Brincando el Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican (1994)
Contemplates the notion of "identity" through the experiences of a Puerto Rican woman living in the US. In a wonderful mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews and soap opera drama, the film tells the story of Claudia Marin, a middle-class, light-skinned, lesbian Puerto Rican photographer / videographer who is attempting to construct a sense of community in the US. Confronting the simultaneity of both her privilege and her oppression, this experimental narrative becomes a meditation on class, race, and sexuality as shifting differences.
Director: Frances Negrón Muntaner
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Frances Negrón Muntaner as Claudia |
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Natalia Lazarus as |
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Zulma González as |
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Toni Cade Bambara as |
| Production | Frances Negrón Muntaner | Producer |
| Camera | Chris Emmanouilides | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Frances Negrón Muntaner | Writer |
| Camera | Jim Denault | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Valerie Keller | Editor |
| Sound | Loyda Camacho | Music |
| Directing | Frances Negrón Muntaner | Director |
| Sound | Jay Fluellen | Music |
