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.

This year, the winner of the 2016
Globo Verde Dominicano, the short film Ciclos by Hansel Ureña Espósito, will be screened at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) 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 Dominican Night, featuring screenings of documentaries produced on the island, and Ureña will have the great opportunity of attending.

This is a brilliant opportunity to contribute to the
enrichment of the Dominican Republic’s filmmaking culture and take its particular brand of film to a broader international audience, as explained by GFDD and DREFF director Natasha Despotovic: “The Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival has been closely collaborating with DCEFF for the past six years and continues to work to achieve its aims of offering information and projects that contribute to the appreciation of the Dominican environment and promote its sustainable use, while
promoting Dominican filmmaking internationally and providing development opportunities to young filmmakers in the country.”

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, will include 4 categories: Globo Verde Junior, Public Service Announcement, Short Film and Photography. In the category of photography the selected theme for 2017 is “Art and Sustainable
Development”. This year the deadline to apply is July 31st 2017.

The Globo Verde Dominicano Award is a unique opportunity for filmmakers, students and young professionals who want to venture into an uncharted area in the Dominican Republic -the creation of environmental audiovisual material- as well as to show their work to a national and international audience as part of each edition of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival, which is held every September, and at
other international festivals. To know about rules and registration check www.globoverdedominicano.org.

About DCEFF
The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) is the world’s most important event for premiering environmental films. Every March in Washington, DC, the Festival screens more than 150 films to an audience of more than 33,000 people. DCEFF’s programming includes
panels and social events, plus screenings in local museums, embassies, universities, libraries, and theaters. Founded in

1993, DCEFF is the largest and longest-running environmental film festival in the United States. It has become an important, participatory cultural event both during the festival and throughout the rest of the year.

About DREFF
Since its creation in 2011, the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival – an initiative of the Global
Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and the Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode) – provides the Dominican public with a platform for knowledge and debate on environmental and sustainable development issues as well as related challenges and best practices, while celebrating the Dominican Republic’s unique natural beauty and wealth.

When: March 23, 2017
Time: Death by a Thousand Cuts 6 pm / Site of Sites 8 pm
Where: E Street Cinema
– 555 11th St NW, Washington, DC 20004
RSVP: DBATC.eventbrite.com / SiteofSites.eventbrite.com

Related Links:
www.globoverdedominicano.org
www.dreff.org
http://dceff.org/