Sol Caribe and then?

November 23rd, 2009

Is the best documentary on merengue?

By Jose Rafael Sosa

Joseito Mateo y Johnny Ventura en el cierre del III Festival de Cine Global Dominicano.

The closing of the Global Film Festival filled the National Theatre a massive cheer and applause at national rate which is equal to the country itself.

Many speculations that circulated prior to the opening of Sol Caribe on the quality of film production, expressing doubts about his professional consistency. Sol Caribe surprised with a quality cast product, 12 precursors of national rhythm, orchestration of Jorge Taveras and counseling, among other Huchi Lora, who composed the closing piece (The Doors of the World) who plays the cast and that is in a job well done emotional and raised up the crowd on its feet.

Sol Caribe resulted in a documentary which raised the meringue to its highest position and testimonial audiovisual platform on a simple concept: the nationwide tour of twelve figures crucial national rate, an event that gave the noblest professional treatment to the big screen.

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Touched and Shalim, the Global Film Festival

November 19th, 2009

Cartel de Touched The film directed by Dan Neira, was a wise choice of opening its human character of family drama based on true events, the way it shakes the public sentiment.

The production has the power to remove sensitive innermost springs without falling into kitsch soap opera.

Honest film made with the necessary resources, appealing to a powerful human message when frustration and lack of directions of a mother is discharged with violence against a child in a wheelchair. The film celebrates hurts and values ​​all at the same time. Contradiction that shakes and beyond.

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Have we done so many movies?

November 6th, 2009

Nueba Yol The fourth anniversary of the portal www.cinedominicano.net will be held from next Monday at the film with the largest exhibition of cinema to a cycle of three days to remember the history of national cinema: 31 productions, including five feature films and 27 short films .

The sample is from Monday through Wednesday 9 and 11 in a series entitled "November smells Film" as a way to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the portal www.cinedominicano.net .

The features are: New Yol Balbuena finally arrived (Angel Muniz), Santi Clo Pod Christmas (José Enrique Pintor), Bosch, Border Imperial President (Rene Fortunato), The Suffragettes (Martha Czech) and Excess (Jose Maria Cabral).

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Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible) will shoot in the DR

October 16th, 2009

Ving Rhames y Alfonso Rodríguez Ving Rhames, who has concluded his participation in the new film by Alfonso Rodriguez, reveals that will shoot in the country for other productions.

The American actor has recognized this weekend in Santo Domingo emissions Invites its beginnings in the film, its successes and hard times and conflict. The co-starred in Mission Impossible, directed in the country for the filming of Alfonso Rodriguez, granted an interview with Bolivar Soto in the ruins of San Francisco.

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Rochin: "The State shall protect and sponsor the film"

October 8th, 2009

Roberto Rochín Bogota, Colombia. - The Mexican director Roberto Rochin, invited to participate in the XXVI International Film Festival Bogota 2009, urged states not yet have a law Film and mechanisms of material and institutional support to industry, to take the necessary steps to encourage the filmmakers and their projects.

The director of Purgatory, a triptych based on three stories of Juan Rulfo, who played with grace and skill in dense color management, which crosses the black and white color with a certain accent lighting, performances and rhythm, exposed the Mexican State has three direct funding mechanisms to managers and also allows private companies to sponsor films, in an amount that is deducted from income tax.

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Film Festival XI: its 2009 awards

October 5th, 2009

XI Muestra de Cine de Santo Domingo The jury of the XI International Film Festival announced the verdict of the competitive event.

He presented the award for best actress Ciguapa Anna Lizarán in "Outsiders" by the complex and emotional interpretation of two women separated in time immersed in the same tragedy. This award is sponsored by Claro-Codetel

Ciguapa Award for Best Actor for Ulrich Thomsen in the movie "Do not fear me" because of its versatility to represent a person with serious psychological disorders that affect their lives.

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"15 Minutes"

September 17th, 2009

With this short and the production process involved, Jose Maria Cabral consolidates his career with the production. 15 minutes is a short action which opens today in Acropolis

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"15 Minutes" would have cost 3 million, but left for 180 000

September 13th, 2009

Afiche del corto "15 Minutos". "15 Minutes", the latest film by Jose Maria Cabral, may have cost three million dollars, but the actual investment was 180 thousand dollars, thanks to all the volunteer work provided, without which the cost would have been more than two and a half million pesos. The actors and technicians have worked for art's sake, strictly speaking.

The Premiere of the film will take place on Wednesday 16 at seven pm in the Caribbean Cinemas Acropolis Center.

Cabral, director of the short that has the same length of its title, indicates that the production aims to bring a positive message to youth that often accommodates a life without service initiatives and solidarity for those who need it.

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Movies and themes highlighted in the Eleventh Dominican Film Shows

September 12th, 2009

Afiche XI Muestra Internacional de Cine de Santo Domingo Arturo Rodriguez 11 years ago, the result of a lawsuit and a shaft, founded the Film Festival of Santo Domingo, an event that has grown to become an important benchmark of quality cinema.

But there was always a complaint: the absence of Dominican film productions. This time it will not.

The program of competition and exhibition of the sample had (or had very little) local cinema. First because there are so many movies made 10 years ago and, second, what he was doing was going down the side of the comedy business.

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Hector Valdez filmed "The Bug"

August 20th, 2009

Dos de los protagonistas de El Fallo: el juez Galindez cuando joven y cuando es juez. It has been shot and is in post-production phase of the short drama The Verdict.

This is a film production was shot in the capital with a view to release in December and plans to travel to international festivals.

The director is Hector Manuel Valdez, who structured around three stories to a judge (Franklin Dominguez, who plays Dr. Galindez), chaired by a court judge a defendant to meet the judge's past (film by regressing the time when the judge was a college student.

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