Piñero

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Piñero

Release Date: January 01, 2001

Year	:	2001
Slogan	:	«»
Genres	:	Drama
Production Companies	:	Burnside Entertainment, Lower East Side Films, GreeneStreet Films
Director	:	Leon Ichaso
Producers	:	Ines Mongil-Echandi
Writers	:	Leon Ichaso
RunTime	:	103 mins.

"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.