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Mataron A Pedro

Logline:

In the 1930s, a Harvard educated Black Puerto Rican faces off with the white Chief of Police on the island over island-wide strikes. What happens next forever alters the future of the colonized island.

Synopsis:

A Harvard-educated Afro Puerto Rican lawyer returns home in the 1930s and ignites a confrontation with colonial power, risking everything, including his freedom, his family, and his life, to stand with striking workers in a fight that shaped Puerto Rico’s future.

Credits

Director(s):

Kristian Mercado

Producer(s):

Debora Perez

Writer:

Kristian Mercado

Lead Actor(s):

Ismael Cruz Cordova