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  • Come Check Out the Sixth Edition of DREFF!

    The wait is over! The website for the sixth edition of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) is up, and everything you wanted to know about DREFF 2016 is now online! The website is a user friendly and innovative platform that will provide you with a vast range of information, from the movies that will be screened and venues, to master classes, workshops, and special guests that will be attending the festival from September 13 to 18.

  • DREFF Joins the World Bank Initiative Film4Climate

    The Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) is proud to announce its recent partnership with Film4Climate, an initiative launched by Connect4Climate, a global partnership program dedicated to raising awareness about climate change issues around the world created by the World Bank and a broad range of partners.

  • Death by a Thousand Cuts Screened in Washington, DC: “The ferocious and growing competition for natural resources is fertile ground for social conflict”

    The Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF), in collaboration with the DC Environmental Film Festival (DCEFF) and the Interamerican Development Bank (IBD), yesterday celebrated the screening of the film Death by a Thousand Cutsat the E Street Cinema in Washington, DC. Before a full house that required the opening of two screening rooms, the movie’s codirectors Juan Mejía Botero and Jake Kheel and producer Ben Selkow spoke with the
    public about the film and expressed their hope that it would serve to call attention to the implicated parties and generate dialogue between Haiti and the Dominican Republic as well as transnational solutions.

  • “Melania’s Plagiarism”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández

    Initially her speech was met with enthusiasm. Her personality radiated charm and elegance. The content of her address was convincing and its tone appropriate. The final round of applause offered proof that her message had hit its mark in the hearts and minds of those present.

  • Parents from the Dominican Diaspora Visit GFDD Offices in New York

    Wednesday July 13th a group of 16 parents attending the Social Justice Camp organized by Lidia Aguasanta, the Community School Parent Coordinator of The Children’s Aid Society’s Salomé Ureña de Henriquez Campus, visited the New York office of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD).

  • “My biggest advice – listen carefully”: GFN Interviews Natasha Despotovic

    The Green Film Network, association that brings together more than 30 environmental festivals from around the world – among them the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) – has just published an interview made to Natasha Despotovic, Executive Director of DREFF and the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD).

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