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Landfall

Directed by Cecilia Aldarondo

United States | 91 minutes | 2020

Through shard-like glimpses of everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, Landfall examines a ruined world at the brink of transformation, spinning a cautionary tale for our times.

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 rismatic 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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"Cecilia Aldarondo is a documentary director-producer from the Puerto Rican diaspora who makes films at the intersection of poetics and politics. Her feature documentary Memories of A Penitent Heart (Tribeca 2016) had its World Premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast 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."
Type of Film Feature
Country of Origin United States
Year Film Was Completed 2020
Runtime 91 minutes
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Director Cecilia Aldarondo
Producers Cecilia Aldarondo, Ines Hofmann Kanna, Lale Namerrow Pastor Supervising Producer for ITVS Michael Kinomoto Executive Producers Charlotte Cook Laura Poitras Executive Producer for ITVS Sally Jo Fifer Executive Producers for POV Justine Nagan Chris White
Cinematography Pablo Alvarez-Mesa
Edited by Terra Jean Long
Music by Angélica Negrón
Main Cast Lale Namerrow Pastor, Cecilia Aldarondo, Edgardo (Tato), Alvarado Alvarez, María Alvarado. Hiram Albino, Hiram Albino Jr., Luis Bonet, Lara Medina, René Reyes, Ricardo Quiles, Raquela Delgado-Valentín, Stephanie Nieves, L’Orangelis Thomas, Quinn Eaker, Elisa Sanchez, Brock Pierce, Yaron Brook, Armando Santiago Pintado, Neisha Ramos Benjamin, Michael Urayoan Connelly Reyes, Pablo Connelly, Luis Vazquez O’Neill, Carla Torres Trujillo, Awilda Rodriguez Lora, Marilyn Ortiz Laureano, Luis E Bonnet Cuello

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