Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas
by Rosie Perez, Liz Garbus
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Actor: Jimmy Smits, Pedro Pietri, Ramon Rodriguez, Rosie Perez, Sixto RamosDirector: Liz Garbus, Rosie Perez
Producer: Rosie Perez
Cinematographer: Roger Sherman
Cinematographer: Tom Hurwitz
Producer: Liz Garbus
Editor: Kate Taverna
Producer: Alison Palmer Bourke
Producer: Evan Shapiro
Producer: Julie Gaither
Producer: Roger M. Sherman
Writer: Roger M. Sherman
Producer: Rory Kennedy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Red Envelope Ent
DVD Reviews of Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas
DVD Review: This is Puerto Rico from a Ghetto Rican point of view.
Summary: 1 Stars
This sorry excuse for documentary is no more than a personal home video than anything else. Is sad how a bunch of Puerto Rican descendants decide to try making a documentary a fail.
This film should be called. "Puerto Rico from the point of view of Newyoricans that know nothing about the real Puerto Rico"
DO NOT BUY THIS!!!
DVD Review: Loved It!
Summary: 5 Stars
I had purchased this video for my fathers birthday. I had seen this documentary when it came out and enjoyed it very much! It is so true. My father is a very proud Puerto Rican man and kept talking about what he has heard about the video. I searched and found it! Since he has received it my brother and his friends have all enjoyed it! Papi has seen it 3x and raves about how wonderful it is and how much he enjoys it! AnnetteDVD Review: Yo Soy Boricua Tambien
Summary: 5 Stars
I happened to see this documentary while channel surfing. The scenes from the 1960s brought back memories that I truly cherish. The DVD is excellent and highly informative I give it 5-stars out of 5DVD Review: not what you would think
Summary: 4 Stars
yeah, i would like to politely ask amazon to not ask me to review any thing un less they are willing to pay me. Thanks RobDVD Review: It's Just Awful-PERIOD!
Summary: 1 Stars
Don't let my name fool you, I know the Island of Puerto Rico and the people of the island well.It's a great place with many many wonderful people.
Granted, the slant here is on a Nuyorican viewpoint, except that
Rosie Perez and company never really get to a concrete reason of what and why they should be so "proud". Instead, she concentrates on the style of displays the annual parades emphasize,NOT on the real struggles and culture of the island, and why the status problem, at this stage is
actually OFFENSIVE.
This vanity project should never have been green lighted, and likely was done only because of ignorance; you won't really learn much about Puerto Rico here.
Boricuas deserve better....sorry,Rosie.
Description of Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas
The famous Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City jump-starts Rosie Perez's witty take on Puerto Rican culture. The parade marches to its own ecstatic beat, as does its people through triumph and indignity. Perez, the Academy Award?-nominated actress turned filmmaker, never lets the footing get too heavy. She and codirector Oscar?-nominated documentarian Liz Garbus enlighten through humor and Perez's own sparkling presence. Weaving snippets of Perez and her family with thought-provoking history narrated by actor Jimmy Smits, the filmmakers render a pastiche of unbridled optimism. The title is a contagious colloquial chant of the island's indigenous people, the Ta?no. Puerto Ricans do not doubt their identity, the subjects of the film tell us, but they are determined to let the rest of the world know who they are. Pride, often an overused word, comes alive in a documentary that goes down as easily as a frothy cocktail-and still packs a punch. American exploitation and the fight for political clout are no laughing matters but Boricua shows that toughness sometimes means laughing in the face of such obstacles. In one funny bit, Perez encounters an acute case of mistaken perception on her way to a speaking engagement. As her brethren illustrate throughout the film, the show must go on. Puerto Ricans' contributions to the arts and their inextricable link to New York City (Perez grew up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, just so you know!) reveal the beating heart of a small island whose arteries course throughout society. - Ron DickerGeneral DVDs
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