Cine Dominicano

In 1915 the Puerto Rican cameraman, Rafael Colorado, films the  first movie made in the Dominican Republic, Excursión de José de Diego a Santo Domingo. The first use of sound was a newsreel about the inauguration of Trujillo in 1930.

The beginning of the national cinema is attributed to Francisco Arturo Palau who, in 1922, filmed La Leyenda de Nuestra Señora de Altagracia.

Películas Films

Dreams Ensnared (1994)
Fuera Yanqui(1970)
In Search of a Dream (1997)

In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)
From the novel by Julia Alvarez about the Mirabal sisters, known as las Marisposas.  Click here to read more about them.

My American Girls: A Dominican Story (2000)
Aguas Limitadas (2000)

La Cienaga bajo la lluvia (1994)
The many emotions experienced in Cienaga,a poor neighborhood in Santo Domingo, when a hard rain fell on March 27, 1992 after many months of drought. The flood waters divide the neighborhood, bringing garbage through as it is washed out to sea. The people of Cienaga take this in stride, using the waters to wash away their own refuse, to cleanse themselves, and to play in.

El Circulo Vicioso (1998)
Ensayo (1988) ...aka La Cama
Fuera Yanqui (1970)
Jugada Final (1997)

Nueba Yol (1996)
Balbuena is a country bumpkin who mortgages his home in Santo Domingo to buy a visa and go to New York. He expects a promised land where the streets are lined with dollar bills, but finds an upside down world where immigrant parents are held in contempt by their Americanized children, where drug dealers are feared but respected as self-made men, and where honest work for someone without papers is almost impossible to find.

Nueba Yol III (bajo la nueva ley) (1997)
La Silla (1963)
First full-length film made entirely in the Dominican Republic. A fictional reflection about the dictatorship of Trujillo.
Trujillo: El poder del jefe I Trujillo: Power of the Generalissimo I (1991)

Libros y artículos Books and articles

Saez, José Luis. Historia de un sueño importado: Ensayos sobre el cine en Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo: Ediciones Siboney, 1982. (Out of Print)