Melting Snow Poster

Melting Snow 2021

8 min📅 2021-04-08

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.

Director: Janah Elise Cox

Cast

Pedro Pietri
Self (archive audio) (uncredited)