When Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, the U.S. territory was already battered by years of austerity measures aimed at erasing its $72 billion debt. Two years later, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of San Juan to demand the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló and the end of a brutal colonial fiscal policy. Cecilia Aldarondo, a member of the Puerto Rican diaspora, visited local communities and spoke with profiteers, in an attempt to understand events in a time of intertwined economic and environmental crises. A moving portrait of an entire people’s trauma and resistance, the film also delivers an incisive analysis of “disaster capitalism.” (Charlotte Selb)
Presented in the Canal D Space
Presented in collaboration with Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN)
Landfall
- Country : United States, Puerto Rico
- Year : 2020
- V.O : Spanish, English
- Subtitles : English
- Duration : 93 MIN
- Cinematography : Pablo Alvarez-Mesa
- Editing : Terra Jean Long
- Production : Ines Hofmann Kanna
- Production : Cecilia Aldarondo
- Music : Angélica Negrón
- Sound Design : Gisela Fullà Silvestre
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