Movie
"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.
Miguel Piñero
Miguel Algarin
Sugar
Tito Goya
Acting Inmate
Edgar Bowser
Reinaldo Povod
Miguel's Mother
Miguel's Father
Jake
Joseph Papp
Bodega Man
Bodega Woman
Shooting Gallery Man
Shooting Gallery Woman
Doctor
Miguel, as teen
Short Eyes Cop
Tutu
Angry Father (scenes deleted)