About the Festival

Mission
The Dominican Republic Global Film Festival (DRGFF) brings the best dramatic and documentary world cinema to the Dominican Republic, plays a leading role in nurturing and enriching its film culture, and brings cinema to a broad variety of audiences. The Festival seeks to raise awareness and deepen understanding of global issues through stories about events and people that have shaped our lives.

Goals

• To reach out to people from all walks of life and social backgrounds, and create opportunity for discussion.
• To reach out to students and young people and to give them the tools and the information to become engaged and concerned citizen of the world.
• To use film as a medium for enhancing social awareness, and for promoting constructive change.
• To offer business and creative networking opportunities to local filmmakers.
• To encourage art appreciation, enhance understanding of global issues, offer training in media arts as well as support the economic, social, and democratic development of the country.
• To raise awareness among film industry professionals of the desirability of the Dominican Republic as a shooting location as well as foster the professional development of domestic human resources in the field.

Future:

• Creation of year–around programming to support the core mission.
• Develop new programs to support local filmmakers.
• Creation of a Cinemobil program to reach out to poor neighborhoods and isolated areas.