🎬 Documentary

Melting Snow

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Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white Christmas”—become a metaphor for the colonialist paternalism of America’s relationship to Puerto Rico.

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Year
2021
Runtime
8m
Genre
Documentary
Director
Language
EN

Cast

🎭 Documentary 🎬 Janah Elise Cox 👤 Pedro Pietri
puerto rico colonialism woman director exploited immigrants white christmas us imperialism

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Melting Snow has a runtime of 8m ( and 8 minutes).
Melting Snow was directed by Janah Elise Cox and released in 2021.
Melting Snow is a Documentary film (2021).
The cast of Melting Snow includes Pedro Pietri.

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