Latin Flavor Films Presents the most dramatic reality film ever made. The feature documents human trafficking in the Dominican Republic. Unscripted and using no actors, the dramatic events in 60
MILES EAST will blow your heart away. Set in Higuey, a small town in the eastern Dominican Republic separated from Puerto Rico by a 60 mile stretch of shark-infested sea, the film captures preparations being made for the next trip by Yola to Puerto Rico in whish 27 Dominicans risk their lives in search of better ones.
http://www.60mileseast.com/
(Clicks: 70;
Site added: Feb 19, 2008) ::
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La Cinemateca Dominicana abre sus puertas en el año 1978, bajo el nombre de Cinemateca Nacional. Desde entonces vivió momentos difíciles hasta su cierre en 1986, cuando fue reducida, sin mayores proyecciones, a un centro audiovisual del Museo de Historia y Geografía.
http://www.cinematecadominicana.org/
(Clicks: 74;
Site added: Oct 25, 2006) ::
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Félix Germán sabe lo que significa hacer cine en el país. Su participación en el proyecto de ‘Para vivir o morir’ (1996) le enseñó que una película no sólo se termina con buenas intenciones.
Ahora, ante su primer proyecto como director, se rodeó de técnicos capaces y con ellos llevó a escena un guión basado en varias historias del escritor Carlos Peña.
http://www.latinartmuseum.com/cardona.htm
(Clicks: 44;
Site added: Mar 1, 2007) ::
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2005-Dominican Republic-Comedy of Errors/Crime Comedy. This cute farce about crazy cousins takes its Elmore Leonard-style sun-baked plot a few degrees of latitude further south of Miami, to the Dominican Republic.
A simple, dumb, naive man with a kind heart is mistaken with a bank Vice President. His life is transformed overnight as he is surrounded with power, prestige, beautiful women and...problems with the law.
Un hombre simple, torpe pero de buen corazón, es confundido con el nuevo gerente de un banco y su vida se rodea de la noche a la mañana de lujo, poder, reconocimiento, bellas mujeres y... problemas con la justicia.
A great film, but a very dominican. The tale of a Dominican widower named Balbuena (Marti), who moves to New York searching for a better life. However, once there he encounters a troubled family reunion, difficulty finding a job without a green card, a wild relationship with another ex-Dominican, and a run-in with the law. Based on a popular Dominican Republic television character.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114015/
(Clicks: 61;
Site added: Feb 28, 2007) ::
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Nació en Santo Domingo tres años antes del ajusticiamiento de Trujillo. En 1988 realizó el largometraje documental ABRIL: La Trinchera del Honor, sobre la guerra de abril de 1965 y la intervención militar norteamericana de ese mismo año, el cual se estrenó en cuatro salas de cine de la ciudad obteniendo un extraordinario respaldo de público y crítica. Este primer largometraje documental dominicano y uno de los pocos en la región del Caribe, estuvo entre los dos mejores documentales presentados en el 10mo. Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, celebrado en La Habana, Cuba en diciembre de 1988.
The Price of Sugar follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people, challenging powerful interests profiting from their work. When he arrives in the Dominican Republic, he's warned against entering the sugar plantations where most of his parishioners live. Breaking a centuries old taboo, he discovers shocking examples of modern-day slavery intrinsic to the global sugar trade. On an island known for tropical beauty, tourists flock to escape winter and relax with little knowledge that just a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are toiling away in unseen plantations harvesting sugarcane most of which ends up in the United States. Cutting cane by machete, they work 12 hour days, 7 days a week frequently without access to decent housing, electricity, clean water, education, healthcare and adequate nutrition. Often they are stateless, with neither Dominican nor Haitian identity and virtually invisible in the eyes of the law. The Price of Sugar raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at what cost they are produced and ultimately, where our responsibility lies
http://www.thepriceofsugar.com/
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Site added: Nov 28, 2007) ::
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Portal y Directorio Dominicano