Félix Manuel Lora

Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Journalist and film critic. He has worked in several means of mass communication such as El Nuevo Diario, Listín Diario, El Caribe and CDN Canal 37. In 1996 studied screenplay and realization at the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Directed the documentary "Un Rollo en la Arena" (A Roll in the Sand) (2005) that includes the most important reflections around the film process in Dominican Republic. This documentary was exhibited at the Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Festival of New Latin American Cinema) in Havana, Cuba (2006). In 2007 published the book "Encuadre de una Identidad Audiovisual" that analyzes the evolution of audiovisual in the Dominican Republic. Also he published the book Cine Dominicano en la Mira: Catálogo 1963-2014, about the Dominican film productions in 2015. Felix Lora has made exhibitions about the Dominican cinema both in his country and abroad, including his participation as speaker at the Panel of Experts on Cinema and Cultural Diversity that took place in the XVI International Book Fair in Havana (2007), sponsored by the Founding of the New Latin American Cinema and the UNESCO Regional Cultural Office for Latin America. Represented to his country at the First Meeting of Latin American Documentarists that took place in Caracas, Venezuela on November 2008. He has been a member of the jury of the Funglode Prize of documentary of the Global Democracy and Development Foundation. Felix Lora also offers film appreciation workshops in several public and private institutions in his country. He is professor of the Social Communication career of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra and Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo. He works as a film critic for the TV program El Despertador, for the digital newspaper Acento.com.do, as well for his own website about Dominican cinema: cinemadominicano.