Piñero was released in the year 2001。

"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the 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.

Piñero actors and actresses include Al D. Rodriguez, Charles Santy, Fisher Stevens, Giancarlo Esposito, Griffin Dunne, Jaime Tirelli, Mandy Patinkin, Michael Irby, Nelson Vasquez, Samuel Bruce Campbell, Talisa Soto, Vanessa Del Sol。