Campamento Playas Pa’l Pueblo is the name given to a small circle of tents on the beach in Carolina, Puerto Rico, where a handful of environmental activists have lived for six years, weathering mosquitoes, storms and heat, to protest the development of a Marriott Hotel. United by a belief that that this unassuming beach belongs to the people, this tenacious ‘band of brothers’ have held off expansion of the hotel—despite constant pressure from Marriott managers—and the Puerto Rican government, which supports tourism.

In COMPAÑEROS DE LUCHA, filmmaker Juan C. Dávila moves into the camp and explores the unique personalities, deep passions and determination of the people who are fighting an ongoing battle to protect the beach. In the shadow of a multi-million dollar construction project, a ragtag group of concerned activists come together and show how the power of the people can defeat a giant.

	Campamento Playas Pa’l Pueblo is the name given to a small circle of tents on the beach in Carolina, Puerto Rico, where a handful of environmental activists have lived for six years.
The pristine beach in Carolina, Puerto Rico, next to the Marriott Courtyard Hotel.
	Graffiti art created to support the environmental activists living in Campamento Playas Pa’l Pueblo covers a trailer near the compound.
Daily life at Campamento Playas Pa’l Pueblo.

SRP: $19.95 | TRT: 58 minutes
Date Available on DVD & VOD Platforms: 11/6/2012
UPC: 881394116825| Catalog: CLS 1168
Genre: Documentary
English & Spanish with Subtitles

Campamento Playas Pa’l Pueblo is the name given to a small circle of tents on the beach in Carolina, Puerto Rico, where a handful of environmental activists have lived for six years, weathering mosquitoes, storms and heat, to protest the development of a Marriott Hotel. United by a belief that that this unassuming beach belongs to the people, this tenacious ‘band of brothers’ have held off expansion of the hotel—despite constant pressure from Marriott managers—and the Puerto Rican government, which supports tourism. In COMPAÑEROS DE LUCHA, filmmaker Juan C. Dávila moves into the camp and explores the unique personalities, deep passions and determination of the people who are fighting an ongoing battle to protect the beach. In the shadow of a multi-million dollar construction project, a ragtag group of concerned activists come together and show how the power of the people can defeat a giant.

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Juan Carlos Dávila Santiago, was born on June 20, 1988 in the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He studied Communications at Sacred Heart University in San Juan, the country’s capital. He made his first film in 2006, a narrative short called HÉROE DE GUERRA (WAR HERO) with a borrowed camera. That film, a criticism of the war in Iraq, won him a National Association of Independent Lationo Producers’ Film Slam Audience Choice Award.

In August 2007, he debuted two short films entitled TRAICIONEROS (TRAITORS) and LA ENTREGA (THE DELIVERY) at The Puerto Rican Athenaeum — or Ateneo Puertorriqueño in Spanish — which is one of Puerto Rico's chief cultural institutions. In 2011, he founded Frutos Fílmicos, a production company dedicated to producing films that create social and environmental awareness. COMPAÑEROS DE LUCHA (BROTHERS IN ARMS) is the first film Dávila has produced and directed for Frutos Fílmicos.

Dávila is now writing a screenplay entitled LAS VACAS FLACAS (THE SKINNY COWS), a narrative which explores the lives of different people in contemporary Puerto Rico, amidst corruption and criminality, and is in pre-production on several documentaries.

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