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Cousteau is the Star of Opening Night during Second Edition of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF)<\/STRONG> T<\/SPAN>he legacy of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, researcher and ocean-explorer, was the focal point of the Opening Night of the Second Edition of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF<\/A>), celebrated Wednesday, September 5 in the auditorium of Fundaci\u00f3n Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE<\/A>) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.<\/P> \u201cWe care for what we love. A healthy environment is the image of a healthy economy. We know what happens when we don\u2019t do what we have to. However, if we do what is within our reach, we can achieve incredible things,\u201d affirmed Cousteau.<\/P> The opening of the Festival, organized by Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD<\/A>) and Fundaci\u00f3n Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), featured the participation of Fabien Cousteau, grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who conveyed the pride felt by his family with respect to continuing the pioneering work of his grandfather and his team, for the benefit of the planet and future generations.<\/P> Following the screening of the film My Father, the Capitan: Jacques-Yves Cousteau<\/EM>, honored guest Fabien Cousteau was introduced by DREFF Director and GFDD Executive Director, Natasha Despotovic. <\/P> The opening film, produced and directed by son Jean-Michel Cousteau, provided audience members with an intimate look at the life Jean-Michel shared with his father and the legend he has taken upon himself to continue. In so doing, he hopes to shed new and meaningful light on the life and work of a man who inspired millions to reconsider our relationship with the sea and its creatures.<\/P> In his address to the audience, Cousteau urged young people and adults to preserve the natural environment, especially the oceans. He expressed that caring for the life that resides in the oceans must be a daily and constant responsibility carried out by all people.<\/P> \u201cWe care for what we love. A healthy environment is the image of a healthy economy. We know what happens when we don\u2019t do what we have to. However, if we do what is within our reach, we can achieve incredible things,\u201d affirmed Cousteau.<\/P> \u201cIt\u2019s about thinking differently, we need heroes willing to create community change, in a country.\u201d<\/P> Opening Remarks by Natasha Despotovic<\/STRONG><\/P> The director of the Second Edition of the Environmental Film Festival delivered the opening remarks during the inauguration of the event, expressing satisfaction regarding all that has been achieved with the Second Edition of the initiative. She underscored the quality of the film screenings, workshops and panels that will be offered until Sunday, September 9.<\/P> She also highlighted the important contribution of DREFF\u2019s partner institutions<\/A>, which have made it possible for the Festival to screen films and organize educational activities in seven cities in the Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo, San Francisco de Macor\u00eds, Santiago, Punta Cana, Ban\u00ed, Puerto Plata and Sos\u00faa.<\/P> The auditorium of FUNGLODE was full to capacity with scientists, activists, business leaders, students and representatives of entities working in the area of environmental protection.<\/P> DREFF 2012 will feature a selection of 24 documentary films:<\/P> 2 retrospective titles: (The Last Lions, Waste Land<\/EM>)<\/P> 3 Dominican titles: (Terra, Dominicana Bajo el Mar II, Discover La Vega: Pride of My Land<\/EM>)<\/P> 6 short films: (Anna, Emma and the Condors, Carbon for Water, Loretanos: Designing the Ocean\u2019s Future, Someplace with a Mountain, Wild Wealth, Yasuni: A Wild Idea<\/EM>)<\/P> 13 international feature films: (Big Miracle, Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life, In Organic We Trust, Life: Challenges of Life, My Village, My Lobster, My Father, the Captain: Jacques Yves Cousteau, Revenge of the Electric Car, Sea the Truth, Surviving Progress, Taste the Waste, The City Dark, The Whale, Vegucated<\/EM>).<\/P> The program of screenings is available online on our website at: http:\/\/www.muestracinemedioambientaldominicana.org\/programa_en.asp<\/A><\/P> All screenings are free and open to the public and all foreign films are subtitled in Spanish.<\/P> The First Edition of the Dominican Republic Environmental Festival was launched in September 2011.<\/P> Collaborators<\/STRONG> Related links:<\/STRONG> <\/P> <\/P> <\/P><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cousteau is the Star of Opening Night during Second Edition of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF)Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 09\/06\/2012 The legacy of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, researcher and ocean-explorer, was the focal point of the Opening Night of the Second Edition of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF), celebrated Wednesday, September 5 in … Continue reading “Cousteau is the Star of Opening Night during Second Edition of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 09\/06\/2012<\/SPAN><\/P>
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The realization of DREFF 2012 has been made possible thanks to support and contributions from our collaborators:
Centro Cuesta Nacional (Arrecife), Banco de Reservas (Colibr\u00ed), Fundaci\u00f3n Vida Azul, Panorama Verde, Odebrecht, Uepa.com, Uepa Radio, PUNTACANA Resort & Club, el Proyecto Nautilius, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of the Dominican Republic, Sue\u00f1os de Colores (Dreams in Color), la Revista Flow (Flow Magazine), el Centro Cultural Perell\u00f3 (Perell\u00f3 Cultural Center), the Embassy of Spain in the Dominican Republic, , Universidad Nacional Pedro Henr\u00edquez Ure\u00f1a (UNPHU) (Pedro Henr\u00edquez Ure\u00f1a National University), the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic, Cl\u00faster Tur\u00edstico del Destino Puerto Plata (Tourism Cluster Destination Puerto Plata), la Universidad Cat\u00f3lica Nordestana de San Francisco de Macor\u00eds (Catholic University Nordestana de San Francisco de Macor\u00eds), el Centro Cultural Narciso Gonz\u00e1lez (Narciso Gonz\u00e1lez Cultural Center), Centro Le\u00f3n, CEDAF, Terra and RENAEPA, among others.<\/P>
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www.drenvironmentalfilmfestival.org<\/A>
www.environmentaldictionary.org<\/A>
www.globoverdedominicano.org<\/A><\/P>
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