2012 Festival | Clara como el Agua
She's white. She's also black. Mostly, she's rejected.
2012 Festival | Clara como el Agua PBS Short Film Festival

Clara is the only light-skinned and clear-eyed girl in an all-black neighborhood in Puerto Rico. The children tease her endlessly, telling her that her father is some "gringo" tourist with whom her mother had an affair. However, her grandmother tells her a different story.
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