Movies: Divedco

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

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 man believes all the advertising he hears....

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

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....

Presents general shots of the central mountain range of Puerto Rico....

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

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 ...

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 husband...

Posthumous homage to Sylvia Rexach, considered one of the best composers of popular Spanish music. Her daughter, Sharon Reily Rexach, plays the musical composition "Olas y Arenas"....

Zoilo Cajigas y Sotomayor is a carver of wooden models of saints. Don Zoilo is one of Puerto Rico's best-known artisans and was 96 years old at the time of the filming. The film shows the elaborate process behind his craftsmanship....

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

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

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....

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 a...

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

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 story revolves around the sickness of Dona Julia’s daughter Maria. After a bad experience at the local hospital, she seeks cures through non-traditional medical care. When the potions that she administers fail to cure her daughter, she is persuad...