Vicente Castro
The famous fairy tale of Cinderella is adapted to our times, considering as background the present situation of Puerto Rican coffee growers. The story is set in Lares, Puerto Rico, at a time close to Christmas. Miosotis’s father has died and Ava Rice, his widow, wants to sell his family coffee farm to a foreign company, whose monopoly on the island continues to displace the country's coffee growers.
Inspired on the true story of drug lord José Figueroa Agosto, commonly known as Junior Cápsula. A Puerto Rican drug convict escapes from jail and flees to Santo Domingo, where he continues his drug business and meets a woman who becomes his lover.
Adalberto's life turns upside down when his daughter Sylvia announces she's getting married.
Human needs are explored in a group of adolescents who find themselves in a tutorial room in preparation for the university's entrance exam. This film aims for youths to reflect on their way of thinking and acting.
Three stories relating in adoption. The first presents a couple facing the loss of their baby through an assault. The second story is based on a child who is abandoned by his mother along with his little sister. The third is that of a pastor's young daughter who becomes pregnant.
The story of a mother and her four children and their struggle to survive the abuse of her love partner.
Al Borde del Deseo was a Puerto Rican TV series that was airing in WAPA-TV in Puerto Rico and in United States in WAPA America about the true story of passionate women who share their experiences of love and disaffection in a modern world, struggling to enjoy an economic and professional position similar to that of men. They are women of different social classes, values and lifestyles opposites. Women who go through life trying to find happiness in a drama-laden comedy, that we are unveiling their aspirations, privacy, hopes, and of course their shenanigans. Women, who learn late in her life, to enjoy an independent life, ready to claim, what belongs to them. It is the story of women in common, not trying to be bigger than life itself but on the contrary, reflect the daily life of women working and struggling to achieve something better than what life has led them. Stories of women, torn from life itself. Stories of homes in the conflict, of lies, of fiery passions and above all of that unfortunate habit of human beings: infidelity. The series finish production and it´s was a total of 26 episodes. The first episode was on October 29, 2008 and the last episode was on May 2, 2009.
A young woman flees just before her wedding day and disappears to avoid facing the consequences of her actions.
A woman suffers a disillusionment and travels to her homeland to spend Christmas and disconnect and forget the lovesickness. The reunion with her land, her traditions, and a new love, will make her feel alive again.
A mature and professionally successful woman travels to Puerto Rico and finds herself victim of Cupid, who wraps her in the indestructible networks of love.
A drama showing infidelity from the unique perspective of women. The one who was betrayed, the one who does it for fun, the obsessed, and the one on the verge of committing an infidelity, all presented without judgment about what is right and what is wrong.
Robert and Juliana are very much in love and plan to marry, but Juliana's father opposes the marriage because there is a debt pending.
Two love stories intertwine the past and present Puerto Rico. In the first, the only woman in history to be sentenced to death in the island. In the second, an accident completely changes the life of a pianist, who must get used to his new physical situation.
It deals with eating disorders affecting the Puerto Rican society, particularly children.
Families gather to receive the New Year. But this meeting brings a series of confessions that will make for a very peculiar evening.
Based on a true story, Jossie is a young Puerto Rican mother, who is a victim of her husband's aggression. She decides to divorce him and leave the circle of violence in which they live. However, her ex-husband's obsessive jealousy and his thirst for revenge will eventually destroy her.
Portrays with successful realism the drama of Dominicans who risk their lives by embarking on small boats to cross the Mona Passage bound for Puerto Rico, in search of a better future.
Portrays two wealthy families who encourage the acquisition of money through the easy way and the effects of their illicit actions. In their eagerness to maintain their social level, one of the families neglects their daughter, thinking that money is everything. The other maintains making money as north because they come from a poor social stratum.
Two stories intersect, with violence as a common axis. An inside look into the world of youth boxing, full of championship illusions, combined with jealousy and envy.
The story of two adolescents whose love is threatened by the violence they live in their school.
Aurora, a renowned and talented Spanish painter, travels to Puerto Rico accompanying her boyfriend Mauricio, who must be reunited with his family after many years. The visit will generate chaos and will open wounds of a terrible past.
The story of Ana Belén, who has to give her daughter Gilda to her best friend and foster sister Maribel, because she must serve a prison sentence.
Located in a popular neighborhood, three stories are interwoven by means of violence. The struggles and vicissitudes of a group of young people seeking to get out of the negative environment that threatens to consume their lives is portrayed. Inspired by the true story of Ricky, a trumpeter student who was murdered.
A group of actors is shooting a film in Aguas Buenas, based on the legend of a magician. There, they become infected with the honesty syndrome, which unleashes a number of hidden secrets to come to light.
The story of a family that is threatened by expropriation. The struggle of a woman becomes the struggle of the entire neighborhood.
A taxi driver, who becomes the anonymous confidant of his passengers, witnesses the various stories they tell him. A famous actress, a child rescued from the underworld witness to the murder of her parents, and a woman victim of domestic violence are the characters that lead us to reflect on some of the realities that we live in our society.
Two women are tied to the same man. The deception is not discovered until his death, which will provoke a strong encounter between them.
Five prominent politicians are celebrating the bachelor party of one of them, but an accident occurs and a person dies. Now everyone is involved.
A woman hosts a nocturnal radio program, in which people can release their anguish. The call of a woman with a sexual addiction problem will trigger the suspense when she is killed while her call is in the air.
The most anticipated night for all, where a boxing champion fights for his title. A woman tries to commit suicide and a fugitive tries to find a way out. Together by chance and united by their circumstances while the fight is held, they struggle to cling on to life despite having lost everything.
In an ex-alumni meeting, five friends meet and acknowledge their regret that they have not been able to get out of life what they always proposed. An approach to freedom and solidarity among all women despite men.
A fictional story inspired by the Utuado Massacre, in which the father of a family, in a cold-blooded manner, murdered his wife and his four children.
Two young people fall in love amid a gang war in a public housing project in Puerto Rico.
A group of children camp in the yard of their grandmother's house in the outskirts of El Yunque. Plunged into a fantastic collective dream, the children get lost in El Yunque and experience the adventure of finding their way home, as they meet themselves and three magical characters who represent our cultural mix: an indian, a black freed slave, and a Spanish gentleman.
Three shipwreck survivors reach the shores of a deserted island used to carry out military experiments. The issue of military occupation and its consequences on the civilian population is presented in this microcosm, composed by the three characters.
Two couples see their lives transformed after the tragedy of losing a child. Both families face the loss in their own way, allowing feelings of guilt, deny, and jealousy to surface, until family disintegration is almost inevitable.
Filmed in the maximum security section of the State Penitentiary, Oso Blanco is the story of three individuals and their vision of freedom, and how prison life makes the characters take unexpected actions.
Coralito is the wife of Paulino, who dies but never leaves her. Especially when she marries the town doctor, Hernán.
Selva is a prominent television host and her husband is a successful producer. Together they will embark on the adventure of producing a film, which will mirror their own passions.
The story of two cousins struggling in the world of drugs and chaos in the neighborhood of La Perla of Old San Juan. A kind of modern Cain and Abel in the urban world, surrounded by characters and real situations that shook Puerto Rico and especially this colorful neighborhood that borders the walls of El Morro.
The death and burial of the patriarch of a Vega Baja family provokes the reunion of all his sons and wives, who have been estranged for six years. They all gather for his funeral with ulterior purposes, but attend the meeting amidst a hurricane alert for Puerto Rico.
Three couples camping in a Puerto Rican town have an unexpected encounter with a famous criminal, changing their lives forever.
