LIBORIO
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Venue
1400 NE 1st Ave
Miami, FL 33132
Synopsis
In the Dominican Republic early in the 20th century, Liborio, a peasant, disappears in a hurricane and returns as a prophet. He says he’s been given a mission: to bring the good and take away the evil, to cure the sick and teach by example. People begin to congregate by his side and they move to the mountains to have total freedom and develop the dream of an independent community. Everything changes when the invading US marines want to disarm and disband the community. Liborio wants to avoid a confrontation, but he knows that they can’t run forever.
Viewing restrictions: This film can ONLY be seen in the US and the Caribbean (except for the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the French Caribbean).
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About the Director
After studying film at Santo Domingo University, Nino Martínez won a scholarship to specialize in editing at EICTV in San Antonio de Los Baños in Cuba, where he became coordinator of the editing department. He then moved to Spain and began a prolific career as an editor, working on several awarded feature films and documentaries such as The Hours of the Day, Solitary Fragments, Dream and Silence, and Me Too, among others. In the Dominican Republic he founded the production company Balsié Guanábana Macuto, which served as a launchpad for his directorial career, and partnered with Fernando Santos Díaz and Guasábara Cine to produce Liborio, his first feature film. He has taught classes and given lectures in many film schools and art centers such as EICTV, ECAM, NIC, CICE, Chavon Art School, and for the Docnomads Erasmus Mundus joint master’s degree. Since 2012 he’s been a voting member of the European Film Academy.
