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Globo Verde Dominicano Lab: Free Workshop from March 13 to 17 in Santo Domingo
The Dominican Environmental Film Festival and Globo Verde Dominicano Award are organizing a free film workshop from March 13 to 17, to be held at Funglode{s headquarters, with the title: “From Idea to Screen: How to Make Environmental Documentaries.” The instructor, director of documentaries and professor, Gabriel will work personally with each participant to help them develop their short film ideas, design main characters, write the script, choose a technical team and plan and
prepare content. The projects will be sent to the Globo Verde Dominicano competition.
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The Winner of the 2016 Globo Verde Dominicano Begins His Journey around International Film Festivals
Globo Verde Dominicano Award gets you one step closer to becoming an environmental filmmaker and achieving the goal of travelling around the world with your movies. In fact, the winner in the Short Films category, in addition to a $2000 gift certificate, receives a unique prize: the director gets to travel with his/her film to an international environmental film festival and the movie will screen at film festivals around the world.
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DREFF Celebrates World Anthropology Day with the Science Academy of the Dominican Republic!
February 16 is the World Anthropology Day and DREFF celebrated it with the screening of The Anthropologist in Santo Domingo. The event was co-hosted by the Science Academy of the Dominican Republic. The screening took place within the framework of DREFF’s program Year-Round Environmental Film Screenings Program, which seeks to foster and inspire dialogue, raise awareness and promote sustainable practices by showing a diverse selection of quality movies on critical environmental and
sustainable development issues and organizing discussions and workshops.
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GFDD Calls for a New Social Paradigm with Sustainable Tourism Playing a Key Role during the 55th Session of the Commission for Social Development
GFDD/FUNGLODE participated in the 55th Session of the Commission for Social Development which was convened from 1-10 February 2017, in New York, US. The Commission which opened on Wednesday February 1, under the priority theme “strategies for eradicating poverty to achieve sustainable development for all”, held its last day of negotiations on Friday February 10, when it approved three draft resolutions by the Economic and Social Council focusing on Africa’s development, youth and the
mainstreaming of disability in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Celebrating Love for the Environment on Valentine’s Day with DREFF
Hundreds of students of the Nazaret Community School (Centro Educativo Nazaret) in Hoyo de Friusa, near Bávaro in the East coast of the Dominican Republic, had a very different and fun Valentine’s Day this year. In collaboration with BeachCorps, EcoServices Dominicana, and FECOTUR, GFDD/DREFF co-hosted an environmental awareness activity, entitled “A Valentine’s Card to the Environment”, in which the children embarked in several arts and crafts projects to express how they
are loving and protecting their planet.
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The Sixth Edition of Globo Verde Dominicano is Already Open for Submissions!
The Dominican Film Festival (DREFF) is pleased to announce the sixth edition of the first audiovisual competition in the area of environment and sustainable development in the Dominican Republic, the Globo Verde Dominicano Award. This year’s competition will include 4 categories: Globo Verde Junior, Public Service Announcement, Short Film and Photography. In the categorie of fotography the selected theme for 2017 is “Art and Sustainable Development”. This year the deadline to apply
is July 31st 2017.
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PUCMM Students Discuss Who Really Pays the Price of Our Clothes
Business students of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in Santo Domingo enjoyed a screening of the film The True Cost on Friday, February 10th, within the framework of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF)’s Year Round program.
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Salomé Ureña School Hosts the Screening of Nana to Celebrate Dominican Month
In its mission to promote the knowledge and appreciation of Dominican culture as well as to inspire the enrichment of the film culture of the Dominican Republic and bring its unique brand of cinema to a wider audience, Gloal Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) partners with diverse institutions.
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GFDD/Funglode Announces 2016 Awards Winners
The event, held at the Art Gallery of Funglode, was attended by Marco Herrera, executive director of Funglode; Catherine Florentino, Director of GFDD/Funglode Awards, and jury members
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Steve McCurry in Santo Domingo: “Photography Is Not a Matter of Luck; It’s Training, Work and a Lot of Practice”
Master of contemporary photography, Steve McCurry is raising great expectations and passions during his visit to the Dominican Republic. Yesterday, hundreds of people queued from the early hours of the afternoon outside Funglode headquarters to attend the workshop for professionals and the master class open to the public organized by the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival, a GFDD initiative. Before the academic activities, McCurry – accompanied by filmmaker Denis
Delestrac – was received by GFDD/Funglode President Dr. Leonel Fernández.
