IV SHORT FILM COMPETITION
JURY

Martha Checo

Dominican documentary maker, Martha studied film at the Autonomous University of Santo Domino (UASD). She studied screenwriting for film and political documentary production at the International Film and Television School in (EICTV in Spanish) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (1989-1991). She went on to earn a Doctorate in the History and Esthetics of Film at the University of Valladolid in Spain (1995). Her latest documentary film, "Las Sufragistas" won FUNGLODE’s Max Pou award for the Best Documentary (2009); the Casandra Award (2009) for best Documentary and the Green Woman Film prize (2011) for Best Production.

She has written two essays on film and has made more than twenty documentaries and short fiction films.

Since 1990, she has been the representative from the Dominican Republic at the International Film and Television in Cuba.

Jacquelin M. Bello

Dominican Architect with a Post Graduate degree in Project Development in Film, Documentaries and Television from the Film and Audiovisual School of Madrid, Spain.
 
She is one of the most highly trained academics and professionals in the Dominican Republic in the areas of film. She has participated in the making of television programs, documentaries, films and music videos.

Ms. Bello was the director of the first International Short Films Festival of New Cinema (Nuevo Cine), President of the Jury of FUNGLODE´s Short Film Competition, Jury member of Berlin´s Short Film Festival, President of the Academic Foundation of New Cinema, Director and Founder of the Film Training Program for the Special Programs of Altos de Chavón, School of Design.

She is a professor of Film Production at the Altos de Chavón School and the Academic Foundation of the New Cinema.

Luis Rafael González

Luis Rafael Gonzalez, born in Santo Domingo, developed the Videotheque chain of stores. He organized events and film projects for the Culture Center of Spain and the Theater House. He is a founding member of the Santo Domingo International Film Exhibition and worked as Deputy Director of Programming and Diffusion (2004-2006) as well as Director General (2007-2011) of the Dominican Cinematheque. Mr. Gonzalez represented the Dominican Republic in the International Federation of Film Archive (IFFA) congresses in Japan and France, the Regional Congress of the International Federation of Film Clubs in Brazil and the First Ibero-American Congress of Culture dedicated to Film and Audiovisuals held in Mexico.
He also participated in the Dominican Film Law for the Promotion of Cinematic Activity in the Dominican Republic in its early stages.
He won the Les Films de L’Astre Screenwriting Competition for his script, “Dioses sin crepúsculo.” He has written other films scripts including “La mujer desechable”, “Ausente” and “Madre célula”, among other creative work.
Gonzalez has also participated as an industry representative in recent editions of the Cannes Film Festival. He is a member of the Dominican Film Selection Committee (CDSF in Spanish), which chooses the Dominican film to represent the country at the Oscars and other international competitions.
He has collaborated in the Festival of Film Fine Arts and the Dominican Global Film Festival.
He is currently the director of the Seventh Art Company and websites related to AluCine and The Art of the Film Script.

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SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

The objective of the IV Short Films Competition of the Dominican Global Film Festival (FCGD) is to promote the short film industry in the Dominican Republic; incentivize the creation and development of local film productions; stimulate and enrich the local film culture; support the film community and provide Dominican professionals with the opportunity to form professional networks and increase the visibility of local productions among the national and international film communities.

This innovative competition was designed to enable beginning filmmakers to create new work and have it shown on the big screen.
The eleven selected finalists will receive an accreditation from the FCGD and will go on to compete for the following prizes:

First Place: An iMac; the possibility of participating in the Guadalajara International Film Festival (Mexico), the International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) or the Havana International Film Festival (Cuba) with all expenses paid. The winner will also receive support to make his/her next short film under the auspices of the Dominican film production company, Panamericana.

Second place: A scholarship to study at the International Film and Television School San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (EICTV).

Third place: A 15-inch MacBook Pro

The competition is open to Dominican directors, residing inside or outside the Dominican Republic, between the ages of 18 to 40 years. The winners will be announced on the closing night of the Dominican Global Film Festival.
While the director of the short film entries must be of Dominican nationality, the shooting of the film can be done anywhere in the world as long as 70% of the actors and the film crew are Dominican.

The film must have been made sometime during 2011-2012 in any format of the director’s choosing. The short films must be at least 15 minutes long, including the credits.

If the original language of the short film is not Spanish, the film must contain subtitles in Spanish.

With this initiative, the Dominican Global Film Festival seeks to promote the short film industry in the Dominican Republic and increase the visibility of local productions among the national and international film communities.