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Hector’s Woman (La mujer de Héctor)

Directed by Ricardo Varona
Puerto Rico, United States
2021
18 mins

WarnerMedia OneFifty Latino Short Film Award

In 2018, a year after the landfall of Hurricane María, a young mother attempts to find herself as she wrestles with her responsibilities to her daughter and incarcerated husband.


Ricardo J. Varona is a Puerto Rican filmmaker based in NYC. He is a Miloš Forman Directing Fellow, Equity Diversity & Inclusion Representative, and MFA Directing candidate in Columbia University’s MFA Film program.

Sponsored by WarnerMedia and OneFifty, and by FlixLatino and ViendoMovies, available with Xfinity.

  • Year
    2021
  • Country
    Puerto Rico, United States
  • Language
    Spanish
  • Premiere Status
    Florida Premiere
  • Director
    Ricardo Varona
  • Cast
    Natalia Lugo, Alexon Duprey, Marisol Calero, Daliz Juliet Rivera Rosario, Ian Arduengo, Jorge Blanco
  • Writer
    Ricardo Varona
  • Cinematographer
    Eliot Grigo
  • Editor
    Ricardo Varona
  • Genre
    Drama, Social Issues
  • Theme
    Drama, Family, Latinx, En español

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