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First anti-slavery film in Puerto Rico. Part of the DIVEDCO film catalogue. Belén: Michel Alexis: Drama: DIVEDCO: Huellas: Rolando Barrera: Tony Rigus, Raúl Carbonell Jr. Los que no se rinden: Rolando Barrera: Tres puertorriqueñas y un deseo: José de San Antón, René Martínez, José A. Ferrara
America is a 2011 Puerto Rican drama film directed by Sonia Fritz based on a published fiction novel El Sueño de America (1996) by Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago. The film was selected as the Puerto Rican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but was disqualified because of a rule change.
The fugitive) is a 2007 Puerto Rican film. It follows the lives of two African slaves brought to Puerto Rico during the era of slavery in the 19th century. It is based on the life of Marcos Xiorro who conspired and planned a slave revolt in 1821. [1] [2]
In 1859, Ruiz Belvis returned to Puerto Rico and befriended Ramón Emeterio Betances, joining "The Secret Abolitionist Society" founded by Betances. The society baptized and emancipated thousands of black slave children. The event, which was known as "aguas de libertad" (waters of liberty), was carried out at the Cathedral of Mayagüez. [4]
Descendants of former Puerto Rican slaves in 1898, the year the United States invaded Puerto Rico. Ramón Power y Giralt was a Puerto Rican naval hero, a captain in the Spanish navy who had risen to become president of the Spanish Courts. Power Y Giralt was among the delegates who proposed that slavery be abolished in Puerto Rico.
In the 19th century, slavery in Puerto Rico was increased, as the Spanish, facing economic decline with the loss of all of its colonial territories in the Americas aside from Cuba and Puerto Rico, established and expanded sugar cane production in the island. Since 1789, slaves in Puerto Rico were allowed to earn or buy their freedom.
In 2004 Telemaco filmed El Cimarrón, a movie about slavery in 19th century Puerto Rico. He plays the role of Marcos Xiorro, a slave who planned a slave uprising in 1821. The movie was released in early 2007. In 2007 he also played the 16th century Peruvian saint St. Martin de Porres in the movie Fray Martin de Porres.
This is a partial List of films set in Puerto Rico; either the movie's plot includes that island, the movie has been filmed there, or both.Certain movies that are supposed to be set in Cuba are filmed in Puerto Rico because of the U.S. embargo and similarities between both islands.