In addition to being organized by non-profit organizations, the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival is distinguished for its role in promoting the Dominican Republic as an excellent location to make and produce films, thus contributing to the country’s economic growth and competitiveness.
Mission
The Dominican Global Film Festival presents a selection of the best international, dramatic and documentary films to enrich the country’s film culture and to bring the seventh art to all sectors of Dominican society. The Festival contributes to raising awareness and understanding of global issues through stories about events and people that have left a mark on our lives. It uses film as a way to promote and encourage discussion about social issues, politics and economics.
Goals
To enrich the film culture of the Dominican Republic.
To show a wide variety of films that are generally not available to the Dominican public.
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6 Locations
14 Venues
Santo Domingo: Funglode, Teatro Nacional, Auditorio Pedro Mir (UASD), Palacio del Cine Blue Mall, Palacion del Cine Ágora Mall, Centro Cultural Mauricio Baéz, el Centro Cultural de las Telecomunicaciones y Cinemateca.
Santiago (CURSA), Palacion del Cine Bella Terra
Puerto Plata (CURA)
Nagua (CURNA)
Capcana
Haití (Puerto Príncipe)
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November 20
Inauguration of the First Fashion Film Showcase of the FCGDNovember 18
Screening of "Desconocidos" at Agora MallNovember 17
Farewell Party for Festival guests at the Jet SetNovember 17
"Mediterranean Blue" Screening at Agora Mall.November 16
view photo galleries
Screening of "Captain Thunder and the Holy Grail"
at Mauricio Baez Cultural Center
Michael D.Olmos, Youssef Delara
7:00 p.m. Teatro Nacional
Lucy Mulloy
7:00 p.m. Santiago (CURSA)
Gonzalo Justiniano
7:00 p.m. Nagua (CURNA)
Tom Gustafson
7:00 p.m. Puerto Plata (CURA)
Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos was born on February 24, 1947 into a Mexican-American family in California. Raised in Los Angeles, he dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player. While that did not happen, he burst onto the rock scene as a teenager and even enjoyed some fame in the local nightclubs around town.Luisito Martí
Luis Bernardo Martí Hernández, better know as Luisito Martí (1945 - 2010), was a Dominican comedian, producer and television presenter. He was known for his film role as Balbuena, a dreamer who dreamed of going to New York.
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Awards for the 4th Short Films
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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.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10
This is a one-day seminar with ample interaction with the participating public. Learn how to get the most out of your DSLR digital reflex camera, sound recording techniques, analysis of a piece.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 12 AND TUESDAY NOVEMBER
A Master Class given by the renowned British filmmaker, Philip Bloom. This will be two-days of intensive learning and interaction with the guru of HD digital cameras.
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The 3 Winners of our 4th Short Film Competition.
Subterráneo
El primer día
El prisionero 614
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Santo Domingo, Nov 20, 2012
Santo Domingo, Nov 20, 2012
Santo Domingo, Nov 20, 2012
(Santo Domingo, October 15, 2012) - More than 70 feature films and documentaries are confirmed to participate in the VI edition of the Dominican Global Film Festival (FCGD), to be held between November 14 – 21. The opening film in Santo Domingo this year will be Filly Brown, directed by Michael Olmos and
Youssef Delara.
This year’s date with world cinema in the Dominican Republic will take place in Santo Domingo, Santiago, Puerto Plata, Cap Cana, Nagua and Port au Prince, Haiti. As the guest of honor is Germany, Dominicans will enjoy the unique opportunity to get a closer look at a variety of this European country’s quality films.
The National Theater of Santo Domingo is the venue for this year’s gold carpet inauguration of the FCGD, to be held on Wednesday November 14. Following the parade of international and national stars, Filly Brown will officially open the Dominican Global Film Festival.
The following night, November 15, gala openings will also take place in
Santiago, Puerto Plata and Nagua with the participation of many of the Festival’s invited artists. In Port au Prince and Cap Cana, there will be film presentations on Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th.
Omar de la Cruz, FCGD Director; Yvette Marichal, Director of Public Relations and Marketing and Executive Director of FUNGLODE, Marco Herrera jointly made this announcement at a press conference in the Café Filo of the Juan Bosch Library. Others present at this activity included the Dominican General Director of Film, Ellis Pérez and Gabriele Weber, a Minister from the German Embassy in the Dominican Republic.
As part of this year’s Dominican Global Film Festival, for the first time ever, the Maria Montez Award will be given to the best Dominican film. The award, a cash prize of RD$200,000, is being given under the auspices of the General Direction of Film. This year, Agliberto Meléndez won the award for his feature film, Pasaje de ida.
The FCGD is bringing to the DR and Port au Prince a series of high quality films that have already 
been lauded at other prestigious international film festivals. The Festival also provides unique opportunities for learning, professional training and the creation of networks for the general public as well as for industry professionals through the various panels and workshops that form part of the Festival program.
The complete program as well as Festival news and happenings can be accessed through our bilingual website at: www.festivaldecineglobal.org
Throughout the Festival, the eleven finalists of the 4th Dominican Short Films Contest will be shown at all venues. The films are: "Prisionero 614", "Subterráneo", "El primer día", "Un pacto con la soledad", "El Fotógrafo", "Talion", "Mirada de payaso", "Amor en vano", "Desobediencia", "Sofia" and "Dago".
FCGD organizers also took the opportunity at the press conference to acknowledge support from the Embassy of Germany; Spain (through the Spanish Agency for International Development); Switzerland; the United State (through the Franklin Center) and the Dominico-German Center and Goethe Institute.
Sponsors:
Cap Cana, Claro, Colorín, Indomina, Palacio del Cine, Procomunicaciones, Ruiz Stereo Center, Seguros Constitución, Telemicro, AMHSA Marina, Grupo Corripio, DGCINE, Digital 15, Listín Diario, Hotel Occidente El Embajador, Panamericana Films, Palmera Pictures, Serigraf, Abasto & Servicios, Arturo Fuente Cigars, CCN, CTN, 22 Entertainment, Factoría Magazine, Group Metro, 91 FM, Martín Polanco, Pandora Magazine, Plaza Lama, Telemicro International, Ritmo Social, Zol 106.
Air Ocean, Amr Lighting, Burger King, Canal 25 Santiago, Centro Cultural de las Telecomunicaciones, Mauricio Báez Cultural Center, 97.7 Station, Las Américas Tech Institute (ITLA), Júpiter, Krispy Kreme, Mangu Music TV, Mayimbe TV, MEE, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MEESCyT), Ministry of Culture, Miravista, Musa Vision Canal 10 Puerto Plata, Papa John’s, Radio Listín, RAM Engineering, Global Magazine, RNN, Sousa Sistemas, TDN Canal 10 Nagua, Teatro Nacional, UASD, Sala de Espera Magazine, IGLOBAL, Metro S.T., William H. García Mercadeo and Video2Brain.
