II Dominican Republic Global Film Festival - 2008
 

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II Dominican Republic Global Film Festival - 2008
 


The II Dominican Republic Global Film Festival (DRGFF) provides audiences with access to high quality cinema, using film as a platform to deepen understanding and broaden perspectives of global social and economic challenges. Thematic panels, roundtable discussions and question and answer sessions comprise an important component of DRGFF. They offer film enthusiasists, students, academics and the general public a space to share ideas and reflect on important issues presented in the films.

Calendar Paneles
Water Crisis
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Higüey: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 11:40 AM
Teatro Nacional: Thrusday, 20 de November, 2008 - 11:45 AM
UASD: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 5:40 PM

Participants: Héctor Rodríguez Pimentel, director of Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos (INDRHI); Juan José Gómez M., National Diector, Aguas de Unidad, R. D.; Steven Starr, Producer of award-winning documentary FLOW: For Love of Water, Laura Wyant, director of the NGO Water for People;


HIV/AIDS

direccion   Teatro Nacional Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 11:45 AM
UASD: Thrusday, 20 de November, 2008 - 6:45 PM
Santiago: Friday, November 21, 2008 - 11:45 AM

Participants: Chuck Zymanski and German Agudelo, Population Services International (PSI); Sara Menéndez, CSD & HIV/AIDS officer, UNICEF ; Representative of the Consejo Presidencial del SIDA, (Coopresida); Patrick Donnelly, member of the organization Nyumbani; Arelis Batista, DIGBCITSS.
 

Women Human Rights

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Nagua: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 11:30 AM
Higüey: Friday, November 21, 2008 - 11:30 AM

Speaker: Sibel Berzeg, Director, Social Civil Division, ONG Counterpart International

Women as Agents of Change

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FUNGLODE: Thrusday, November 20, 2008 - 9:00 PM

Participant: Isaac Isitan, director of film, Women of Brukman; Alejandrina Germán, secretaria de Estado de la Mujer.

Domestic Violence

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Teatro Nacional: Friday, November 21, 2008 - 12 PM

Participant: Ken Kokin, Producer, Captain Abu Raed; Rana Sultan, Actress, Captain Abu Raed.

 

Group Dynamics/Psychology

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Santiago: Friday, November 21, 2008 - 9:20 PM

Participant: Juan E. Fernández, Psychology Professor, Universidad Iberoamericana – UNIBE


Diversity/Globalization

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UASD Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 9:15 PM
Puerto Plata: Sunday, November 23, 2008 - 7:45 PM

Speaker: Alba Cruz-Hacker, Special Projects Director, Consulate General of the Dominican Republic in California; Claudio Carreras, photographer


Lebanese Heritage

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Nagua: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 8:45pm
Higüey: Sunday, November 23, 2008 - 7:45pm

Participant: Elvis Alam, Lebanese Syrian Palestinian Club

 

 

 

 
 

II Dominican Republic Global Film Festival - 2008