1950: La Insurrección Nacionalista (The Nationalist Uprising)
by José Manuel Dávila Marichal
Puerto Rico, 2017
synopsis
Electrifying, revealing and timely, this documentary revisits a seminal event in Puerto Rico’s history: the ten days in October 1950 when one hundred people, members of the island’s Nationalist Party, took up arms to overthrow the rule of the United States and establish Puerto Rican sovereignty. The insurgents, outnumbered and ill-equipped, were crushed by the police and the National Guard, and either killed or imprisoned. Buttressed by archival film and photographs and animated reenactments, 1950: The Nationalist Uprising presents the testimonies of five Puerto Ricans who participated in this almost forgotten struggle. They speak about the consequences of the uprising on their lives, and the ideal of freedom that burns within them still.
about the directors
In 2013 he concluded the Master in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2020 he obtained his doctorate in contemporary history from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He is the Director of the documentary “1950: La Insurrección Nacionalista”. He is currently editing the documentary “Dico: Portrait of a Puerto Rican Revolutionary”
