Synopsis
Through shard-like glimpses of everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, LANDFALL is a cautionary tale for our times. Set against the backdrop of protests that toppled the US colony’s governor in 2019, the film offers a prismatic portrait of collective trauma and resistance. While the devastation of María attracted a great deal of media coverage, the world has paid far less attention to the storm that preceded it: a 72-billion-dollar debt crisis crippling Puerto Rico well before the winds and waters hit. LANDFALL examines the kinship of these two storms—one environmental, the other economic—juxtaposing competing utopian visions of recovery. Featuring intimate encounters with Puerto Ricans as well as the newcomers flooding the island, LANDFALL reflects on a question of contemporary global relevance: when the world falls apart, who do we become?
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| Vudu: | Vudu |
Movie Details
| Domestic Releases: | Summer, 2021 (Canceled) by POV |
| Video Release: | July 12th, 2021 by PBS |
| Running Time: | 82 minutes |
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| Keywords: | Puerto Rico, Extreme Weather, 2010s, Political, TV Movie |
| Source: | Based on Real Life Events |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Factual |
| Production/Financing Companies: | Blackscrackle Films, The Independent Television Service, Field of Vision, Ford Foundation, Just Films, POV, Latino Public Broadcasting, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Open Society Foundations, International Documentary Association, Ida Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, Tribeca Film Institute, Tribeca Gucci, Oath Foundation, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, John Solomon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, The Bogliasco Foundation |
| Production Countries: | United States |
| Languages: | English, Spanish |