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  • Dozens of Students Celebrate International Day of Forests with DREFF and the National Botanical Garden

    Dozens of students from the educational centers, the Center of General and Service Studies (CEGES, for its acronym in Spanish) and the Capotillo Educational Center of Santo Domingo commemorated the International Day of Forests at the National Botanical Garden (JBN, for its acronym in Spanish) in an activity planned by the Dominican Agroecological Society with the purpose of strengthening and developing knowledge about the environment among children from vulnerable
    communities.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Dominican Night to Come Again to Washington In March as Part of DCEFF

    As part of the long-term partnership between the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) and the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF), Dominican Night, featuring screenings of documentaries produced on the island, comes once again to the United States capital. On March 23, as part of the long-running Washingtonian festival, this year in its 25th edition, the city’s E Street Cinema will host a screening of the winner of the 2016 Globo Verde
    Dominicano, the short film Ciclos by Hansel Ureña Espósito, as well as Death by a Thousand Cuts, directed by Juan Mejia and Jake Kheel, and Site of Sites, by Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada.

  • DREFF and Green Screen T&T to Promote Environmental Filmmaking and Sustainability in the Caribbean

    The Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) and the Environmental Film Festival of Trinidad and Tobago, Green Screen, are joining efforts to promote environmental filmmaking and sustainability in the Caribbean. Both festivals have incredible experiences and lessons learned throughout the years and now are ready to share best practices to increase their impact and scope of action in the region.

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