{"id":475240,"date":"2025-07-15T20:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/smartfilms-arrives-in-the-dr-to-boost-talent-from-the-cell-phone\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T21:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:16:24","slug":"smartfilms-arrives-in-the-dr-to-boost-talent-from-the-cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/entertainment\/smartfilms-arrives-in-the-dr-to-boost-talent-from-the-cell-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"SmartFilms arrives in the DR to boost talent from the cell phone"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>.\u2013 The Dominican audiovisual industry adds a new platform with the arrival of SmartFilms<\/strong>, the renowned film festival made with cell phones, which lands in the country with the aim of democratizing access to audiovisual creation and fostering emerging talent.\n\nThis initiative, originating in Colombia and with a consolidated presence in Mexico and Paraguay, is presented as the most inclusive film festival in the world, allowing anyone with a cell phone and a story to tell to participate, regardless of their experience or resources.\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong> Movies and Series<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nUpon its arrival in the country, SmartFilms Dominicana will be led by actors and producers Evelyna Rodr\u00edguez and Danilo Reynoso, who are promoting the project as an opportunity to decentralize cinema and bring it closer to new audiences.\n\n“Three years ago we encountered this idea and fell in love with it. Since then, we have worked to awaken the creative spark that we all carry within us,” Reynoso pointed out.\n\nOne of the pillars of the festival will be “The Movie Route”, an academic tour that will visit 16 provinces of the country, including the National District, Santiago, San Crist\u00f3bal, Azua, Puerto Plata, Valverde, Saman\u00e1, Santo Domingo and La Altagracia. The initiative will bring workshops and talks to students, creators and film enthusiasts, with the purpose of training on audiovisual narrative using only a mobile phone.\n\nStarting July 28th, the categories and requirements for participating in the festival will be announced, open to professionals, students, and enthusiasts, with no age restrictions. The General Director of Cinema, Marianna Vargas Gurilieva, valued the proposal as a tool for creative inclusion: “From DGCINE we celebrate this initiative that connects with the heart of cinema: telling stories that move us, identify us, and transform us,” she affirmed.\n\nSmartFilms has received more than 8,000 short films in its ten years of existence, impacting more than 150,000 people in 25 Latin American cities. The festival has been awarded prizes such as the “Most creative and socially impactful SME” by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and “Brand with Purpose” by Forbes magazine.\n\nThe arrival of the festival in the country is supported by Asociaci\u00f3n Cibao, Caribbean Cinemas, M Studio, the Economic and Social Development Council of Santo Domingo, Expo Sostenibilidad, DGCINE and the Dominican Cinematheque, as well as the media support of Grupo de Medios Telemicro, List\u00edn Diario, De \u00daltimo Minuto, Front Stage and Cine Dominicano. The official presentation was held at \u00c1gora Mall, with the accompaniment of Ron Siboney, White Claw and Rueda Cine.\n\nFor more information about SmartFilms Dominicana, those interested can visit www.smartfilms.do or follow the festival’s social media on @SmartFilmsDominicana.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo.\u2013 The Dominican audiovisual industry adds a new platform with the arrival of SmartFilms, the renowned film festival made with cell phones, which lands in the country with the aim of democratizing access to audiovisual creation and fostering emerging talent. This initiative, originating in Colombia and with a consolidated presence in Mexico and Paraguay, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":475247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[40411],"class_list":{"0":"post-475240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cinema"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-15-at-8.53.45-PM-1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1ZDa","dum_api":{"author_name":"Arelis Suero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-41-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Entertainment"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-15-at-8.53.45-PM-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}