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The first appearance of cinema in the country
When the Teatro Curiel of the northern city of Puerto Plata offers an exhibition of the Cinematograph Lumière. -
First film shot in Dominican Republic by a foreigner
Puerto Rican cameraman Rafael Colorado filmed José de Diego's excursion to Santo Domingo, -
The first Dominican fiction film
The legend of the Virgen de la Altagracia, premiered on the night of February 16th, 1923. The enthusiasm of the team later motivates the realization of a comedy with naive tints -
Trujillo imposes a total brake on artistic manifestations
Stimulating only that which understands beneficial for its purposes. Cinema is adopted by the mass media as an ideological instrument -
el dramaturgo Franklin Domínguez
He rolls his feature film La Silla, where he denounces the horrors of Trujillo's regime -
Word-by-word translation
Agliberto Meléndez His opera Prima is a one-way ticket, a product that becomes a real bet within what it means to make Dominican cinema.Based on the bitter reality of illegal emigration. -
Ángel Muñiz, whose film Nueba Yol
It represents a laudable attempt to mint a marketable product at both the local and external levels. The film by Muñiz is a great success of the public in the Dominican Republic -
Angel Muñiz
es la culminación de un proceso iniciado con Nueba Yol: por fin llegó Balbuena y continuado por Nueba Yol III: Bajo la nueva ley, donde logra una mayor madurez a cuenta del dominio del lenguaje cinematográfico -
José Enrique Pinto
The prison of the victory, the fourth man, of prison plot and with the roles protagonists of the Spaniard Paco Luque, the Venezuelan Julio Mota and the Dominican Richard Douglas. -
Andrea: Revenge of a Spirit
The film is originally rolled in digital format and is then transferred to 35 mm for display; It is a tape of supernatural terror of -
Luisito Martí
Comedian and musician Luisito Martí is looking for an argument to integrate several characters from his artistic catalogue -
Yuniol by Alfonso Rodríguez.
It is a Dominican dramatic film directed by Alfonso Rodríguez and starring Shalim Ortiz, Frank Perozo, Charytín Goico and Milly
