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History Of The Dominican Cinema

  • First appearance of the cinema

    First appearance of the cinema
    The Teatro Curiel of the northern city of Puerto Plata offers an exhibition of the Cinematograph Lumière
  • Rafael Colorado

    Rafael Colorado
    He filmed excursion from José de Diego to Santo Domingo, first film shot in Dominican Republic by a foreigner.
  • Bernardo Pichardo

     Bernardo Pichardo
    Performs the first Dominican fiction film
  • The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia

    The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia
    Premiered at night
  • The enthusiasm of the team later motivates the realization of a comedy with naive tints

    The enthusiasm of the team later motivates the realization of a comedy with naive tints
    The ambushes of Cupid of F. Palau, J. B. Alfonseca and T. Báez anIt 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,d
  • The dictatorial regime

    The dictatorial regime
    Established by Rafael Leonidas Trujillo imposes a total brake on artistic and cultural manifestations, stimulating only that which understands beneficial for its purposes. The first film voiced is a newsreel of news footage about the figure of President Trujillo
  • Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley “Pupito”

     Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley “Pupito”
    It produces thirteen documentaries for the regime and its company Dominican cinema
  • Playwright Franklin Domínguez

    Playwright Franklin Domínguez
    He rolls his feature film La Silla, where he denounces the horrors of Trujillo's 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
  • Franklin Dominguez films his opera Prima a passage of Ida

    Franklin Dominguez films his opera Prima a passage of Ida
    Product that becomes a real bet within what it means to make Dominican cinema. Based on the bitter reality of illegal emigration
  • Ángel Muñiz

    Ángel Muñiz
    Without any work reference in the Dominican film world, a young man with a desire to make films breaks into the national scene with a product that surprises everyone for the grace and bravery with which it is made,Whose film Nueba Yol: At last came Balbuena
  • To live or die

    To live or die
    Conceived as a political suspense film, the geographical space where history is inserted runs through a city under the heat of political struggles,
  • Nueba Yol III:

    Nueba Yol III:
    where he addresses another simple and hassle-free anecdote. Adopting the strategy of obviating a second part by that which those "are not good", this new episode of Balbuena focuses on the weeks before a "black Tuesday", when a strong law of immigration regulation in the United States comes into force.
  • Success by Exchange

    Success by Exchange
    It arises when two years ago begins to archive experiences of models and artists interested in achieving success at any price.