2023-11-12 14:22:37
When the director of Dominican origin Gabriela A. Moses proposed her debut film, “Boca Chica”, she was clear that her duty was to make vindictive films that would reach the hearts of the public, and she got to work with a tough but real story. : that of the life of a 12-year-old girl involved in a sex tourism plot.
“Boca Chica” will be released in the Dominican Republic in January, and its director is confident that it will succeed because her goal was to “show the different sides of reality” and send a message “regarding a girl’s dream and her pain, because there is darkness.” regarding what is happening in this part, that of sexual tourism.”
The film addresses the situation of minors in the country, the hidden side of tourism in idyllic landscapes and the family impositions and social expectations of young people on their transition to adulthood.
“Boca Chica” won the Norah Ephron Award at the Tribeca Festival, following which this New York neighborhood is named.
Vindicative cinema
Moses has four short films behind her and defends that cinema has to be vindictive, because she is clear that she is “an artist and an artist is an activist too.”
In addition to that “the themes of the film are very important to say something and start a conversation regarding what is happening with girls and sex tourism in the Caribbean and in various parts of the world.”
“It is a very strong theme for my debut film, but very necessary,” according to the director, who has a lot of experience, despite her youth (33 years), in working with girls.
Although she was not the screenwriter, she was free to add to the script what she saw as necessary, “with different scenes and details with the screenwriters and with the permission of the producer,” Sterlyn Ramírez, from Celine Films.
“Boca Chica”, like many Dominican films, is the result in part of the Film Law that has been in operation in the Caribbean country for more than ten years, “which means that we now have a golden age” for filmmakers in this country, according to Moses.
In that context, he has a script in mind regarding a black girl with albinism, and is in the process of “finding this star” to make the film happen.
Director, writer and production designer born in New York to Dominican parents, Gabriela A. Moses, has been able to take her first film to the competition of the official section of the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, in Spain, taking as a secondary character the Boca Chica beach, a Dominican paradise “that is also hell for Desi”, the main girl.
The director explains to EFE that the premiere of the film in Huelva on Saturday was somewhat surprising, thanks to the formula used by this festival, which allows the public to talk to the team at the end of the screening, “and it was very exciting to see how we “They congratulated us and asked us things regarding the film as soon as we saw it.”
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