History of Dominican Cinema

First appearance of the cinema in the Dominican country

Aug 27, 1900

When the Teatro Curiel of the northern city of Puerto Plata offers an exhibition of the Cinematograph Lumière

Creation of New Cinemas

1911

It opens a new cinema in the capital, in the courtyard of the Casino of the youth, and in the open air, the cinema Landolfi that exhibited on the weekends and then increased to three sessions weekly.

The first national distribution company is created

1913

The Cibao Film company, based in Puerto Plata, owned by the brothers Carlos and José Geneva.

first film shot in the Dominican Republic by a foreigner.

1915

Puerto Rican cameraman Rafael Colorado filmed Jose de Diego to Santo Domingo excursion

First film recorded in Dominican territory

1915

Although the production of this was not Dominican, it was "excursion of José de Diego to Santo Domingo" by the Puerto Rican filmmaker Rafael Colorado. This story based on the life of Jose de Diego (1866-1918).

The first Dominican fiction film

1922

In the history of the silent Dominican Cinema, the works of the photographer and editor Francisco Palau, that together with Juan B. Alfonseca, the photographer Tuto Báez and the collaboration in the texts of the historian Bernardo Pichardo, carried out in the first fiction film Dominican

First official Dominican movie

1922

The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia

First Dominican comedy

1924

las emboscadas de cupido

trujillo

1930

The first use of sound was a news film about the inauguration of President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in 1930.

Film premiere of the Franklin Domínguez Chair

1963