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Santo Domingo May 26, 2010

The “New York International Latino Film Festival (NYLIFF)” will show “Pedro de Bella Vista y su sueño,” the winner of the Short Films Competition, part of the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival. The NYLIFF will take place from July 27 to August 1st.

The “New York International Latino Film Festival (NYLIFF)”  will show “Pedro de Bella Vista y su sueño,” the movie film that took first prize in this year’s Short Films Competition of the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival (DRGFF).  The NYLIFF, to be held from July 27 to August 1st , will host Rodrigo Montealegre’s film, which won first prize out of a list of 31 short films.

Montealegre’s film tells the story of Pedro, a shoeshine boy, who has a dream of one day making a movie. The film is a series of conversations and discussions Pedro has with a film student about how to make his dream come true.

A recent graduate of New York’s Bard College, Rodrigo Montealegre returned to the Dominican Republic to be part of the film revolution going on there. Since he was a young boy, Rodrigo knew he wanted to be a filmmaker in his homeland where he was inspired by the enormous variety of local Dominican characters and situations.

Among the goals of the New York International Latino Film Festival (NYLIFF) is to give young filmmakers like Rodrigo, from Latin America as well as the United States, the opportunity to undertake audiovisual projects that express and reflect the lives and feelings of Latin America.

The goal of the Short Films Competition of the Dominican Global Film Festival (DRGFF) is to promote the Dominican short film industry and provide incentives for the creation and development of local productions while stimulating and enriching the country’s film culture.

The competition was also conceived to support the nation’s film community, to provide Dominican professionals with the opportunity to form networks and to increase the visibility of local productions among the national and international film community.
III Dominican Republic Global Film Festival - 2009