Angelica (2016 film)
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.[1][2][3] The effects and her journey on finding her identity and standing up for herself is portrayed along with her struggles throughout the movie.[1] It won an award at the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Feature in 2018.[4] SynopsisAngelica, an African-Puerto Rican, has spent her whole life fighting to affirm, legitimize and explore her Africaness inside her family and in Puerto Rico, a society that denigrates and dismisses her Africaness. A rare drama that looks at the color contradictions and consequences in Puerto Rico and throughout the Afro-Latin world.[5] Cast
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