Van Divedco Studios

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

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.

The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding...

Adapted from Mexico's "The Forgotten Village". It deals with the fight that develops from the superstitious and ignorant interpretation of a problem...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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,...

A generational conflict is reflected in the old-fashioned ideas of the landowner, who imposes himself as a dominant figure in the political activity...

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...

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

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

The role that women should play in the modern-day Puerto Rican family is discussed. The discussion is dramatized by a rural husband and wife involved...

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