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GFDD and FUNGLODE Launch the Second Edition of Globo Verde Dominicano Contest
Following last year’s successful Globo Verde Dominicano competition held as part of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival, the GFDD and FUNGLODE are launching the second edition of the Short Film and Public Service Announcement Competition.
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Globo Verde Dominicano is Extending the Period of Submissions until July 30
“I haven’t finished! I only have a little left!” These are some of the responses we have received from participants the last few days prior to the close of the First Short Film and Public Service Announcement Competition launched by Globo Verde Dominicano.
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GFDD to Coordinate Panel on Environmental Education Tool, Ocean in Google Earth, at Rio + 20
Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) is pleased to announce that it is partnering with Ocean in Google Earth and Mission Blue to present the panel: “’Ocean in Google Earth’ as an Environmental Education Tool: The Dominican Perspective,” during the Rio + 20 Conference in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
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DREFF Reaches New Heights with First-Ever Expedition to Pico Duarte
The Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival’s first-ever expedition to Pico Duarte exceeded expectations. Over the course of the four-day trek, forty-five students from three Dominican high-schools — Centro de Excelencia Media Profesora Cristina Billini Morales “Fe y Alegria”, Centro de Excelencia República de Colombia, and Centro Educativo República de Guatemala – had the opportunity to scale the Dominican Republic’s highest summit alongside Dominican professional
mountaineer and seasoned Everest trekker, Karim Mella.
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Environmental Documentary Screens to a Full House at FUNGLODE’s Auditorium
As part of its follow up to the very successful I DR Environmental Film Festival, GFDD and FUNGLODE hosted a special screening of environmental documentary Dirt! The Movie at FUNGLODE auditorium last Friday, September 16 at 7pm. The movie, which played to a full house, was the first in a series of monthly screenings by both institutions that will be dedicated to covering themes related to the environment.
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The First Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) Formally Opens
Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) and the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) will celebrate the opening today of the First Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival, which President Leonel Fernandez will attend.
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Director of Film to be Presented at the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) Wins Top Humanitarian Award
One of the invited international guests to the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF), an initiative of GFDD and FUNGLODE, has won a special humanitarian award in Canada for his climate change films and work with the United Nations.
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GFDD and FUNGLODE present the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival, September 8 – 11, 2011
Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and its sister institution in the DR, Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), announced the dates of a new initiative, the DR Environment Film Festival, which will be held on September 8 – 11, 2011, in Santo Domingo and Santiago, Dominican Republic.
