Divedco

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 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.

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

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

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.

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 persuaded to return the girl to the hospital where she is properly diagnosed and cured.

The effects of emotional neglect on an only child.

A couple in love listens to Roque Navarro and his group interpret several romantic melodies.

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

In the community of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, the main character, played by the esteemed comedian José Miguel Agrelot, buys a washing machine for his wife. However, the town has no electrical power. The movie’s depiction of the jíbaro as naive and comical created a rift among the DivEdCo personnel, especially its community organizers. It was censored by the government and shelved for many years.

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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

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

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").

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".

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

The Cordillera de Puerto Rico is presented while Gala Hernández and his group, together with Juaniquillo, perform melodies as part of a traditional Puerto Rican Christmas party.

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

Aimed to educate the people, and especially those who lived in the most vulnerable areas, about important safety measures to be taken before, during, and after a storm. The film takes a decidedly modern, scientific approach in its discussion of hurricanes, and it goes to great lengths to dispel popular lore that many of the island’s under-educated inhabitants still relied on for weather predictions.

Educates communities about tuberculosis prevention and treatment.