Dominant Animals

An exploration of the side effects of toxic masculinity (“machismo”) on men of color and their families, “Dominant Animals” focuses on Felix Burgos, a Puerto Rican man living in Queens, who is currently in anger management in an attempt to rectify his wrongs and better the personal relationships in his life, especially between himself and his daughter, now a social worker, and his son, freshly out of prison. When he feels his world start to cave in, Felix grows more conflicted on how to escape, and forgive, his past mistakes and mindset, revealing the aftershock of growing up in a culture that often confuses the definition of what it means to be a “real man.”