Jaime Costas

Movies

Croatto: La huella de un emigrante
Director of Photography
Visual, emotional, musical, and historical pilgrimage of the places, moments, and circumstances that Tony Croatto traced during his life and artistic trajectory.
Cuentas pendientes
Director of Photography
Documentary about the life of Chilean journalist Carlos Weber and his healing journey after being captured and tortured by the Pinochet Regime.
Fragments of Love
Director of Photography
Rodrigo, a piano-tuner and former composer fallen on hard times, begins a love affair with the soon-to-be-married Susana. When a bomb in the city of Medellín nearly kills them, Rodrigo and Susana surrender to their attraction and fall into each other’s arms. Cocooned in her apartment above the vibrant city, Susana opens up to him every night and tells him a story of each of the different men from her past. Her stories inspire him to compose again, but his obsession makes him jealous and paranoid. When Susana finally leaves her fiancée to be with Rodrigo, he becomes obsessed with her fidelity.
Tokio
Director of Photography
When all the residents of Tokío are evicted from their houses, two kids, Emiliano and Aurelia, are forced to end their friendship. But before that, they make a plan to save the life of a kitten that is going to be abandoned when everybody leaves the neighborhood. This seems like a very simple scheme, but it turns out to be a lesson of beauty, and humanity, that emerges from themselves as an act of rebellion in a world full of destruction.
Amarillo
Director of Photography
In this veterans' hospice, every patient spends their last days fighting between life and death. Veterans die alone in rooms full of memories and anecdotes about wars that they fought for a country that they barely knew.
La ruta de los murales
Additional Photography
The testimonies of some artists on mural painting in Puerto Rico, as well as art historians and curators, offer multiple perspectives of the mural paintings in different geographical areas of the island.
El cimarrón
Cinematography
El cimarrón is a love story about a young African couple, Marcos and Carolina, that takes place in the slavery era at the turn of the nineteen-century in a Caribbean island. After several futile escape plans, Marcos finally escaped. Now free, he returns to liberate his beloved Carolina.
El último caso del detective Prado
Director of Photography
After a long career as a detective in the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Police of Puerto Rico, José Rafael Prado takes office work before retiring. The murder of a coworker creates a vacancy Prado quickly wants to fill in order to "retire with honor".
El cuerpo del delito
Cinematography
The shocking and compelling true story of two women; one savagely raped, tortured and burned; the other, a detective that makes this case her mission. United by destiny and tragedy, they find strength in each other to find the criminals who committed such a brutal and violent crime.
The Promise of Kings
Director of Photography
The story of a family that is threatened by expropriation. The struggle of a woman becomes the struggle of the entire neighborhood.
Bala perdida
Cinematography
A festive, tropical Christmas in Puerto Rico is what Jennifer and Papotico are most looking forward to. Both young people are filled with musical talent, with dreams and hopes for the future. But their innocence, zeal for life, and special friendship are overshadowed by the social and economic issues of Puerto Rico. Full of powerful performances and based on a true story, “Bala Perdida” will leave a chilling feeling in your bones.
12 horas
Cinematography
A night in the life of a cab driver in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Los Díaz de Doris
Cinematography
Doris is a hardworking and honest woman, divorced and mother of two teenagers whom she adores but doesn’t understand. After a bad relationship with her husband, she no longer trusts men. She lives only for her children, but they’re living their own lives. One day, Doris learns that things can get better.
Paging Emma
Director of Photography
An operator at a mobile pager company has her life turned upside down by a seemingly senseless abduction.
Que será
Director of Photography
A man shares his apartment with his elderly mother. He puts a Doris Day record, "Que sera, sera", and his life walks by in a flash.
Sueños atrapados
Director of Photography
Discusses the mass immigration to the United States from the Dominican Republic due to the poor economic conditions there. Includes interviews with people, primarily women, who have emigrated and gives details on the hardships the travelers endure.
Luisa Capetillo: pasión de justicia
Director of Photography
Features the life of feminist Luisa Capetillo in late 19th and early 20th century Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico: arte e identidad
Director of Photography
Traces the themes and characteristics present in the plastic arts of Puerto Rico, which represent a search for the Puerto Rican identity.
Visa para un sueño
Director of Photography
Documentary on the exodus of the Dominican illiterate laborers to Puerto Rico during the late 1980's to 1990. Focuses on the plight of Dominican women who, faced with no economic opportunities in Santo Domingo, embark in an illegal boat trip to Puerto Rico.