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Lolita

A Puerto Rican seamstress becomes firebrand revolutionary Dolores ¨Lolita Lebrón¨, masterminds the 1954 U.S. Capitol attack, and battles prison, heartbreak, and history itself to prove colonial chains can be shattered.

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Format:
Screenplay
Starring Roles For:
Jennifer Lopez
Melissa Barrera
Mishel Prada
In the Vein Of:
Frida
Milk
Harriet
Posted:
06/26/2025
Updated:
06/30/2025
Author Bio:
Aida Negrón is a Puerto Rican screenwriter, bilingual communications specialist, and decades-deep researcher of Caribbean history. Armed with an M.A. in Public Communication Journalism from the University of Puerto Rico, she leads Spanish-language strategy for Esperanza United, the nation’s largest Latina organization fighting gender-based violence. Aida’s writing champions Latinx voices that mainstream cinema often overlooks. After ten years excavating archives and oral histories, she completed LOLITA—a feature dramatizing nationalist icon Lolita Lebrón’s 1954 assault on the U.

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