Omar Silva

Nacimiento : , San Juan, Puerto Rico

Historia

Film score composer and guitarist for Puerto Rican reggae band Cultura Profética.

Películas

Érase una vez en el Caribe
Music
When Junior Walker sees Pura and wants her, he sends his men to kidnap her. What he wasn’t expecting was her husband to be Juan Encarnación; once the most feared foreman and skillful machete fighter. Encarnación will fight all of Junior’s goons to reunite his family, while Pura is being lured by the riches Junior has to offer.
Comida pa' los pobres
Music
A young Puerto Rican activist confronts the island's persistent crisis of food insecurity.
El hombre que cuida
Music
Juan se ha convertido en el hazmerreír del pequeño pueblo de pescadores, a raíz de que su mujer le fue infiel y se embarazó de otro hombre. Él ha dejado la pesca y cuida obsesivamente una ostentosa mansión de una familia adinerada de la capital. Un día, el joven hijo del dueño se aparece en la casa, sin permiso de su padre y cargado de alcohol, junto a un amigo extranjero y una chica del pueblo que acaban de conocer. Durante el transcurso del fin de semana, Juan se verá obligado a tomar decisiones que afectarán el resto de su vida.
Extra Terrestres
Music
The Díaz are an influential family who control much of the poultry industry in the island. Arcadio is the family patriarch, an authoritative and conservative man who rules over his family's destiny as he does over the chickens on his farm. Teresa, his eldest, left home during her college years to become an astrophysicist against her father's wishes. Now, after a 7-year absence, she returns home for a few weeks in order to reveal a secret long kept from her family and to invite them to her wedding with Daniela. But, once back, her intentions turn to dust when she finds herself trapped in the family's old habit of lying. No one in the family is as they seem, nor are they willing to unveil their true selves. Within this world of half-truths, Teresa encounters Andrés, her nephew, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome who shares her passion for the stars.
Cuentas pendientes
Music
Documentary about the life of Chilean journalist Carlos Weber and his healing journey after being captured and tortured by the Pinochet Regime.
Antes que cante el gallo
Music
Carmín sueña con algún día irse a vivir a la capital con su madre. Ese sueño se desmorona cuando la madre se muda con su nuevo esposo a los Estados Unidos. En pleno despertar adolescente, Carmín se ve forzada a permanecer en Barranquitas, un pueblito montañoso, junto a su abuela, una mujer dura, conservadora y de escasos recursos para la crianza. Solo la llegada del padre después de años en la cárcel comenzará a atenuar el malestar de Carmín. La relación, sin embargo, traerá sus propias ambigüedades y complejidades. Ahora la joven deberá aprender a vivir entre el abandono y el cuidado; entre el deseo, el amor y experimentar la más cruda ausencia.
Por amor en el caserío
Music
A story inspired by the legacy of William Shakespare and the classic Romeo and Juliet. Cristal and Ángelo fall in love amid a life full of violence, drugs, and social deterioration. Their families lead opposing drug gangs within the community where they live. Can Cristal's and Ángelo's love overcome the negative environment around them?
Medio minuto
Music
In the night of her fifty-four wedding anniversary, Rafaela finds out that Angel, her husband, has recently visit his ex-lover. This incident awakes old emotions, but at the same time brings a big surprise.
Caraballo, máscara y carnaval
Music
La careta de cartón piedra es parte del disfraz que utiliza el vejigante, uno de los personajes del Carnaval de Ponce, que se celebra cada año en el mes de febrero. El artesano don Miguel Caraballo aprende siendo niño a confeccionar las caretas. Con los años, va creando su propio estilo y desarrolla un método de trabajo meticuloso, logrando que sus caretas sean reconocidas por la perfección en su diseño y manufactura y obteniendo el reconocimiento de ser llamado el mejor artesano de caretas de Ponce.
Under My Nails
Music
A Puerto Rican salon employee is forced to confront her own erotic desires when she becomes obsessed with the violent sexual tendencies of her new neighbors.
15 años y un día
Music
To confront the harsh reality of being accused for sexually molesting his own daughter, a man seeks escape in his mind.
El cielo de los ratones
Music
Mice have taken over the household. Its silence is thick with words unspoken. A mother, a child, and a lover are pulled together and pushed apart by their love and soon find themselves trapped in a labyrinth of listlessness.
Eco
Music Director
Andrés is a nine year old boy musician who plays the treble. On the way to a recital with his parents and in the midst of endless traffic, he tries to practice the melody he’ll be playing. Frustrated by the traffic, the heat, and that he can’t play the piece correctly, Andrés bursts in anger, throwing his instrument, which stops time as it touches the floor.
Isla chatarra
Music
Isla chatarra describes the phenomenon of the ubiquity of automobiles in Puerto Rico. The island measures slightly less than 9,000 square kilometers, but has 25,000 kilometers of paved road, one of the highest proportions in the planet. Puerto Rico is one of the countries with the largest number of vehicles per kilometer (of road) and third in the world in number of cars per 1,000 inhabitants. The film was produced with the idea to raise consciousness and create a dialogue about the ongoing situation of our dependence on cars. It also shows the dangerous circumstances of an island that is slowly being covered by scrap metal.
Maldeamores
Music
A three-part look at the ironies of love, with stories that involve a young boy, a hostage situation, and a divorced elderly couple caught in a love triangle.
El clown
Music
A young clown decides to abandon the small-town circus he works for in order to try and make it in a big city.