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.
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.
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.
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.
Seminario HD SLDR de Philip Bloom
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
MASTERCLASS con Philip Bloom
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.
During a layover in Buenos Aires, Maria Falkenmayer hear a nursery rhyme in Spanish that she recognizes and disturbs her. What does this young German woman know about this melody, the lyrics? Maria intends to find the answer and, in her search, she discovers the truth about her family, her origin and her identity.
Drei
Country: Germany
Year: 2010
After twenty years of marriage, Hanna and Simon's marriage is at a crossroads as they live in the past with little confidence in their future. They both fall in love with the same man without either knowing what is happening initally. When they finally find out, the three find an unexpected solution.
Halt auf freier Strecke
País: Germany
Año: 2011
Frank, 40, has a brain tumor and only has several months to live. He wants to spend what time is left to him with his wife and children in a small, recently built house. This is an emotional challenge for the entire family.
Schultze gets the Blues
Country: Germany
Year: 2003
Three miners in the small village of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany are forced to retire. One of them discovers America through his love of Cajun music. He travels to Texas alone then all around the south to Zydeco country of Louisiana.
Westwind
Country: Germany
Year: 2011
Westwind is the story of East German twin teenage girls at summer training camp in Hungary in 1988. One of the sisters meets and falls in love with a boy from Hamburg and begins planning her escape to West Germany.