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The History of Dominican Cinema from 1927 to the Present Day |
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| 1927 | ||||
| – The first sound film, Lucky Boy, is screened at the Independencia in Santa Domingo. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1930 | ||||
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| – A sound newsreel film is shot of the inauguration of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, whose dictatorship ironically marks a thirty year dearth of film-making in the republic – apart from documentaries exalting Trujillo. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1953 | ||||
| – Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley is imprisoned and tortured by the government for his series of 13 films about the 13 ministries of the government, which showed the poverty and starvation that was prevalent in the country. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1963 | ||||
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| La Silla (Franklin Domiguez) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1966 | ||||
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| 1975 | ||||
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Caen los remos (Carlos Figuero) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Primero de mayo (Jimmy Sierra) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Pescadores (Edison Rivas) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1979 | ||||
| – The National Film Library is established under the direction of Agliberto Meléndez. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1981 | ||||
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Carnaval y caretas (Peyi Guzmán) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Lumiantena (Martín Lopez, Max Rodriguez) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1984 | ||||
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Pasaje de ida (Agliberto Meléndez) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1986 | ||||
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– The National Film Library is closed. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1988 | ||||
| – Agliberto Melendez’s Un Pasaje de Ida (One-Way Ticket) is the first feature film produced in the Dominican Republic. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1990 | ||||
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Abril: la trinchera del honor (René Fortunato) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1991 | ||||
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El poder de El jefe (René Fortunato) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1994 | ||||
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Nueva Yol (Angel Muniz) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1996 | ||||
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Cuatro hombres y un ataúd (Four Men and a Coffin) (Pericles Mejia) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Para vivir o morir (Pepe Romay, Radel Villalona) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1997 | ||||
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Nueba Yol 3: Bajo la nueva ley (Angel Muniz) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2000 | ||||
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– The inaugural Santa Domingo film festival takes place. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Dominican Republic 2000: Other Films of Note |
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Piñero (Claudo Chea) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2001 | ||||
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Washington Heights (Claudo Chea) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2003 | ||||
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Éxito por intercambio (Miguel Vasquez) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Perico Ripiao (Angel Muniz) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2004 | ||||
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La Cárcel de La Victoria: El cuarto hombre (Jose Enrique Pintor) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Negocios son negocios (Jorge de Bernardi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2005 | ||||
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Andrea (Rogert Bencosme) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Los locos también piensan (Humberto Castellanos) [MORE] [ADD] |
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La maldición del padre Cardona (Felix German) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2006 | ||||
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Un macho de mujer (Alfonso Rodriguez) [MORE] [ADD] |