Landfall

Directed by Cecilia Aldarondo

Documentary, 91 minutes

Puerto Rico, 2020

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWc9i1mrJHg

Poster: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12238708/

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 governor in 2019, the film offers a prismatic portrait of collective trauma and resistance as Puerto Ricans navigate dismantled social services and newcomers eager to profit.

Landfall une fragmentos de la vida cotidiana en Puerto Rico tras el paso del Huracán María, para crear un cuento con moraleja a la medida de nuestros tiempos. Contra el telón de fondo de las protestas que provocaron la renuncia del gobernador en el 2019, el documental retrata el trauma colectivo y la resistencia del pueblo puertorriqueño, que ha tenido que lidiar con el desmantelamiento de los servicios sociales y la llegada de extranjeros en busca de negocios lucrativos.

Cecilia Aldarondo is a documentary director-producer from the Puerto Rican diaspora who makes films at the intersection of poetics and politics. Her work has been supported by ITVS, HBO, A&E, the Sundance Institute, Cinereach, Firelight Media, Field of Vision, IFP, the Jerome Foundation, and many others. Her second feature Landfall (Tribeca 2020) was executive produced by Laura Poitras and Charlotte Cook of Field of Vision, and is an ITVS, POV and LPB co-production. Her debut feature Memories of a Penitent Heart was selected to World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on POV in 2017. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2017 Women at Sundance Fellow, two-time MacDowell Colony Fellow, and recipient of a 2019 Bogliasco Foundation Residency. In 2019 she was named to DOC NYC's 40 Under 40 list and is one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film for 2015. She teaches at Williams College.

Cecilia Aldarondo es una directora-productora del documental de la diáspora Puertorriqueña que trabaja películas a la intersección de la poética y la política. Su largometraje, MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART (Tribeca 2016), tuvo su estreno mundial en el Tribeca Film Festival 2016 y fue transmitido por POV en el 2017. Ella es una 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, una 2017 Women at Sundance Fellow, ha sido MacDowell Colony Fellow dos veces, y es recipiente del 2019 Bogliasco Foundation Residency. En el 2019, fue nombrada en la lista de DOC NYC's 40 Under 40 y es una de las 25 Caras Nuevas del Cine Independiente de Filmmaker Magazine del 2015. Actualmente enseña en Williams College.

Lale Namerrow Pastor, collaborator and Associate Producer, is a transfeminist person. Born in Río Piedras, raised in Puerto Nuevo, of Dominican mother and absent father. They completed their undergraduate studies at the University of Puerto Rico in Photography and Art History. They continue their academic preparation in directing and film production in the city of New York, in the New York Film Academy. Currently, they reside in Puerto Rico, where they are well known as a musical curator in the subversive-queer scene, an archive researcher and an audio visual producer. Among many things, they are Caribbean, an activist, a videographer, an editor, a consultant, a comrade, maricone, pate, turbe and quite possibly anything else that fits between quotation marks.

Lale Namerrow Pastor, colaboradora y Productora Asociada, es una persona transfeminista. Nacide en Río Piedras, criade en Puerto Nuevo, de madre dominicana y padre ausente. Completa sus estudios sub-graduados en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, en Fotografía e Historia del Arte. Continúa su preparación académica en dirección y producción de cine en la ciudad de Nueva York, en el New York Film Academy. Actualmente reside en Puerto Rico, donde se destaca como curadore musical en la escena cuir-subversiva, investigadore de archivo y productore audio-visual. Entre tanto caribeñe, activista, videógrafe, editore, asesore, compañere, maricone, pate, turbe y posiblemente, todo lo que quepa tras de una comilla.