Now in its fifth year, the weeklong Dominican Film Festival in New York (DFFNY) celebrates the best in filmmaking and artistry from the Dominican Republic. More than a dozen films will be screened at this year’s event, which begins on Wednesday, 22 June 2016 with the US premiere of La familia Reyna (The Reyna Family), a comedy-drama centered on the complex relationship between love and acceptance. The festival ends on 26 June.
DFFNY highlights the most outstanding actors, directors, writers, and producers in the Dominican film industry, which is currently experiencing exponential growth as the Dominican government is investing heavily in filmmaking initiatives. The Dominican Republic has become an attractive destination for both national and international filmmakers to produce new projects. The films selected cover social issues often obscured in daily conversation, such as homosexuality, institutional corruption, sexism, and cultural tensions from a Haitian migrant’s perspective. The festival provides filmmakers with an important outlet for telling their stories.
The organizers of the Dominican Film Festival in New York made a point of ensuring that the venues would be as accessible as possible to the Latino community, by screening all of the films in the heart of Washington Heights. Films will be shown with subtitles, in a concerted effort to promote culture and art outside of the Dominican community.
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