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appearance of the Dominican cinema
The cinema appears in the Dominican Republic in the city of Puerto Plata. -
The first film made in the Dominican Republic
Cameraman Puerto Rican Rafael Colorado made the first film made in the Dominican Republic by a foreigner, titled "Excursion of Jose de Diego in Santo Domingo". -
The first film of fiction of the Dominican cinema
It became the first Dominican film. "The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia", with the collaboration in the texts of the historian Bernardo Pichardo. -
The installation of the regime of President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Marked from its beginnings as a dictatorial regime, it imposes a total brake on artistic and cultural manifestations, stimulating only that which is understood as beneficial for its purposes. For this reason, in the thirty long years of tyranny only documentary works of the country were carried out with the exaltation of the tyrant, his works and his relatives. -
Dominican Cinema in the thirty years of the dictatorship
In the thirty years of the dictatorship only documentary works of the country were carried out with the exaltation of Trujillo and its relatives. The filmmaker Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley (Papito), produced with the company "Cine Dominicano", thirteen documentaries for the regime. -
documental
The documentary filmmaker Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley (Pupito), who produces, with the company "Cinema Dominicana", thirteen documentaries on request for the state secretaries of the regime, with the direction of the Cuban Pepe Prieto, lives in his own flesh the rigidity of the prevailing political structure. -
Important event in the area of the documentary in the Dominican Republic
were presented, in the Teatro Olimpia, the work seven days with the town of Jimmy Sierra a documentary about the most significant popular artistic event that occurred at the time of the Government of Dr. Joaquín Balaguer held in 1974 and journalist José Bujosa Mieses titled Rumbo A Poder, a documentary of the 1978 political campaign that led to the triumph of the Dominican Revolutionary Party. -
The production of René Fortunato
"April the trench of Honor." and "The power of the chief." This genre of documentary film of high ideological content predominated until the end of the nineties. The exception was Agliberto Meléndez and his film "Pasaje de Ida"; A drama in feature film that was a blockbuster. -
Feature films of fiction
"A Passage of Ida" (1988), "Nueba Yol" (1995), "To Live or Die" (1996), "Four men and a Coffin" (1997), "Nueba Yol 3 ″," Perico Shingle "(2003)," Success by Exchange "(2003," Business Is Business "(2004)," Andrea "(2005)" The Prison of Victory "(2004)" The Madmen also think "(2005)" The Curse of Father Cardona "(2005). -
To live or die
It is conceived as a political suspense film, the geographical space where history is inserted runs through a city under the heat of political struggles on the basis of a traumatic electoral process. -
Four men and a coffin
It premieres four men and a coffin of the hand of Pericles Mejía, an active realizer of commercials who, taking their experiences in the advertising field, obtains the time, the investment and the vision to make the jump and to expose itself to the public scrutiny of showing a new Product when the sour taste was still in the taste of the public from the last experience. -
The Year Zero
The 2003 can be considered as the "Year Zero" for the Dominican filmography since it is where a constant is established in terms of the production of fiction films.
is the producer and filmmaker Miguel Vázquez who owes him the push in the new stage recorded in Dominican cinema at the beginning of the new millennium. Miguel with his debut opera titled Success by Exchange (2003), again offers a stimulus in the Creole production. -
Promotion of cinematographic activity
From the application of law 108-10 on the promotion of cinematographic activity in the Dominican Republic, an upward curve was immediately verified in terms of the production and cinematographic exhibition of Dominican Tapes.
Since 2012 have been developing more and more national films being the years of 2014 and 2015 the most favored years, which closed with 19 Dominican productions presented in Billboard. -
The promotion of cinema continues
The 2016 continues with a set of films that, in one way or another, try to establish the route by which the national cinema must travel, facing the challenges to come, supported by the law 108-10 on the promotion of cinematographic activity in the Republic Dominican Republic and guaranteed by the executions of the General direction of cinema (DGCINE).
