Historia del cine en la Rep.Dom

By Miguel Steven

  • The first appearance of cinema in the Rep.Dom

    The first appearance of cinema in the Rep.Dom
    The first appearance of cinema in the country dates back to August 1900, when an exhibition of the Lumière cinematography is offered at the Curiel Theater in the northern city of Puerto Plata. In charge of the first presentations in the Caribbean is the industrialist Francesco Grecco, who travels throughout the area showing such an attractive invention.

  • rafael colorado

    rafael colorado
    In 1915 the Puerto Rican cameraman Rafael Colorado filmed Excursión de José de Diego to Santo Domingo, the first film shot in the Dominican Republic by a foreigner. In the history of silent Dominican cinema, the works of the photographer and editor Francisco Palau stand out

  • The film Prehistory of Dominican

    Cinema highlights the work of photographer and editor Francisco Palau, who in 1922 next to the photographer Tuto Báez and Juan B. Alfonseca, makes the first fiction film of Dominican Cinema: The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia , with the collaboration in the texts of the historian Bernardo Pichardo.

  • The film Prehistory of Dominican

    Cinema highlights the work of photographer and editor Francisco Palau, who in 1922 next to the photographer Tuto Báez and Juan B. Alfonseca makes the first fictional film of Dominican Cinema: "The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia" , with the collaboration in the texts of the historian Bernardo Pichardo.

  • the first Dominican film.

    Palau premiered on the night of February 16th, 1923, and became the first Dominican film.

  • "The Ambushes of Cupid"

    The enthusiasm of this team later motive the realization of a comedy with naive tints with the title of "The Ambushes of Cupid" (1924). This film, counted in five acts, narrated the story of a couple of lovers who did not have the consent of the father of the bride, and obliges the groom to make a funny plot so that the father can accept it. It was exhibited to the public on March 19, 1924.

  • The first use of sound was a film

    Of news about the inauguration of President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in 1930. This dictatorial regime installed by Trujillo since the year 1930 imposes a total brake on artistic and cultural manifestations, stimulating only what it understands beneficial for its purposes. Cinema, which in addition to art is an industry, had been adopted by the mass media in an ideological instrument.

  • Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley (Pupito),

    Only in 1953, the filmmaker Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley (Pupito), produced thirteen documentaries for the regime with the company "Cine Dominicano".

  • "La Silla"

    And it is not until 1963, that playwright Franklin Dominguez released his long film "La Silla", where he denounces the horrors of the regime of Trujillo.

  • Max Pou and Eduardo Palmer

    In 1967 Max Pou and Eduardo Palmer make two documentary works: "The effort of a people y "Nuestra history ".

  • “Un pasaje de ida” (1988)

  • “Nueba Yol”(1995),

  • “Para vivir o morir” (1996)

  • ” Cuatro hombres y un ataúd”(1997)

  • “Nueba Yol 3″ and “Perico ripiao”(2003)

  • “Éxito por intercambio” (2003

  • “Negocios son negocios” (2004)

  • “La cárcel de La Victoria “(2004)

  • Los locos también piensan” (2005) “la maldición del padre Cardona” (2005)

  • " Identity of an audiovisual framing "

    It also publishes a book that makes an investigation on the Dominican cinema by Jose Luis Sáez known as "History of an Imported dream, 1982, this work has been extended by the critic Felix Manuel Lora in his book" Identity of an audiovisual framing ", 2005.