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appearance of cinema
The first appearance of the cinema in the Dominican Republic took place in August in the northern city of Puerto Plata, where the Curiel theater in this city witnessed the Lumiere brothers' cinematograph -
foreigners in our cinemas
Puerto Rican cameraman Rafael Colorado did José de Diego's Excursion in Santo Domingo, the first film made in the Dominican Republic by a foreigner. -
religious cinema
In the film prehistory of Dominican cinema, the works of the photographer and editor Francisco Palau stand out. Together with the photographer Tuto Báez and Juan B. Alfonseca, he makes the first fiction film of the Dominican cinema: La leyenda de la Virgen de la Altagracia, with the collaboration in the texts of the historian Bernardo Pichardo. -
A young man highlighted in the cinema
Without having any work reference in the Dominican film world, a young man with a desire to make films burst onto the national scene with a product that surprised everyone for the grace and courage with which it was assumed. Ángel Muñiz took over the direction of Nueba Yol: Balbuena finally arrived. -
opera cinema
José Enrique Pintor, a Spaniard based in the Dominican Republic, shot his first feature La Victoria de la Victoria, the fourth man, a kind of prison plot with the leading role of the Spaniard Paco Luque, the Venezuelan Julio Mota and the Dominican Richard Douglas
