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Millie and the Lords / written and directed by Jennica Carmona.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: English, Spanish Publisher: [Brooklyn, N.Y.] : Si Se Puede Productions, LLC, [2015]Copyright date: ©2014Distributor: [Port Washington, N.Y.] : [Soundview Media Partners]Description: 1 online resource (1 video file (90 min.)) : sound, colorContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Other title:
  • Available from some vendors with title: Millie & the Lords
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Production credits:
  • Cinematographer, Shilpi Agrawal ; editor, Jennifer Sharp ; music, Michael Damon.
Awards:
  • Winner, People's Film Festival, New York, 2015.
Cast: Jessica Carmona, Mateo Gomez, Alfredo Huereca, Alex Hernandez, Cedric Leiba, Jr., Maria DiDomenico, Millie Tirelli, Carolina Ravassa.Summary: Millie and the Lords tells the story of Milagros Baez, a young, working class under-confident Puerto Rican woman whose life is changed for the better when she begins to learn about the Young Lords Party and her rich Puerto Rican history.-- Digitalia Film Library websiteAbstract: This is the story of Milagros Baez, a Puerto Rican woman in Spanish Harlem who long for a different life. While she spends her days and nights working at a local grocery market, she secretly fantasizes about going to college and becoming a writer. When she meets Mateo, a former Young Lord, her life is transformed. She finds an inner strength and passion that she never knew was there. Inspired by the model of the Young Lords Party, Millie is able to overcome her fears and become the woman that she was meant to be.
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Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.

Jessica Carmona, Mateo Gomez, Alfredo Huereca, Alex Hernandez, Cedric Leiba, Jr., Maria DiDomenico, Millie Tirelli, Carolina Ravassa.

Cinematographer, Shilpi Agrawal ; editor, Jennifer Sharp ; music, Michael Damon.

Millie and the Lords tells the story of Milagros Baez, a young, working class under-confident Puerto Rican woman whose life is changed for the better when she begins to learn about the Young Lords Party and her rich Puerto Rican history.-- Digitalia Film Library website

This is the story of Milagros Baez, a Puerto Rican woman in Spanish Harlem who long for a different life. While she spends her days and nights working at a local grocery market, she secretly fantasizes about going to college and becoming a writer. When she meets Mateo, a former Young Lord, her life is transformed. She finds an inner strength and passion that she never knew was there. Inspired by the model of the Young Lords Party, Millie is able to overcome her fears and become the woman that she was meant to be.

In English and Spanish.

Winner, People's Film Festival, New York, 2015.

Online resource; title from opening/closing credits (Digitalia Film Library, viewed October 20, 2019)

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