Jose Perdomo III

Jose Rafael III Perdomo Rodriguez (also known as Boogie or Boogietek) comes from a family of photographers from the Dominican Republic where his maternal grandfather Manuel Rodriguez, was the first professional photographer with a studio in his hometown Moca, in the decade of 1940's, and inherited to uncles and cousins who also devoted to photography spanned in the country. On the other hand, his paternal great-grandfather Rafael Perdomo, was the owner of a few Movie Theaters in the city of Santiago (the second largest city of the country) who later expanded the business chain to the city of Moca, and inherited to his granduncle Carlos Manuel Perdomo and his grandfather Jose Rafael Perdomo. Then, what over the the years remained as a family tradition, passed into the hands of his godfather Charlie Perdomo and his father Jose Perdomo, who later on, acquired the ownership of the Movie Theaters in the city of Moca, where Boogie (as a child) started to be around the office helping his father with the business. Over the years, since entering the decade of the 1990's and the rise of movie rentals, his father decided to protect themselves from the inevitable competition to the film industry and hence was born Boogie Video Club, where with his short age, Boogie became the head running the VHS movie rental business for eight years. All this short brief just wanted to highlight the tie Boogie have in the two artistic fields of photography and cinematography, because since childhood he has been linked and surrounded by movies and photos. At the age of 13, he took his first film related lessons in Santo Domingo, capital city of the country, which was based on concepts of editing, when he was the only child among the participants and was a lot of learning to expand his knowledge with such a young age. When turned 14 years old, granted access to a JVC Professional VHS camera and decided to make a short film with a bunch of children in the neighborhood where he lived; the film was called "La Selva Maldita" and was edited in-camera and the gunfire sound effects were applied by placing toys next to the camera microphone and the fake blood was created with ketchup. It had a cast of seven children acting within a small forest. In short, it was a remarkable and inspiring adventure and strengthens his early love for cinema and filmmaking. Unfortunately the original VHS disappeared and can only be remembered by the joy they lived in. In his path becoming an adult he passed through being a computer technician, graphic designer, print manager, advertiser and photographer, acquiring vastly experience and preparation as a freelancer in each career in Boogietek Graphic Workshop. By 2003 decided to go to college to pursue the career of Marketing. In 2004, moved to the internationally recognized Dominican School of Arts Altos De Chavon, to take an interim workshop of Commercial Photography, having as mentor the renowned Dominican Commercial Photographer Quico Valenzuela. By 2008, received his Marketing Degree from the O&M Dominican University. Later on, moved from the advertising and marketing industry to become Wedding Photographer with a very fast growth in the national market. Then on demand, he started to shoot wedding videos with an unique Film Look and personalized cinematic style to his editions in what now is Boogietek Photo+Cinema & Music Media. Having worked in New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the major cities of his home country, now moved with his family to Miami, Florida, where started to work firmly in the filmmaking, documentary and music media industry.