nineteenth century Puerto Rico.

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

Documentary about the annual athletics event held in Coamo, with the participation of the world's best long-distance athletes.

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

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

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

Meant to inform rural communities about the legacy of the Taínos, the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico, or Borikén, as they called the island.