Jorge Castro

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Jorge Castro

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Los Reyes de la Salsa
Pacífico
Tells the story of salsa music partners Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz. The film explores their battles on and off the stage, from their musical origins, family conflicts, and their struggle to rise to the top, as they transform Latin music forever.
Bienvenido Don Goyito
Johnny
Satirical comedy about a jíbaro that moves from the country to the city and resists to change his rural customs. The film depicts family and emotional conflicts that Puerto Rico suffered due to Americanization.
Emergencia: Un documental sobre Superaquello
Súperaquello is an alternative rock band that marked a milestone in the independent music scene in Puerto Rico. Its music peers augured its commercial success and its loyal fans gave it cult status. Emergencia (Emergency) is an intimate look at the interactions between Eduardo Alegría, Francis Pérez, Patricia Dávila, Jorge Castro, and Pablo Santiago and how their personalities created the band's greatness -- which in turn led to its dissolution.
Cows Wearing Glasses
Marcelino is an eccentric, introverted painter and art professor who, approaching his sunset years, learns he has a disease that could render him blind at any moment. As he begins to put his emotional affairs in order, including his strained relationship with his daughter, he must face the inevitable.
El despertar
Stephen
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.
Parece que fue ayer
Toñito (1950s)
Portrays the cultural changes experienced in Puerto Rico since the 1950's until 2000, through the story of a family.
And God Created Them 2
Three stories ("Lo mismo de otra manera", "Félix", and "Te tengo una sorpresa") that delve deeply into issues such as human solidarity, infidelity, and social conflicts in contemporary Puerto Rico.
Cuéntame tu pena
Adolfo
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.
La noche que tumbaron al campeón
Raquelo
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.
El 7mo ángel
Victor
After the fall of Lucifer, seven of the most powerful Angels joined their forces against God and tried to take over the Heavens. Their attempt failed... As punishment, they were vanished from the Reign and scattered across the Universe. All except one, who was to live on Earth among the humans without any notion of his true past. Now, at the end of the Millennium, the Angels have reunited, and descended to Earth in search of the missing one... Revenge is about to begin, mankind is in inevitable danger, and our only hope resides on the Seventh Angel.
Oso Blanco
Marcial
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.
Miles: The Other History of 98
Dramatization of the American invasion in Puerto Rico during 1898.
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Music
Cuentos de Abelardo
Leocardio
A selection of three short stories by Puerto Rican writer Abelardo Díaz Alfaro (“Don Procopio”, “Peyo Mercé enseña inglés”, and “Bagazo”), portraying typical characters of the Puerto Rican social and economic classes in the 1940's.
Condemned to Hell
Silvia is incarcerated in a corrupt women prison and forced to participate in drug distribution. When she refuses she is punished and her sister murdered. She will try to get free and get her revenge.