From ‘Nana’ to ‘Maria Montez’: 5 Must-See Movies at Dominican Film Festival New York
After a raucous screening of his box office behemoth earlier this year at the Havana Film Festival New York, La gunguna, Dominican director Ernesto Alemany gleefully told an audience that the DR’s film industry is booming. Indeed, ever since a favorable film law was passed in 2012, the Caribbean island has seen its output increase exponentially. Alongside this boom, the annual Dominican Film Festival in New York, established right around the same time, has been making inroads to showcase the strong work produced by DR’s directors this past decade.
For this year, the festival’s programmers have made sure that audiences get a diverse cross-section of the movies coming out of the DR. In addition to Alemany’s film, which will no doubt be a hot ticket at this year’s DFFNY, find Remezcla’s top picks from the fest’s varied lineup of art house cinema and more commercial fare. Whether you enjoy road trip films, colorful documentaries, or biopics set in 1940s Hollywood, we want to make sure you don’t miss this chance to see the best of this burgeoning criollo industry.
The Dominican Film Festival in New York runs June 22-26, 2016.
