"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.

• DirectorLeon Ichaso
• Release5 October 2001
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 43m
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  5.864
  11 reviews
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  Burnside Entertainment, Lower East Side Films, GreeneStreet Films