
Ray Figueroa
Writing
Biography
Ray Figueroa is a Puerto Rican filmmaker. He has worked as a writer, director, and producer of numerous films both in Puerto Rico and abroad.
Known For

Follow Reggaeton artist Nicky Jam's struggles to overcome drug addiction and rise to international success in this dramatization of his life story.
Nicky Jam: El Ganador

Juan Encarnación is a reserved jibaro with a violent past. When Pura, the woman he loves, disappears, Encarnación sets out on a path of revenge armed with his machete and his daughter, Patria, in his arms.
Once Upon a Time in the Caribbean

BRAVAS is a new eight episode drama series inspired by Latin urban music that follows three friends, Mila, Roja and Ashley, who seek to find their place in the world - at whatever cost.
Bravas

The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of age. When days later found the girl's body, horribly maimed in the back of the house of one of the most famous residents of the village, all Alsina Alvaro suspect as the perpetrator.
The House Across the Street

While a sixteen year old girl is possessed by an evil spirit, her mother tries to find help, but everything goes wrong with horrible consequences.
Exorcismo Documentado

125 years of music in Puerto Rico from 1893 to 2018.
Mas De Un Siglo

An experimental dance company integrated by overweight dancers pay homage to Botero's work in their latest production 'More of you to love.' Omy, the lead dancer, has to deal with his low self-esteem when he's asked to perform nude while being confronted with his faith, when his wife-to-be converts.
Ese olor a lechón
This documentary presents a sample of the musical education projects that respond to the educational, cultural, and community needs of our children and adolescents.
En el fondo de la música

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

An evangelical priest is forced to question the true reason why God has placed him on earth. With this in mind, the priest is invited to give a religious service in the state prison of Guatemala City, where he meets Beto, a young fisherman accused of killing a thirteen-year-old girl. The priest sees in Beto a chance to redeem himself and once Beto is released from prison, the priest decides to help him. The priest gives Beto job and shelter in the church, causing his family and congregation to turn against him. Convinced of Beto's innocence and affirmed only in his faith, the priest decides to help him at all costs. Until one day, an unexpected crime occurs in the surroundings of the church.
Fe
A story about three adolescents as they address the universal challenges of growing up in a time where drugs, sexual promiscuity, delinquency, and suicide seem to run rampant.
Antes de las once

A young samurai must choose between the life of the sword or quiet, family life.
The Sword and the Hairpin

A fairy gives a young man three wishes. He has already used two, but does not remember in what. Only one wish is left. What will he choose?
Irresistible

The deeds of a professional musician who abandons his trumpet and family to live the clandestine life of an armed revolutionary for Puerto Rican independence.
Filiberto

A young woman is brutally assaulted by gang members in the middle of Guatemala City. As usual, the authorities have no suspects or leads, leaving the girl to become one more victim in a society where thousands of women are assaulted every year. Jacobo, the victim's brother, along with Antonio, his best friend, decide in their frustration to extract some their kind of revenge.
La Bodega
A cybernetic relationship faces their first face-to-face encounter.
Si no está roto

The story of the Maya People through four stories which allude to important moments in the in its history over the course of the last half millennium. The central protagonist in all these stories is a young woman named Maya who witnesses the invasion of her homeland and must run away to survive. Then living a nomadic existence as a refugee across the centuries she experiences the sufferings of her people resulting from the loss of her ancestral lands and increasingly her cultural traditions.
Where the Sun is Born

Set during the civil war in 1980's Guatemala. A group of six men and a woman must find a way to work together to protect the village of Las Cruces from an impending military attack. The indigenous population of the area, inevitably is torn between their need to help and thoughts of fleeing, for self preservation.
Las Cruces, poblado próximo

A documentary about the iconic Puerto Rican revolutionary Ramón Emeterio Betances and his effect and validity in Puerto Rican 21st century.
El Antillano
Portrays the night in which Jessica Pacheco Calvente died as consequence of a stray bullet during the end of year festivities.