There will be a faint fragrance of Asia this evening. The National Theater will host the projection of the film Iron Road, as part of the programming of the II Dominican Global Film Festival. The evening is an homage to the Chinese community of the Dominican Republic and there will be a few surprises: a photo exhibition on the History of Chinese Migration and a dance show with traditional lions and dragons. The Flower for Everyone Foundation has called this event the great homage to Chinese culture in the Dominican Republic.

Iron Road tells the story of forbidden love set against the building of the transcontinental railway. To survive in China in the 1880´s a street urchin called Little Tiger disguises herself as a boy and dreams of sailing to “Gold Mountain” in search of her father who disappeared a long time ago. When James, the son of a Canadian railroad tycoon, arrives to recruit cheap workers, Little Tiger gets her chance. But, what should she do when she discovers that her superiors are stealing and that they are racists and that her fellow Chinese workers are dying in the mountains? And that she is falling in love with James.

Anne Tait, Charlotte Sullivan

The film was directed by David Wu and produced by Anne Tait who will be in Santo Domingo to give an acting workshop as part of the parallel activities of the Film Festival. Charlotte Sullivan, one of the actresses in the film, will also be in the country for the Festival.

Charlotte Sullivan was born and raised in Toronto. She landed her first role in playing opposite Rosie O'Donnell and Eartha Kitt in the popular family movie Harriet the Spy. She then went on to earn a Young Artist Award nomination for her lead role in Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist, where she played opposite Amy Brenneman.

Since then Sullivan has been cast as super villain Maxima on CW's smash hit Smallville staring opposite Tom Welling and Erica Durance. Charlotte has also played in several major Canadian series such as Blue Murder, Radio Free Roscoe, Puppets Who Kill, This is Wonderland and Platinum. Her most recent movie credits include How to Deal staring Mandy Moore, Fever Pitch staring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon, Cry of the Owl staring Paddy Considine & Julia Stiles and Iron Road staring Academy Award Winner Peter O'Toole and Sam Niell.

Anne Tait, casting director for Canadian CBC-TV before forming her own company, has several prize-winning feature films to her credit, including: Screamers, with Peter Weller, Scanners II with Michael Ironside, The Assignment with Ben Kingsley and Donald Sutherland, and For the Moment with Russell Crowe. She staged two of Peter O'Toole´s pieces in the Alex Royal Theater and was casting director for: Anne of Green Gables II, the seven complete episodes of Avonlea, the series Ready or Not, Goosebumps, and 17episodes of The Composers, Artists & Inventors Specials. She wrote Yeats in Love, produced in Dublin´s Abbey Theater. Currently she has two projects in development and continues to give acting workshops which she began 20 years ago.