Modesta
35 mins
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.
Domingo Silás Ortiz
Story
Héctor Campos Parsi
Music
Otoniel Vila
Producer
Benjamín Doniger
Writer
Benjamín Doniger
Director