Adriana

History of Dominican Cinema

By Adriana Nicole Contreras

  • First appearance of the cinema in the country

    First appearance of the cinema in the country
    Teatro Curiel of the northern city of Puerto Plata offers an exhibition of the Cinematograph Lumière.

  • Rafael Colorado

    Rafael Colorado
    He filmed excursion from José de Diego to Santo Domingo, first film shot in Dominican Republic by a foreigner.

  • Historian Bernardo Pichardo

    Historian Bernardo Pichardo
    Performs the first Dominican fiction film,

  • Specialized magazine of black and white art

    Specialized magazine of black and white art
    Very much appreciated by the lovers of reading. After the two aforementioned film adventures, he enfrasca in a sort of documentary titled The Dominican Republic

  • Bernardo Pichardo

    Bernardo Pichardo
    Performs the first Dominican fiction film, The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia,

  • The ambushes of Cupid of F. Palau, J. B. Alfonseca and T. Báez

    The ambushes of Cupid of F. Palau, J. B. Alfonseca and T. Báez
    The film consists of five acts and tells the story of two lovers whose relationship is opposed by the father of the bride, who come to a fun ploy to achieve the consent of Francisco Antonio Palau,

  • Rafael Leónidas Trujillo

    Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
    It imposes a total brake on artistic and cultural manifestations, stimulating only that which it understands beneficial for its purposes.

  • Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley “Pupito”

    Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley “Pupito”
    It produces thirteen documentaries for the regime and its company Dominican cinema.

  • Franklin Domínguez

    Franklin Domínguez
    He rolls his feature film La Silla, where he denounces the horrors of Trujillo's regime. After this film proposal takes place a lapse of twenty-five years until another Dominican product appears that testifies to the will to formalize a Dominican filmography

  • Ship Regina Express.

    Ship Regina Express.
    The film shows a hard but human view of the fact, and despite the technical deficiencies, the camera work in a neorealist style made by Peyi Guzmán prints a strong expressiveness to the image.

  • Perico Ripiao de Ángel Muñiz

    Perico Ripiao de Ángel Muñiz
    It is the culmination of a process initiated with Nueba Yol: At last it arrived Balbuena and continued by Nueba Yol III: Under the new law, where it achieves a greater maturity on account of the mastery of the cinematographic language, but without failing to assume the risks of the previous Productions.