De Divedco Studios

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...

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

Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization...

An artistic short on the floral beauty of Puerto Rico set to folk music.

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

A man believes all the advertising he hears.

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

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

A historic adaptation of the life of José Pablo Morales who fought against an exploitative system of payment to day laborers during the reign...

Recreates the town meetings which were a staple of the DivEdCo project. True-life residents debate community priorities, in this case the...

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...

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.

The story revolves around the sickness of Dona Julia’s daughter Maria. After a bad experience at the local hospital, she seeks cures through...

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...

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...

Documentary on patients of the Instituto Psicopedagógico (Psycho-Pedagogical Institute) of Puerto Rico.

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

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