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Jurakán Documentaries
DIRECTION & PRODUCTION
Rosa Emmanuelli Gutiérrez & Gonzalo Mazzini
Mission to learn and share what we discover—deepening understanding of Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and American realities through authentic storytelling.
Vision to make documentaries that spark epiphanies.
What's next? Over the past decade, we’ve recorded 120 interviews with: profesors, lawyers, artists, farmers, families, community groups, and even members of major political parties. These raw conversations are now being shaped into feature-length documentaries—each one a living archive of our collective memory.
These movies will ignite necessary dialogues about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re headed.
BRINGING CINEMA CLOSER TO PEOPLE 2018-2019
Our first documentary took us on a tour across Puerto Rico and the United States.
100 events
15,000+ spectators
49 cities
40 schools
At every screening, after the film ended, we opened the floor to talk with the audience.
Those conversations inspired us to create documentaries that directly reflected people's feelings, making cinema a continuous exchange.
CINEMA-DIALOGUE
The most popular question was the following:
What do the people of Puerto Rico do in the face of adversity?
This question is the central theme of our upcoming documentary:
The Power of Our People.
THE DIASPORAS
The screenings of JURAKÁN in the United States were an opportunity to connect with
families and communities from the east to the west coast of the continental United States.
One of the diasporas we encountered was that of Humboldt Park in Chicago
The imposing steel flags welcomed us
to what would become the third documentary in the Jurakán Collection:
BARRIO BORIKÉN
Tales from Chicago
To be continued...
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