Biography
José Rivera (born March 24, 1955) is a playwright and the first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award for the movie The Motorcycle Diaries. Description above from the Wikipedia article José Rivera (playwright), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

iGilbert
2021
Executive Producer
Gilbert is a lonely man who sees the world through the prism of his phone's screen. When a chance at a real relationship enters his life, can he truly...

The 33
2015
Screenstory, Story
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

On the Road
2012
Screenplay
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows...

Letters to Juliet
2010
Screenplay
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona cour...

Tales from the Script
2009
as Self
Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul...

Trade
2007
Screenplay
A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abduct...

The Motorcycle Diaries
2004
Screenplay
Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado h...

The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
1998
Screenplay
Told from Mowgli's point of view, it's the story of how a boy became a mancub and a mancub became a man.
The House of Ramón Iglesia
1986
Writer
Ramón Iglesia, the head of a Puerto Rican family living in Long Island, encounters difficulties fulfilling his dream of moving back to Puerto Rico. P...
Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde
N/A
Screenplay
Follows the true-life story of Cuban exile turned social advocate, Alina Fernandez, whose birth was the result of the tryst between Revuelta and Castr...
Counting by 7s
N/A
Writer
A young girl, who likes to garden, learns to open her eyes when something surprising happens. She will learn to swim against the tide by counting by 7...
La Bamba
N/A
Writer
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his g...
Molina
N/A
Writer
Based on the New York Times best-selling autobiographical book Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty.