Angelica is a Puerto Rico film made in 2016 by Marisol Gómez-Mouakad.
Based on colorism, sexism and racism, the movie centers on a girl with an Afro-Latino father and a white Latina mother who aspires to be a Fashion designer and faces discrimination from her mother.
[1][2][3] The effects and her journey on finding her identity and standing up for herself is portrayed along with her struggles throughout the movie.
[4] Angelica, an African-Puerto Rican, has spent her whole life fighting to affirm, legitimize and explore her Africaness inside her family and in Puerto Rico, a society that denigrates and dismisses her Africaness.
A rare drama that looks at the color contradictions and consequences in Puerto Rico and throughout the Afro-Latin world.