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InteRDom Welcomes Fall 2016 Program in Santo Domingo
Scholars in the program come from American universities, but from diverse cultural backgrounds. The students attend the Naropa University, Colorado; The New School, New York; and from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri.

Celebrating Sustainable Fashion at DREFF 2016
The sixth edition of the DREFF, taking place between September 13-18 in eleven cities around the Dominican Republic, has planned a large celebration to support and encourage sustainable fashion, which seeks to respect humans as well as the environment. At the inauguration, to be held September 13 at the Palacio del Cine-Agora Mall in Santo Domingo, the DREFF has organized a full program that will celebrate and welcome, in grand style, a movement that emerged globally several years
ago and which seeks to encourage a more transparent and mutually supportive fashion industry, which gains more followers everyday.

Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Dr. Rajendra Pachauri in the Dominican Republic as DREFF Guest of Honor
The sixth edition of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) is proud to welcome Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize recipient on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as this year’s guest of honor. Dr. Pachauri will receive the highest recognition of the Film Festival, the Colibrí Award, for his outstanding academic and professional career. Born in India, Dr. Pachauri will attend the closing ceremony of the DREFF, to be held on
September 18th at 6:00 pm in Funglode. In addition to receiving the award, he will deliver the keynote address entitled, “Sustainability and Sustainable Development: A Challenge for all Stakeholders.”

Disneynature and DREFF Partnered to Screen Several Films on Global Biodiversity
This year, as part of the new partnership with Disneynature to promote global consciousness and appreciation for biodiversity, the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF), in collaboration with Caribbean Cinemas, will be showingMonkey Kingdom, Chimpanzee, African Cats, and Wings for Life.

Leonel Fernández to Present RD2044 in New York
The RD2044 project, an initiative of the Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode), will be presented in New York on Tuesday, September 27, during a visit to the city by former Dominican Republic president and current Funglode president Leonel Fernández.

“The Ouster of Dilma: An Act of Chicanery”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
Nobody accused Dilma Rousseff, the recently removed president of Brazil, of having committed an act of corruption. No voices were raised against her charging that she’d embezzled public funds for her own benefit. No one alleged bribery, subornation, or fraud.

GFDD to Partner with UNA-USA Council of Organizations to Launch Study on Civil Society and Development On October 5th 2016 at the Church Center of the UN
The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development in partnership with the United Nations Association of America (UNA-USA) Council of Organizations (COO), the Southern NY State Division of UNA-USA and the League of Women Voters will host a forum in conjunction with the release of a new study on Civil Society and Development, to be held at 2 PM on October 5, 2016 on the second floor of the Church Center of the UN, 777 United Nations Plaza (at 44th Street, between First and
Second Avenues), New York, NY 10017.

Landfill Harmonic, Winner of the GFN Award 2016, Hosted by DREFF
The winner of this year’s Green Film Network (GFN) Award – the Oscar of environmental filmmaking – has just been announced! Landfill Harmonic, the joint Paraguay/USA production directed by Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley, has been chosen from among 14 competing films representing various countries. DREFF is proud to be the first host of the annual Green Film Network (GFN) Award in the Americas. The film – screened during the opening ceremony of DREFF 2015 –
will again run during this year’s closing ceremony on September 18 in Santo Domingo.

“We Need to Ensure that Economic Development Reaches the Country’s Poorest” states GFDD Fellow Emma Fawcett during Publication Launch
GFDD Fellow Emma Fawcett was joined today by a panel of experts for the launch of the latest publication by the Fellows Program titled Challenges for Sustainable Growth through Tourism in the Dominican Republic at GFDD headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Official Announcement in Santo Domingo of the Sixth Edition of the Dominican Republic Evironmental Film Festival
All the details about the Dominican Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) were presented yesterday in the capital of the country, Santo Domingo, before a large group of journalists, environmental experts and friends and collaborators at the Colonial Gate 4D Cinema. The Chief Operations Officer of DREFF, Yamile Eusebio, and Omar Shamir Reynoso, Coordinator of GFDD environmental programs, spoke of all the details of this great celebration of environmental cinema that is held this year
from the 13th to the 18th of September in 11 of cities across the country.