President Leonel Fernandez met with movie producers from around the
world for nearly two hours yesterday as part of his program to attract
more attention to the Dominican Republic. Executives from Twentieth
Century Fox and Spyglass Entertainment were sided by local producers
Freddy Beras Goico and Juan Basanta at the meeting. According to
Basanta, the President guaranteed film companies an institutional
framework and the government’s collaboration and good will for future
projects. The meeting with film executives from India, Hollywood and
New York opens the possibility that the Dominican Republic could
become the next “Domiwood,” exporting films to the international
market.