Strong Puerto Rican women forced to flee the island after Hurricane Maria have bonded like family in a FEMA hotel in the Bronx. They seek stability in their new life as forces try to pull them apart.
Direction
Hallgren builds trust, captures raw intimacy.
Editing
Tight 36 min—no fat, all feeling.
Production
FEMA hotel becomes character itself.
Director
Nadia Hallgren
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hallgren, also DP on 'Becoming,' centers Puerto Rican women's voices rarely heard in disaster docs.
Shot in 2018, the film's FEMA hotel closings mirror ongoing displacement crises—Hurricane Maria's aftermath is still unfolding.
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