Milton Graña

Filmes

Inés María Mendoza: la palabra como destino
Director of Photography
The life and work of this visionary woman who carried out a valuable social, educational, and conservation work unprecedented in the history of Puerto Rico.
D.R.E.A.M. Team
Camera Operator
J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team of terrorists, led by the murderous Oliver Maxwell, plan on producing a bomb carrying an anthrax virus to be used in the United States. Garrison summons CIA agent Zack Hamilton who puts together a team of three beautiful women; CIA trainer Kim Taylor; photographer Victoria Carrera; and actress Eva Kirov to go to undercover as fashion models to infiltrate the terrorist organization to find the bomb before it can be used.
Meu Pequeno Anjo
Director of Photography
O reino do céu está um caos. Deus foi à Terra para encontrar fé e esperança na humanidade. Desiludida porque o céu já não é um paraíso, a "menina-anjo" María de las Estrellas desce à Terra para buscar o chefe máximo do céu. Ali encontra novas aventuras, problemas e soluções inesperadas em sua missão de resgatar o céu e salvar a Terra. Através dos seus olhos de anjo e sua inocência de menina, María de las Estrellas descobre no amor e na alegria o único caminho para cumprir sua promessa.
Meu Pequeno Anjo
Writer
O reino do céu está um caos. Deus foi à Terra para encontrar fé e esperança na humanidade. Desiludida porque o céu já não é um paraíso, a "menina-anjo" María de las Estrellas desce à Terra para buscar o chefe máximo do céu. Ali encontra novas aventuras, problemas e soluções inesperadas em sua missão de resgatar o céu e salvar a Terra. Através dos seus olhos de anjo e sua inocência de menina, María de las Estrellas descobre no amor e na alegria o único caminho para cumprir sua promessa.
Cuentos para despertar
Director of Photography
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".
Una pasión llamada Clara Lair
Director of Photography
Through dramatization and interviews with her colleagues, this film captures the life and work of famed Puerto Rican poet Mercedes Negrón Muñoz (also known as Clara Lair).
Linda Sara
Director of Photography
Facing financial ruin, four siblings decide to sell the valuables within their mother's house, without telling her and by embellishing their history.
La guagua aérea
Director of Photography
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.
Adombe: la presencia africana en Puerto Rico
Director of Photography
Documentary film about the history and influence of Africans in Puerto Rican society. In addition to still photographs, film clips and interviews, the film utilizes dramatizations of scenes from the life of the poet Luis Palés Matos to illustrate the history and contributions of black Puerto Ricans through the centuries.
San Juan Story
Director of Photography
A professional rum-taster must negotiate the paths of love, superstition, and magic to regain his lost powers.
Cuentos de Abelardo
Director of Photography
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.
Cuentos de Abelardo
Cinematography
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.
La gran fiesta
Cinematography
In 1942, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a casino is organizing a farewell party for its patrons, since it's about to be turned into a US military base. The guests drink, seduce and gossip, but some also plot against each other.
Luis Muñoz Marín: un hombre, un pueblo, un propósito
Director of Photography
This documentary analyzes the life and political legacy of Puerto Rico’s first elected governor, Luis Muñoz Marín, covering his early career in the late 30’s through the 1960’s.
One-Way Ticket
Camera Operator
Documentary about how the arrival of the railway industry impacted Puerto Rican culture economically, socially, and humanistically during the first half of the 20th century. It includes photos by Jack Delano, among others, and scenarios to reconstruct the experience of what could have been the last trip made by train from San Juan to Ponce in 1953.
A Step Away
Assistant Editor
Focuses on the performance of various elite athletes during the PanAmerican Games held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979. Athletes showcased in the documentary include USA team swimmer of Puerto Rican origin Jesse Vassallo; legendary Cuban track and field athlete Alberto Juantorena; Mexican diver Carlos Girón; American diver Greg Louganis; and the Puerto Rico national basketball team, among others. At the end of the film, the athletes expressed their hopes of being "a step away" from the 1980 Olympics Games; however, these hopes were shattered by the political crisis and the eventual USA-led boycott to the Olympic Games held in Moscow in 1980.
Siempre estuvimos aquí
Camera Operator
This documentary traces the role women have played in Puerto Rican society.