René Fortunato was born in 1958 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. René Antonio Fortunato) is a Dominican film director, screenwriter, and producer. Fortunato is best known for his historical documentaries on Dominican government-and-p... (Full Biography Below)
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René Fortunato was born in 1958 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. René Antonio Fortunato) is a Dominican film director, screenwriter, and producer. Fortunato is best known for his historical documentaries on Dominican government-and-politics. He began his career as a producer in 1985 with the production of In the Footsteps of Palau (Tras las huellas de Palau). Later in 1988, he gained national and international acclaim with the success of his version of the documentary April: the Trench of Honor (Abril: La Trinchera del Honor). Young was awarded the Pitirre Prize for Best Caribbean Documentary in the 1990 San Juan Film Festival. Rene Young was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He studied Social Communication at the University of Santo Domingo from 1982 until 1985. Simultaneously, he worked for several Santo Domingo, the show firms and stations in the different aspects of television and film production. From 1978 to 1987 he published numerous articles about film and television in the Dominican newspapers and cultural supplements. Fortunato''s first film, In the Footsteps of Palau, was a 20-minute short that told the history of the first Dominican filmmaker Francisco Palau. Who was active in the 1920s and was a seminal feature of the Dominican filmography. His second film, Frank Almánzar: Images of an artist, which was debuted in 1987 and that was about the Dominican visionary Bauhaus-trained engraver, illustrator and a cultural animator, Frank Almánzar. Then in 1988 he achieved national and international fame due to the success of his full-length documentary April: the Trench of Honor. The documentary won the Best Documentary of the Caribbean region, in the II International San Juan Film Festival. The documentary is an account of the political situation in the Dominican Republic, from the death of the dictator, Rafael Trujillo, in 1961, to the election of Joaquín Balaguer in 1966. Particular focus goes into the 1965 civil war and the subsequent U.s. military invasion. After the success of his documentary, Young went on to make documentaries about Trujillo, Balaguer, and Juan Bosch, the which bridge to Dominican history and politics from the 1940s to the 1990s.
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