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Birth of Dominican Cinema (Puerto Plata)
The Teatro Curiel of the northern city of Puerto Plata offers an exhibition of the Cinematograph Lumière. -
Rafael Colorado
He filmed excursion from José de Diego to Santo Domingo, first film shot in Dominican Republic by a foreigner. -
First Dominican fiction film
The first film called The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia -
Performing a comedy with naive tints
The ambushes of Cupid consists of five acts and tells the story of two lovers whose relationship is opposed by the father of the bride, who come to a fun ploy to achieve the consent of the Francisco Antonio Palau -
The first film voiced is a news update
. Cinema is adopted by the mass media as an ideological instrument. For that reason, in the thirty years of tyranny only documentary works are carried out on the country which exalt the tyrant and his relatives. -
First feature film
Where he denounces the horrors of the Trujillo regime. After this film proposal takes place a lapse of twenty-five years until another Dominican product appears that testifies to the will to formalize a Dominican filmography -
Agliberto Meléndez, founder of the National Film Library
U Opera Prima A passage of IDA, product that becomes a real bet within what it means to make Dominican cinema -
Nueba Yol: Finally arrived Balbuena
The film de Muñiz is a great success of the public in the Dominican Republic and converts the comedian Luisito Martí, through its protagonist Balbuena, in the most successful character of the local cinema. -
The first feature film is made
Conceived as a political suspense film, the geographical space where history is inserted runs through a city under the heat of political struggles, with a traumatic electoral process as a backdrop. -
The third part of New Yol is made
Where he addresses another simple and hassle-free anecdote. -
Perico Ripiao de Ángel Muñiz
Nueba Yol III: Under the new law, where it achieves greater maturity on account of the mastery of cinematographic language, but without failing to assume the risks of previous productions -
José Enrique Pintor, rolls his opera prima The Victory Prison,
This film is an achievement in the constant search for a cinema of themes and situations that express the reality of the country. -
Luisito Martí is looking for an argument to integrate several characters in his artistic catalogue.
Madmen also think is his bet, and part of an idea of the comedian himself and his son Robert Luis, who takes advantage of several years of television experience in which both share responsibilities in a weekly humor program -
Progress continues with films
Lilis of Jimmy Sierra and code 666 of Elias Acosta, three products that attest to a will to create a stronger base for the emergent Dominican cinematography
