Angelica

Country

Puerto Rico

How it feels

A teenage girl with an Afro-Latino father and a white Latina mother wants to become a fashion designer. She faces discrimination from her own mother and must find her identity while standing up for herself.

personal struggleemotionalreflectiveidentity focuseddramaticempoweringconfrontationalsocially minded

What happens

Angelica is a Puerto Rico film made in 2016 by Marisol Gómez-Mouakad. Based on colorism, sexism and racism, the movie centers on a girl with an Afro-Latino father and a white Latina mother who aspires to be a Fashion designer and faces discrimination from her mother. The effects and her journey on finding her identity and standing up for herself is portrayed along with her struggles throughout the movie. It won an award at the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Feature in 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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