Educational Activities

Time: 9:00 a.m / 12:00p.m
Venue: Hotel Hodelpa Nicolas de Ovando – S1-AMBAR
Speaker: Iván Gaona

Intensive screenwriting workshop, focused on the script stages and essential tools for proper writing, accompanied by the Colombian screenwriter, Iván Gaona.

Time: 4:00 p.m / 5:00p.m
Venue: Hotel Hodelpa Nicolas de Ovando – S2-CIBAO
Speaker: ELOISA LOPEZ-GOMEZ

Panel dedicated to the professional vision on distribution that will explore general areas of distribution from the perspective of festivals and commercial and digital platforms.

Time: 6:00 p.m / 6:45p.m
Venue: Palacio del Cine Blue Mall – Sala 4
Speaker: RAMON CANDELARIO

Conversation with the actor Ramón Candelario, who accompanies us to explore the Dominican film industry, the representation of the Dominican actor in this space and the representation of the country brand in their acting roles.

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: Hotel Hodelpa Nicolas de Ovando – S2-CIBAO
Speaker: ARAIZA ESTRELLA, ELOISA LOPEZ-GOMEZ, SOFIA MARQUEZ Y ANTONIO SAURA

How can you enter the distribution of digital platforms? tips and trends, since for Dominican producers the main problem is not always the capital to produce a film but international distribution.

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: Hotel Hodelpa Nicolas de Ovando – S2-CIBAO
Speaker: PAMELA LUQUIS

Professional perspective of the short film industry, its production stages and development tips.

Time: 09:00 a.m.
Venue: Hotel Hodelpa Nicolas de Ovando – NEW HORIZONS
Speakers: IVAN GAONA

Panel focused on fiction scriptwriting, its techniques and its most necessary tools.

Time: 9:30 a.m.
Venue: Hotel Hodelpa Nicolas de Ovando – S1-AMBAR (SEGUNDO DIA EN HABITACIÓN)
Speaker: MARY LEONARD Y DUNJA FEHIMOVIC

A gathering of filmmakers and film students, to help consolidate the growth of the Caribbean film industry, bringing together a group of international filmmakers and academics to present their work and discuss ideas in a series of panels and roundtables. We will look for points in common shared by films from the region and its diasporas, as well as differences that mark the films, filmmakers, film traditions and landscapes of the film industry.

Time: 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Palacio del Cine Blue Mall – Sala 1
Speaker: PABLO LOZANO / FERNANDO BLANCO

MODERATOR: ALFONSO QUIÑONES

Exploration of financing tools from the experience of winners of the FONPROCINE Public Contest.

Time: 9:00 a.m.
Venue: Hotel Hodelpa Nicolas de Ovando – S1-AMBAR
Speaker: MARY LEONARD Y DUNJA FEHIMOVIC

A gathering of filmmakers and film students, to help consolidate the growth of the Caribbean film industry, bringing together a group of international filmmakers and academics to present their work and discuss ideas in a series of panels and roundtables. We will look for points in common shared by films from the region and its diasporas, as well as differences that mark the films, filmmakers, film traditions and landscapes of the film industry.

Time: 9:00 a.m.
Venue: Hotel Hodelpa Nicolas de Ovando – S1-AMBAR
Speaker: IGNACIO PÉREZ

Intensive workshop on the cinematographic soundtrack and how it serves as an emotional element to complement the narrative intention. we want to emphasize the same.

Duration of each event: maximum two hours.

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: Hotel Hodelpa Nicolas de Ovando – S2-CIBAO
Speaker: CIRO GUERRA

As a main objective, this panel will instruct them on how to obtain financial support for the creation of new audiovisual works as well as the opportunity for new talents to develop through the creation of these works.

Time: 05:30 p.m. / 06:45 p.m.
Venue: Palacio del Cine Blue Mall – Sala 1
Speaker: JOSÉ ENRIQUE RODRÍGUEZ / FELIX GERMÁN

MODERATOR: ALFONSO QUIÑONES

Conversation on film heritage which is part of the Dominican cultural heritage.

Time: 04:00 p.m. / 05:00 p.m.
Venue: Palacio del Cine Blue Mall – Sala 1
Speaker: Talentos de Agencia SDQ

Conversation about acting opportunities for new talents in the film industry, from the hand of well-known talents belonging to the SDQ agency.