Kemel Jamís
Directing
Known For

For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but well-meaning spirits who help guide them through the lush jungles. The picturesque waterfalls and scenic mountainsides quickly give way to terror when Cliff and Cydney learn of a grisly murder that occurred nearby and realize that they're being followed by chance acquaintances that suspiciously fit the description of the killers.
A Perfect Getaway

A doctor desperately tries to save his wife and their 5 year old son after their vacation in the Bahamas takes an unexpected turn.
Extortion

Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
The Vessel
A man in his twenty-something is drinking his coffee when he suddenly sees a girl that calls his attention. She also notices him. The short is a love story between the two, and the coincidences of an important aspect of their lives that links them.
Mañana en el Café

When a driven HR exec loses her high-powered job, she travels to Puerto Rico in an attempt to save her career at a business conference. But as the trip quickly becomes a disaster and a hurricane shuts down the whole island, she meets a handsome world traveler who gives her a new perspective on finding passion in life and love.
Stranded in Paradise

In the 1930s, a Harvard educated Black Puerto Rican faces off with the white Chief of Police on the island over island-wide strikes. What happens next forever alters the future of the colonized island.
They Killed Pedro
Determined to restore her dying father's reputation, Ana travels to the remote town of Rosales. Decades ago, he settled there and opened his first free clinic for cancer research. He launched an illustrious medical career - and fell in love. Ana plans to celebrate her father's scientific and humanitarian achievements by transforming the old family mansion into a world-class museum. She will preserve his legacy, and also breathe new life into the forgotten Rosales. But the townspeople-now destitute and helpless-do not greet her warmly. Neither does the house.
The Condemned

The Díaz are an influential family who control much of the poultry industry in the island. Arcadio is the family patriarch, an authoritative and conservative man who rules over his family's destiny as he does over the chickens on his farm. Teresa, his eldest, left home during her college years to become an astrophysicist against her father's wishes. Now, after a 7-year absence, she returns home for a few weeks in order to reveal a secret long kept from her family and to invite them to her wedding with Daniela. But, once back, her intentions turn to dust when she finds herself trapped in the family's old habit of lying. No one in the family is as they seem, nor are they willing to unveil their true selves. Within this world of half-truths, Teresa encounters Andrés, her nephew, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome who shares her passion for the stars.
Extra Terrestres

Returning home to his native Puerto Rico after years away, 17-year-old Javi meets Luife and Kiki, two social misfits who flip his entire world upside down.
Summer of Three
Nathan, a successful photographer, has a secret from his past that haunts him. When he starts having blackouts and his friends show up dead, he is forced to confront his past and himself.
Demented

An intimate story about the unconditional love between a granddaughter and her grandfather, shaped by nostalgia, local traditions, and the things we lose with time.
Recao

One family faces crisis after their long-gone father returns, now a famous religious leader.
Orfanato de cafres

Luna is recently separated, but nobody knows very well if this is the case. His company is his dachshund. In the first scene, Luna listens to her brother talking on the phone about her, saying that she didn't treat her ex-partner well, because he's a great guy and she must have done something for that great person to suddenly leave her. "Look, do me a favor, I'm too old to listen to the advice of fourth-rate magazines, and I don't need anyone to tell me what I have to do, much less come save me," she tells him when he hangs up the call. . Thus begins the journey of Luna, her dog and loneliness at night in the city.
...bitch, company...
Sammy is a quiet and solitary man who lives from the drug business. The most important things in his life are his younger brother, who he is responsible for, and his horse. This short film reveals daily life at the marginalized spaces in Puerto Rico.
Mi santa mirada

A movie based on the famous novel "Las Camelias"
Las Camelias

Amalia is extremely shy, keeping her from socializing with people around her. The music that her neighobr interprets is her way of relaxation. An event brings the threat that the piano will be gone, putting at risk her intimate space of security.
Sonidos que trae el viento

Jorge has no money or insurance when his wife needs heart surgery, so he decides to rob a bank.
La espera desespera

Short film from Kemel Jamís
Nébula
Michelle says goodbye to everyone that's important to her before leaving the island of Puerto Rico for good.
Joel está imposible
A child is raised secretly by a gang of thugs in a junker without contact to the exterior. Through a dispute with his boss, he discovers there is an outside world that he does not know.