Desiree Reyes de Ebribari Audiovisual de República Dominicana
Desiree Reyes, the producer at the Dominican company Ebribari Audiovisual, is at the Malaga Festival, working on several co-production projects with Spain.
“We are in the development phase with closed financing. At the moment we cannot give more details. This is part of an initiative that allows us to secure financing for films, which regardless of being Dominican, can expand collaboration, markets, and budgets with other sources of financing such as the Spanish ones,” explained Reyes.
For Reyes, who is attending MAFIZ for the third time, it is a very important festival for those making content in Latin America. “It is an opportunity to meet people -potential collaborators, the public, and the media- who are interested in the content we are making.”
She said that in the Dominican Republic, there is a significant local film audience. She mentioned that prior to the pandemic and for several consecutive years, they had the most important national market share in all of Latin America. “We have an audience that watches Dominican films in the cinema and that has repercussions on the other windows the film is displayed after the experience in movie theaters has been completed.”
She was satisfied with the results of the film El Brujo, produced by Panamerica and distributed internationally by Spanglish Movies, which premiered the first week of December 2022. “It’s in its fifteenth week on the billboard in Dominican cinema. It has been released in Puerto Rico and will soon be in theaters in Panama. It is cinema that doesn’t fit algorithms, having a dialogue with the public and recovering national cinema audiences for movie theaters.”
She added that in view of the fact that window times have been getting shorter because there are more and more films being released, “it gives the feeling that the products get old sooner for the public, so their premiere on pay TV, broadcast or platforms is being done faster. “That will depend on the film -each one has its own story- and on the circumstances of its sales,” she concluded.
