Eugenio Monclova
Acting
Biography
Eugenio Monclova is a Puerto Rican stage, film and television actor and director. He holds a BA in Acting from the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, and an MFA in Directing and Acting from the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).
Born: December 5, 1957
Place of Birth: Puerto Rico
Known For
Revolución en el infierno
Illustrates the events of the Ponce Massacre through the life of one of the victims, Ulpiano Perea.
El aquelarre
A man is convinced his pregnant wife is a witch and that she is carrying an abomination in her womb.
Celestino y el Vampiro
In Old San Juan a 40+ year old divorcée is not aware he befriends a vampire who bites women, not in their necks but in their derrières, leaving them with flattened behinds. A vampire hunter from Europe warns Celestino about his neighbor and tries to recruit his help in salvaging a much cherished national heritage. But there is a difficulty: this vampire will not die by a stake through his heart and to avoid destruction he wears tin underwear.
StartUp
A desperate banker needs to conceal stolen money. A Haitian-American gang lord wants to go legit. A Cuban-American hacker has an idea that will revolutionize the very future of money itself. Forced to work together, they unwittingly create their version of the American dream - organized crime 2.0.
Che: Part One
Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.
El detective Cojines
The story of a college professor obsessed with private eye novels who, following an accident, becomes a private investigator patterned after the movies and novels of the 40’s. Among the cases he investigates, three will come to him that will reveal a full range of intrigue and bizarre secrets.
A Flight of Hope
A comedy narrating the adventures of ten Puerto Ricans looking for a better life. The film centers on an airplane trip to New York during 1960's. It relates in a comical, yet poignant manner, the array of reasons each of the passengers has for leaving Puerto Rico and the challenges they face as suggested by the interactions of the Anglo crew and the passengers.
The Vessel
Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
El cimarrón
El cimarrón is a love story about a young African couple, Marcos and Carolina, that takes place in the slavery era at the turn of the nineteen-century in a Caribbean island. After several futile escape plans, Marcos finally escaped. Now free, he returns to liberate his beloved Carolina.
Imprisoned
Dylan Burke attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal with his true love Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden, Daniel Calvin, has not forgiven him for an old crime.
Filmography
as Don Vicente
as Nicholas Acosta
as Deacon José
as Tomas
as Emilio Cabrera
as Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
as El Vampiro
as Passenger visiting NY for the first time