Noemi Figueroa Soulet
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Noemi Figueroa Soulet is Producer/Director/Writer, along with Co-Producer-Director Raquel Ortiz, of the award-winning documentary film The Borinqueneers, narrated by the acclaimed actor Hector Elizondo. The film was broadcast nationally on PBS, on the Armed Forces Network to more than 850,000 U.S. troops overseas, and has had numerous screenings throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and internationally. The film won the Military Channel Award at the GI Film Festival, amongst others.
Noemi Figueroa Soulet began as freelance advertising consultant and producer to major advertising agencies for the Hispanic commercial market. A former professional actress, she has extensive experience in theater, television, industrial films and commercials for both the English and Spanish markets.
She served as Producer/Director and Writer along with Co-Producer-Director, Raquel Ortiz, of the award-winning documentary feature film, The Borinqueneers, narrated by the acclaimed actor, Hector Elizondo. The film was broadcast nationally on PBS, on the Armed Forces Network to more than 850,000 U.S. troops overseas, and has had numerous screenings throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and internationally. It participated in a number of film festivals winning the Military Channel Award at the GI Film Festival, a Best Puerto Rican Documentary award by the Rincon International Film Festival, a Best Professional Documentary award at the Real to Reel International Film Festival, and an Audience Award at the Orlando Hispanic Film Festival. As part of a special program celebrating 100 years of Puerto Rican cinema, the film screened at the renowned Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano in Havana, Cuba as well as at Casa America in Madrid, Spain.
Noemi has spent more than 25 years advocating on behalf of the Borinqueneers: collaborating with the Korean War Legacy Foundation to videotape veteran interviews in Puerto Rico, organizing a return trip to South Korea for 15 veterans and helping to lobby Congress to approve the Congressional Gold Medal on their behalf which was approved in 2014. She has written about the 65th and been published in The Graybeards Magazine, Hispanic Magazine and the Comité Noviembre Calendar Journal. Noemi continues to conduct film presentations on the 65th Infantry at universities, military facilities, corporations and community organizations. She serves as a Board Member with the Borinqueneers Park Education Alliance of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, a nonprofit dedicated to building a park in their honor. She also authored a coffee-table size book, The Borinqueneers, A Visual History of the 65th Infantry Regiment, which profiled the regiment’s history with more than 700 photographs. The book won several awards by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards; the International Latino Book Awards; the Florida Book Awards and the Military Writers Society of America, amongst others. For her work on the 65th, Noemi has been honored by the Government of Puerto Rico, the National Guard Bureau, Comité Noviembre and El Instituto de Puerto Rico, amongst other organizations.
Her other short films include: "The Priest's Wife" which won the Documentary Category at the Dig-It-All Film Festival and the Viking Film Festival; "Surviving the American Dream" "The Paramount Movie Palace";" Dancing to this Own Beat: Hip Hop Legend Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon" and "Native Poem".
Born in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, she was raised in Spanish Harlem and has a degree in Education from New York University and a Certificate in Digital Filmmaking from SUNY Westchester Community College. Noemi currently resides in Kissimmee, Florida.
