Antonio Torres Martinó

Рождение : , Ponce, Puerto Rico

Смерть : 2011-04-22

История

Puerto Rican painter, artist, journalist, and writer.

Фильмы

Brainless Juan
Narrator
An adaptation of Luis A. Maisonet’s 1959 film "Juan sin seso", Israel Lugo’s "Brainless Juan" looks at how, half a century later, celebrity influences the individual. Using the original audio from the 1959 film, "Brainless Juan" shows images of everyday life in Santurce’s streets and back alleys, using subtle irony to deliver a strong message.
Adombe: la presencia africana en Puerto Rico
Narrator
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.
Puerto Rico: arte e identidad
Writer
Traces the themes and characteristics present in the plastic arts of Puerto Rico, which represent a search for the Puerto Rican identity.
Puerto Rico: arte e identidad
Executive Producer
Traces the themes and characteristics present in the plastic arts of Puerto Rico, which represent a search for the Puerto Rican identity.
Puerto Rico: arte e identidad
Himself
Traces the themes and characteristics present in the plastic arts of Puerto Rico, which represent a search for the Puerto Rican identity.
Thunder Island
Colonel Cepeda
A hit man hijacks a boat — and the married couple aboard — in order to carry out a contract on a dictator in the Caribbean.
Harbor Lights
Captain Acosta
Professional gambler Dan Crown arrives in San Juan to visit his brother Alex, only to learn from the police that Alex has been found murdered. To Captain Acosta's questioning, Dan answers that he had no knowledge of his brother's affairs. Dan then finds Gina Rosario searching his hotel room, and together they begin to investigate Alex's death.
The One with White Shanks
Narrator
The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding their wives’ advice, individuals join forces in a cooperative so they can sell their crop of tobacco leaves at fair market value.
Más allá del Capitolio
Don Rodrigo (voice)
A small town celebrates the triumph of their revolution. Under the euphoria of the moment, the town's founder is declared a traitor and the destruction of his statue is decided by the people. A journalist buys the statue before it is destroyed. Later, the townspeople discover that the statue isn't from who they thought it was and they decide to retrieve it. The journalist, however, doesn't want to give it back, giving rise to the dilemma.
Brainless John
Narrator
A man believes all the advertising he hears.
Maruja
Carlos
In a small rural town, everybody lays eyes on Maruja, the most beautiful woman there. After the son of the mayor comes back from France, he also notices Maruja, setting forth events of love, jealousy, guilt, and anger.
¿Qué opina la mujer?
Narrator
The role that women should play in the modern-day Puerto Rican family is discussed. The discussion is dramatized by a rural husband and wife involved in a domestic dispute.
La plena
Narrator
One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal areas, and the fusion of popular and refined genres in presentations by Ballets de San Juan of the ballet-plena by Amaury Veray, "Cuando las mujeres" ("When the Women").
El santero
Narrator
Zoilo Cajigas y Sotomayor is a carver of wooden models of saints. Don Zoilo is one of Puerto Rico's best-known artisans and was 96 years old at the time of the filming. The film shows the elaborate process behind his craftsmanship.
Roots of Happiness
Narrator
Dramatizes the case of a family in which the father respects and loves his wife and children, permitting each to develop as an individual, and contrasts this family with one where discord and hostility prevail.
Desde las nubes
Narrator
The first documentary produced by the Division of Community Education (DivEdCo) featuring modern and experimental audio techniques with aerial shots of Puerto Rico showing its topography, educationally inserting the island within a world-wide historical context and highlighting its agricultural and social landscape.
Una voz en la montaña
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Field workers in Puerto Rico want to have a night school.