Eugenio Monclova
Nacimiento : 1957-12-05, Puerto Rico
Historia
Eugenio Monclova is a Puerto Rican stage, film and television actor and director. He holds a BA in Acting from the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, and an MFA in Directing and Acting from the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).
Deacon José
Diez años después de que un maremoto destruyera el colegio de primaria de un pueblo con todos los niños en su interior, un joven decide levantar una misteriosa estructura con los restos del colegio dando lugar al resurgimiento de recuerdos y viejas pasiones.
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.
Hace nueve meses fue el cumpleaños de Felipe. Su esposa le había preparado una fiesta sorpresa. Esa misma noche comenzó a tener las más extrañas visiones. Hace ocho meses y tres semanas que Felipe llegó a la conclusión de que Alicia, su esposa, daba todas las indicaciones de ser una bruja. Y el día en que Felipe decidió confrontarla, el diálogo desembocó en una interesante revelación: Alicia estaba embarazada.
"El Detective Cojines" narra la historia de un profesor universitario obsesionado con las novelas de detectives quien, tras un accidente, se convierte en un investigador privado al estilo de las películas y novelas de los años 40. Entre los casos de infidelidad que atiende le llegarán tres que revelarán toda una gama de intrigas y extraños secretos.
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.
Sherlock Holmes
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".
Illustrates the events of the Ponce Massacre through the life of one of the victims, Ulpiano Perea.
Jury Member #1
Crítica a la prensa amarilla.
El Vampiro
In Old San Juan a 40+ year old divorcée is not aware he befriends a vampire who bites women, not in their necks but in their derrières, leaving them with flattened behinds. A vampire hunter from Europe warns Celestino about his neighbor and tries to recruit his help in salvaging a much cherished national heritage. But there is a difficulty: this vampire will not die by a stake through his heart and to avoid destruction he wears tin underwear.
Medic / Friend
A film narrative on Puerto Rican playwright and journalist don Cayetano Coll y Toste. Three of his most famous stories are reenacted: "El Santo Cristo de la Salud", "El Espíritu del Carretero", and "La Garita del Diablo".
Recreates aspects of the life of Abelardo Díaz Alfaro as a rural teacher in Puerto Rico during 1940's, integrating three of his stories "El josco", "Santa Cló va a la cuchilla", and "Don Fruto Torres".
Passenger visiting NY for the first time
A comedy narrating the adventures of ten Puerto Ricans looking for a better life. The film centers on an airplane trip to New York during 1960's. It relates in a comical, yet poignant manner, the array of reasons each of the passengers has for leaving Puerto Rico and the challenges they face as suggested by the interactions of the Anglo crew and the passengers.
Based on Enrique A. Laguerre's novel.
Based on Manuel Zeno Gandía's novel about peasant life in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico.
