LA BODEGA SOLD DREAMS: SHORTS 1968-1980
dirs. Various
approx. 90 mins.
In English and Spanish with English subtitles.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 - 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 - 10 PM

Bracketed by two short TV documentaries - presumably made to cash in on New York City's thriving Puerto Rican community in the 60s and 70s - this program looks at depictions of both Puerto Rican and Nuyorican culture regarding the island's de facto status as an outpost of American imperialism. The material screened will include interviews with Ruben Berrios, leader of the Independence party, Rafael Hernández Colón, governor candidate for the Popular Democratic Party, and Carlos Romero Barceló, governor of the islands, known murderer, and darling of the Pro-Statehood party, the PNP. (Today, the PNP is the same political party incriminated in the recent upheavals over the #rickygate, #rickyrenuncia, #wandarenuncia, etcetera.)

From LA BODEGA SOLD DREAMS.