Our Piece of Land / Nuestro Pedazo de Tierra

Director: Claudia E Quiñones Ramos, Ludimari Berrios, Andrea Carolina Delgado Villarrubia, & Diego J. Vera Acevedo

Producers: Carhianie J. Vargas Padín & Ludimari Berrios Batista

Country of Production: Puerto Rico

Date of Completion: 2023

Duration of Film: 30 Minutes

Our Piece of Land is a student-made documentary that explores the problem of food insecurity in the Puerto Rican archipelago during the years after Hurricane María made landfall. One of the inaugural documentary films produced by the Oral History Lab at University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this project uses historic footage to support contemporary interviews with farmers, mutual aid organizers, and government officials to provide insight into the gravity of food insecurity during and after catastrophe with a focus on the ways in which stratified disasters comprised of hurricanes, earthquakes, and the global pandemic—interwoven within the contexts of a complicated economic and political landscape—further eroded an already unstable local food system on the agrarian, production, and distribution level.

Our Piece of Land is a documentary for anybody interested in sustainable agriculture, climate and social justice, and the future of Puerto Rico and other communities facing climate change.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this documentary do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.