{"id":126469,"date":"2019-05-20T14:46:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=126469"},"modified":"2019-05-21T15:21:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:21:36","slug":"dominicana-at-the-cannes-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/05\/20\/dominicana-at-the-cannes-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicana at the Cannes Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Cannes-Festival-DGCINE.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Cannes-Festival-DGCINE.png 750w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Cannes-Festival-DGCINE-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The director of the Films Agency in the Dominican Republic (DGCine), Yvette Marichal spoke of the successful participation of the Dominican Republic in the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Filmmakers from around the world are briefed on the incentives and pluses of filming in the Dominican Republic during the event that ends 25 May in Cannes, France. The Dominican Republic has its own booth at the festival. Several Dominican films are on the Cannes program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the ideal stage to promote the Dominican Republic as a film destination in the region,\u201d said Marichal. More than 12,000 film professionals meet every year in Cannes. She says the event is an opportunity for greater exposure of the work of Dominican moviemakers, to explore new frontiers, opportunities for co-production, creation and distribution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Marichal, other traveling as part of the official delegation are Omar de la Cruz, Carlos Cabral, Desiree Reyes, Francis Disla, Alan Nadal, Luis Arambilet, Danilo Reynoso, L\u00eda Chapman, Luis Cepeda, Armando Guare\u00f1o, Ana Iris G\u00f3mez, Pericles Mej\u00eda, Luis Rafael Gonz\u00e1lez, Katherine Bautista, Paula Cury Melo, Iv\u00e1n Bordas, Zamantha D\u00edaz, Schisell Joaqu\u00edn Mena, Marcos Moreno, Fernando Blanco, Karla Groizard and Mart\u00edn D\u00edaz Bello.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several Dominican films will be shown at Cannes. On Saturday, at the March\u00e9 du Film, \u201cLa fiera y la fiesta\u201d by Laura Amelia Guzm\u00e1n and Israel C\u00e1rdenas was shown at Palais G. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director Jose Maria Cabral\u2019s \u201cEl proyeccionista\u201d will be shown on Monday, 20 May 2019 at 3:30pm (French time) at Riviera 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the DR Global platform, an initiative of the Global Film Festival (FCGD), the Dominican film, \u201cColours\u201d is being shown. It is by director Luis Cepeda and had won the audience award during the past FCGB film festival in the Dominican Republic. The film is being shown on Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 2pm (France time) at the Palais G. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The documentary \u201cPor si vengo al r\u00edo\u201d by Fernando Blanco is participating on Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 11:30am at the Palais H. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/dgcine.gob.do\/web\/2019\/05\/dominicanos-gestionan-acuerdos-en-el-festival-de-cannes-para-mercadear-sus-peliculas\/\">DGCine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 May 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the Films Agency in the Dominican Republic (DGCine), Yvette Marichal spoke of the successful participation of the Dominican Republic in the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Filmmakers from around the world are briefed on the incentives and pluses of filming in the Dominican Republic during the event that ends 25 May in Cannes, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/05\/20\/dominicana-at-the-cannes-film-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126601,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126469\/revisions\/126601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}