II Dominican Republic Global Film Festival - 2008
 

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Actors, Directors and Producers from Films:

The Beyond

Bling: A Planet Rock

Cochochi

Iron Road

Captain Abu Raed

The Pope’s Toilet

The Path

Teo’s Journey

Ripple Effect

Fados

FLOW: For Love Of Water

Women of Brukman

The Band’s Visit

Sugar

Stranded: I've Come From a Planet that Crashed on the Mountains

Young@ Heart

Other Directors and Producers
II Dominican Republic Global Film Festival - 2008
 

Guests  
 

 


Captain Abu Raed
-Rana Sultan (Actress)
-David Pritchard (Producer)
-Ken Kokin (Producer)


Young at Heart
-Bob Cilman (Choir Director)
-Stephen Martin (Choir)
-Leonard Fontaine (Choir)
-Dora Morrow (Choir)
-Patricia Ervin (Choir)
-Stephen Walker (Director)
 


Sugar
-Andre Holland (Actor)
-Rayniel Rufino (Actor)
-Algenis Perez Soto (Actor)
-Anna Boden (Director)
-Jamie Patricof (Producer)
-Paul Mezey (Producer)
 


The Path
-Ishtar Yasin (Director)


Cochochi
-Laura Amelia Guzmán (Director)
-Israel Cárdenas (Director
)
 


Women of Brukman
-Isaac Isitan (Director


The Pope’s Toilet
-Virginia Méndez (Actress)
-Enrique Fernández (Director)
-Serge Catoire (Producer)
-Nelson Lence (Actor
)


FLOW: For Love of Water
-Steven Starr (Producer)
 


Teo’s Journey
-Lourdes García (Producer)
-Erick Cañeta (Actor)
-Andrés Márquez Muñoz (Actor


Fados
-Antonio Saura (Producer)
-Pedro Moutinho, (Cantante
)


The Band’s Visit
-Eran Kolirin (Director)
 


Stranded: I've Come From a Planet that Crashed on the Mountains
-Daniel Fernández (Actor


Emmanuel Jal: War Child
-Emmanuel Jal Jak Gatwitch (Actor)
-Oluwakemi Davies (Agent)


Pray the Devil Back to Hell
-Regina Boyer (Associate Producer)
 


Iron Road
-Anne Tait (Producer)
-Charlotte Sullivan (Actress)
 


La Zona
-Daniel Tovar (Actor)


Ripple Effect
-Philippe Caland (Director)


Bling: A Planet Rock
-Raquel Cepeda (Director)


The Beyond
-Lourdes Portillo (Director)


Panel: Creative Writing: Books to Scripts
-Mark Haskell Smith (Film Maker and Writer)
-Ken Kokin (Producer, Captain Abu Raed)
-Tom Lutz (Author and Professor

 


Panel: Women Rising: The Emergence of Latin Women in the Film Industry
-Kiki Meléndez (Presenter)
-Esther Goris (Actress)
-Dania Ramírez (Actress)
-Raquel Cepeda (Director, Bling: A Planet Rock)
-Lourdes Portillo (Director)
-Luis Nikkolas Rey (Agente, Alvarado Rey)
-Anna Marie de la Fuente (Escritora, Revista Variety)


Panel: Co-Production and Financing
-John Singleton (Director and Producer)
-Carol Bidault D'Isle (President, Media Fusión)
-Brett Ratner (Producer)
-Fernando Ramirez (Attorney at Law)
-Rob Aft (Autor
)


Panel: Do Filmmakers Make a Difference
-Nina Streich (Director Ejecutiva, Global Peace Film Festival)
-Philippe Caland (Director, Ripple Effect)
-Antonio Saura (Producer, Fados)
-Raquel Cepeda (Director, Bling: A Planet Rock
)
-Isaac Isitan (Director, Las Mujeres de la Brukman)
-Esther Goris (Actress
)
-Ken Kokin (Producer, Captain Abu Raed)   

 


Panel: Marketing and Distribution
-Millie Luna (Director de Desarrollo, Venevisión)
-Carol Bidault D'Isle (Presidente, Media Fusión)
-Marlene Dermer (Deputy Director, Los Angeles International Film Festival)
-Christy Haubegger (Agente, CAA)
-Luis Nikkolas Rey (Agente, Alvarado Rey)


Panel: The Art and Power of Film Critique
-Anna Marie de la Fuente (Chief Latin America Writer, Variety Latin America)
-Julie Salamon (Author and Film Critic)
-Arturo Rodríguez (Film Critic)
-Iván Pinto-Veas (Film Critic)
-John Anderson (Film Critic, Washington Post, Variety and Newsday)


Acting Workshops
-Juan Fernández (Actor, Acting Workshop - Spanish)
-Anne Tait (Producer, Acting Workshop - English)
-Charlotte Sullivan (Actress, Acting Workshop - English)


Master Classes
-Carlos Argüello (Dibujante, Master Class: Animation)
-Elba McAllister (President Cineplex, Master Class: Distribution)
-Mark Haskell Smith (Film Maker and Writer, Master Class: Screen-Writing)
-Lourdes Portillo (Director, Master Class: Documentary)


Special Presentation
-Rob Aft (Author, Special Presentation: The rules of attraction) 
-Amir Delara (Executive Director, Cima Productions, Special Presentation: Direct to DVD (Home Video))


Thematic Panels
-HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Gustavo Rojas; German Agudelo; Patrick Donnelly; Ana Delia Figueroa
-
Global Water Crisis: Hector Rodriguez; Steven Starr; Juan Jose Gomez; Laura Wyant
-Globalization and Migration: Alba Cruz-Hacker; Claudio Carreras
-
Women’s Human Rights: Sibel Berzeg
-Women as Agents of Change: Isaac Isitan; Alejandrina German
-
Social Psychology and Group Dynamics: Juan E. Fernandez
-Domestic Violence: Ken Kokin; Rana Sultan
-
History of the lebanese community in the Dominican Republic: Elvis Alam
 


Panel: Dominican Stars on the Rise Internationally
-Félix Manuel Lora
-Juan Fernández
-
Arturo Rodríguez
-
Kiki Meléndez
-
Hemky Madera


Dominican Stars
-Michelle Rodríguez (Actress)
-Juan Fernández (Actor)
-
Celines Toribio (Actress)
-
Claudette Lali (Actress)
-
Juan Delancer (Director)
-
Félix Limardo (Producer)
-Joan Giacinti (Producer)
-Alexander Estrella (Actor)


Media
-Claudia Ospina (Director, Revista Cinefilos)
-Luís Carlos Rueda (Director, El Cartel, Canal 13, Colombia)
-Natimil Abreu (Journalist, De aquí y de allá)
-Gregoria Moran (Journalist, De aquí y de allá)
-Alexandra Gelmi (Journalist, The Epoch Times)
-Leila Guenancia (Journalist working for Sony with the promotion of Sugar)
-Robert Lyons (Journalist working for Sony with the promotion of Sugar)


Guests
-Celeste Jimenez (Dominican Consul General for California and the Western Region)
-
Belinda Beauchamp (Dominican Consulate General for California and the Western Region)
-
Ivett Gálvez (Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematografica) 


Guests
-Astrid Fernández de Castro (Universidad de la Habana)
-Rolando Pérez Betancourt (Universidad de la Habana)
-Ulises Cabrera (Agente, CAA)
-
Hemky Madera (Actor)
-Fernando Ramírez (Attorney at Law)
-Shalim Ortíz Goico (Actor)
-Stacey LaMotte (Producer)
-Scott Mednik (Mystic Vision Entertainment LLC)
-Marc Johnson
-Jonathan Heine (CFO/COO, Mystic Vision Entertainment)


Guests
-Michael Jacobs
-Ruby Jacobs
-Ray Brandt
-John Hadity (Miramax/Disney)
-Nick Smith (Director General, Pinewood Studios)
-Paul Baker (Sales Director, Pinewood Studios)
-Jose Martinez (Vice President, Maya Entertainment)
-Pat Kaufmann (New York State Film Commissioner)
-Maritza Guimet (Executive Director, Florida Media Market)


  Guests
-Michael Tollin (Producer)
-Jaime Piña (Producer)
-Jerry Rudes (LVT Subtitling)
-Nefertiti Strong (Producer)
-Richard Pelzer II (President y CEO, MEGA Management Inc.)
-Marta Castro Anta (Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión)
-María Victoria Linares González (Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión)
-Daniel Diaz Torres (Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematografica)

 

 

 

II Dominican Republic Global Film Festival - 2008