Divedco

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

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.

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.

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

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

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

The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding their wives’ advice, individuals join forces in a cooperative so they can sell their crop of tobacco leaves at fair market value.

This film did not make it past the editing process in 1953. It was released four decades later in 1993. Although specialists do not agree on the reason, it's likely that the movie's bitter tone and deviation from the dominant, uplifting DivEdCo narrative were the main reasons. Notable for its portrayal of "El Fanguito," a San Juan urban slum, and of country-city emigration at the dawn of Operation Bootstrap.

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.

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

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

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.

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").

Short musical film in which young Puerto Ricans of the Tuna of Comerío interpret melodies of the Christmas folklore of Puerto Rico.

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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

It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them.

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