Apparently, the crew filming the movie "Geechee" is mostly back in the USA after one of them was injured by bullets from the DNCD.
Its still murky what exactly were they doing at 11pm at night basically in the middle of nowhere. They claim they were looking for places to film certain scenes in the vicinity of Pinewood Studios in Juan Dolio. Dominican movie producers claim that no one searches for a place to film at 11pm. The group was 'discovered' in their rental vehicle by the DNCD agents. Rather then letting the guys approach their vehicle and proceed with the usual identification, they decided to speed away. The DNCD followed them and when it was clear they were not stopping, some gunshots from the DNCD targetted their runaway vehicle and in the process several of the bullets struck one guy on his back. Needless to say, the crew was shaken up, the wounded victim was taken to a hospital in Santo Domingo and quickly discharged since his injuries were not life threatening. As has already been said, the movie filming has been halted and most of the crew is now back in the USA. Supposedly an investigation is taking place by the authorities. The crew apparently had the permits to be roaming the streets at a time when the country is in a curfew due to the Covid situation.
Alfonso Rodríguez, who is one of the better known Dominican movie producers, claims that the only reasons for being in the streets at that time is to buy drugs or find prostitutes, that he doesn't believe the excuse of searching for places to shoot part of the film. This is a major issue because he thinks now this crew is going to spread in Hollywood that filming im the DR is not safe and is best avoided, putting a serious strain in the nascent Dominican film industry. He was also designated by Luis Abinader as the Dominican consul in California y pledges that his goal is to increase Hollywood filming in the Dominican Republic.
Alfonso Rodríguez makes the declaration at the beginning of this video (he's the one on the left in the video photo) in a declaration he made to a Santo Domingo based radio station.
Its still murky what exactly were they doing at 11pm at night basically in the middle of nowhere. They claim they were looking for places to film certain scenes in the vicinity of Pinewood Studios in Juan Dolio. Dominican movie producers claim that no one searches for a place to film at 11pm. The group was 'discovered' in their rental vehicle by the DNCD agents. Rather then letting the guys approach their vehicle and proceed with the usual identification, they decided to speed away. The DNCD followed them and when it was clear they were not stopping, some gunshots from the DNCD targetted their runaway vehicle and in the process several of the bullets struck one guy on his back. Needless to say, the crew was shaken up, the wounded victim was taken to a hospital in Santo Domingo and quickly discharged since his injuries were not life threatening. As has already been said, the movie filming has been halted and most of the crew is now back in the USA. Supposedly an investigation is taking place by the authorities. The crew apparently had the permits to be roaming the streets at a time when the country is in a curfew due to the Covid situation.
Alfonso Rodríguez, who is one of the better known Dominican movie producers, claims that the only reasons for being in the streets at that time is to buy drugs or find prostitutes, that he doesn't believe the excuse of searching for places to shoot part of the film. This is a major issue because he thinks now this crew is going to spread in Hollywood that filming im the DR is not safe and is best avoided, putting a serious strain in the nascent Dominican film industry. He was also designated by Luis Abinader as the Dominican consul in California y pledges that his goal is to increase Hollywood filming in the Dominican Republic.
Alfonso Rodríguez makes the declaration at the beginning of this video (he's the one on the left in the video photo) in a declaration he made to a Santo Domingo based radio station.
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