Released

Melting Snow

Name: Melting Snow
Director: Janah Elise Cox
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-04-08T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 8 min
Cast: Pedro Pietri

20218mDocumentary

Overview

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.

#puerto rico #colonialism #woman director #exploited immigrants #white christmas #us imperialism