White Alligator (directing reel)
Mockumentary feature film White Alligator. Juanita Perez has left San Juan, Puerto Rico for New York City as part of a reality show that will chronicle her pursuit of an acting career. She is thrilled and hits the ground running. But she quickly encounters difficulty as a white Puerto Rican actor. The more she auditions, the more she discovers that people cannot reconcile her background with the color of her skin. She begins to discover an unhappy truth. As the industry and society try to place Juanita in the appropriate box, She is too white to be Hispanic and too Hispanic to be white. Directed by Raquel Almazan