Todo parecía posible

Ramón Rivera Moret remembers Puerto Rico at a utopian moment through the films produced in rural communities in the 1950s and 60s by the Film Unit of the Division of Community Education alongside stories from his own family.

Luis Muñoz Marín was the first governor of Puerto Rico elected by its people. A socialist since his youth, he began a campaign to educate his people and create a desire through cinema to imagine the country anew. This task fell to the Film Unit of the Division of Community Education whose early years Ramón Rivera Moret remembers with compassionate vision and voice in Todo parecía posible, alongside personal histories from his family.

The 1950s were a time of hope for Puerto Rico, as in many countries and the island nation’s first filmmakers, chiefly Amílcar Tirado, Benjamín Doniger and Tsarist-Ukraine-born Jack Delano, crafted stories from the daily lives of predominantly the poorer population, and how their collective existence was slowly but determinately improving thanks to the new political and economic realities of the post-war US Commonwealth. 

– Olaf Möller

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