Dominican International Film Festival & Cinemateca Dominicana Announce Spanish-Language Film Program

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(Free-Press-Release.com) October 31, 2007 --

The Third Annual Dominican International Film Festival has announced the films selected for Cine Roma, their annual Spanish-language film program brought to you by Jet Blue and Crocs Shoes. This year, the program is excited to include a series of 10 short Dominican films sponsored by Cinemateca Dominicana, a cultural organization that promotes the culture and history of the Dominican Republic and overseen by our Spanish-language film curator Armando Guareno. This Spanish-language program continues the film festival’s commitment to showcasing films from Spanish-speaking countries and by Spanish-speaking directors and producers. This category is unique to the Dominican International Film Festival and an important part of the film festival’s mission to bring notoriety to the independent films of this region of the world.

The Spanish-language film program will consist of six feature length films from a variety of Spanish-speaking countries including Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The program will conclude with a showcase of short films exclusively from the Dominican Republic entitled, The Way We Are.

The films featured in this year’s Spanish-language program include:
*Pretendiendo (Pretending) – Chile, dir. Claudio Dabed
*La Nina en la Piedra (Girl on the Stone) – Mexico, dir. Maryse Sistach and José Buil

*El Clown – Puerto Rico, dir. Pedro Adorno Irizarry and Emilio Rodríguez Vázquez
*Espejismo (Illusion) – Dominican Republic, dir. Víctor Ramírez
*American Visa – Bolivia, dir. Juan Carlos Valdivia
*¿Qué Pasa Después La Coca? (Coca Lives) – Bolivia, dir. Roberto Lanza

The Dominican Republic short films featured in The Way We Are include:
Las Luciernagas, dir. Roberto Minervini
La Carta, dir. Francisco Alberto Rodríguez
La Enemiga, dir. Francisco Alberto Rodríguez
A Cien Mil, dir. Amauris Pérez
Amor Animal, dir. Robert Lizardo
Frente al Mar, dir. José Vásquez Grin

El Campeón, dir. Rafael Madera
La Ruta, dir. David Cavada
El Triste Precio del Olvido, dir. David Cavada
Bajo la Sombra de la Sangre, dir. José Gómez

The film curator and programmer for this year’s Spanish-language film program is Armnado Guareno, a native Dominican with a wide knowledge and expertise in the film industry. As the Founder and Executive Director of LaCinemaFe Film Festival, Guareno has a special interest and expertise in the Spanish-language film industry. Currently, Guareno is the Associate Producer on the feature film Red Passport and Producer Consultant of the feature documentary Maestro.

Passes to this year’s Dominican International Film Festival and special travel packages are available for purchase online through the film festival’s website. For more information, please visit www.dominicaninternationalfilmfestival.com.

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