Film Certificate News

El Abuelo, a short film by UPRM graduate Antonio Yordan, starring Miguel Angel Suarez, and funded by the Puerto Rico Film Commission, has been accepted by the 36th Annual Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca in Huesca, Spain (June 5-14, 2008), and will compete in the Concurso Iberamericano de Cortometrajes.

Representatives of our Film Certificate will participate in the Open House and Expo Cine hosted by Taller de Cine on Saturday, May 3. Taller de Cine has operated for more than 8 years out of Jose Gautier Benitez High School in Caguas. The Open House will offer a series of pre-produccion, produccion, and post-produccion workshops given by Puerto Rican production companies, There will be guest appearances by Puerto Rican actors and filmmakers Noel Quinones, Rita Moreno and Miguel Angel Alvaraez, and film showings. We will be publicizing our certificate and showing films produced by our students in this important event in which all of the film programs in Puerto Rico will be represented.