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Filiberto

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Filiberto is a feature-length biopic documentary about Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, a professional musician who abandons his trumpet and his family to live a clandestine, armed revolutionary life.

After becoming a strategic leader of groups notorious for their violent and dramatic acts to advance Puerto Rican independence, Ojeda Ríos turned into a mythical figure having different names for each circle of persons he interacted with. Filiberto draws upon personal interviews, as well as electronic wire-taps and photographic surveillance recordings of his underground life, to showcase counterpoint portrayals of the FBI's role in the hunt for Ojeda Ríos that ended in his controversial bloody death.

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