GFDD-inspired Dominican environmental films screened at the DC Environmental Film Festival 2013
Washington DC, March 22, 2013
Two Dominican environmental productions were screened in Washington, DC, during the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, under the program Living Waters, Ocean Life, developed in a collaboration with GFDD/FUNGLODE’s Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF).
GFDD’s relationship association with the DC Environmental Film Festival started in 2011 with the enthusiastic participation of its Executive Director, Peter O’Brien, in GFDD and FUNGLODE’s first DREFF. It has since evolved in to this 2013 edition with the joint development of the program Living Waters, Ocean Life, intended to expand the participation and outreach of Spanish-speaking productions and audiences in the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital. To this end, the program took place at the GALA Hispanic Theater, one of the few theaters in the area dedicated exclusively to theatrical productions in Spanish, located in the diverse community of Columbia Heights, with a strong Latin American presence.
The program included the screening of two Dominican productions, 1) Our Backs to the Sea, and 2) The Growth of Lakes Enriquillo and Azuei: Environment, Social and Scientific Implications. Our Backs to the Sea isthe winner of the first Globo Verde Dominicano 2012 award, born from the DR Environmental Film Festival as an annual competition of shorts dedicated to environmental issues. The participation of its director, Armando Larrauri, in the DC Environmental Film Festival is part of the award that is stirring interest among young Dominican filmmakers in environmental production. Armando held a discussion and question and answer session with an engaged audience clearly impacted by the shorts and the issues presented.
GFDD/FUNGLODE and the DR Environmental Film Festival are planning to continue the collaboration with the DC Environmental Film Festival with other joint programs, both in the Dominican Republic and in the US, promoting Dominican productions and motivating Dominican documentary filmmakers.
Related Links:
www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org
http://vimeo.com/47258421
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Among the goals of the DR Environmental Film Festival (DREFF), is to include and support grassroots organizations and communities, schools and young people in general.
Marcos Diaz
A real Universal Community leader and spokesman for the core values of the UN Millennium Development Goals as it is the Dominican swimmer Marcos Diaz. He will meet a group of youth, who will have a swimming competition, at La Caleta. The expected goals of this activity is to offer an opportunity to youth of disadvantaged areas to interact with Marcos, and to get a better understanding for the role model that Marcos represents for Dominicans and the rest of the world, as well as a better understanding of the sea and this protected area of La Caleta.For more details about Marcos Diaz visit Dominican Get-Together in the Big Apple
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