For seven days each April, movie enthusiasts gather in Puerto Rico to watch comedies, documentaries and short films at the Rincón International Film Festival. Ramón Torres Santa, a filmmaker, first-year graduate student and native Puerto Rican, showed his 2015 short film “Panorama” Friday at the festival.
“It’s a story about two guys talking at the top of a house looking over the city skyline,” Torres Santa said. “They’re just talking about how bad the financial crisis is there right now. They’re talking smack about religion, how money is being [poorly] used.”
In an ironic and comical twist, Torres Santa said the two men actually turn out to be burglars. As someone who enjoys “smart comedies,” Torres Santa said great comics are the ones who “think about comedy as a way of being reflective — how to focus on bad things and make them better.”
Torres Santa, a Cinema and Media Production student, decided that moving to Boston and learning about filmmaking in an academic environment would be a great experience.
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