Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas' film Jean Gentil (2010)
is the story of a Haitian immigrant living in the Dominican Republic
and his daily life as he struggles to survive alone in the world of hard
work and increasing solitude. The film uses Cinema Novo/Neo Realism
reminiscent style of on location shooting, hand held camera and a
barrenness of stripped production makeover as its advantage to give
increasing sense of the isolation, poverty and many times hopeless
...
Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas' film Jean Gentil (2010) is the story of a Haitian immigrant living in the Dominican Republic and his daily life as he struggles to survive alone in the world of hard work and increasing solitude. The film uses Cinema Novo/Neo Realism reminiscent style of on location shooting, hand held camera and a barrenness of stripped production as its advantage to give increasing sense of the isolation, poverty and many times hopeless feelings of the main c...
Helen Dobrensky
saw the the avant Première of the dramatic film TROPICO de SANGRE,
illustrating the life and death of the three Mirabal sisters, on November 4th at UNESCO.
In 1999, the United Nations established the day of November 25th, as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of the three Mirabal sisters.
Ms. Dedé Mirabal still lives in the same household they all grew up. She has been responsible for keeping their le...
Tribute to Mirabal sisters:Photo by Alain ROBERT
RAINS OF BLOOD : The Fate of Dominican Republic`s MIRABAL Sisters
PATRIA, MINERVA, MARIA TERESA : How did three graceful sisters in their twenties, from a good family, happy housewives and moms, end up savageously bludgeoned and strangled to death, and dumped down a ravine in the idyllic countryside of this tiny Caribbean country, the Dominican Republic, in a mock car accident, some fifty years ago on November 25th, 1960 ...
BAHAMAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL NAMES 2009 FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS
Competition winners were announced this evening at the awards ceremony for the 6th Bahamas International Film Festival, held at the Balmoral Club in Nassau. The announcements were made by Festival Founder and Executive Director Leslie Vanderpool and BIFF jurors following a special career achievement event honoring Johnny Depp.
The Festival showcased 86 films from 26 different countries, including 38 fea...
Director: Rene Fortunato.
The documentary presents the most important political and social events that occurred during the administration of the constitutional government with popular backing, headed by Juan Bosch, in the Dominican Republic, during the first seven months of the year 1963. The military coup d´etat that overthrew the Bosch government, the foreign policy of United States President John Kennedy, and relationship of the United States with members of the military who overthrew regimes throughout Latin America, are subjects that occupy a large part of this documentary, made entirely with original images and sounds from that era.
Director Bill HANEY
In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, tourists flock to
pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed
Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting
sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens. They work grueling
hours and frequently lack decent housing, clean water, electricity,
education or healthcare. Narrated by Paul Newman, "The Price of...
