Charo Oquet (Dominican Republic, 1952), is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Miami, FL. Through a large range of media and materials, she addresses a multiplicity of narratives in her work, from the visibility and invisibility of colored bodies within a post-colonial space to the cultural and political meanings of geography. Her work has significantly contributed to opening the black universe of Afro-Caribbean cultures to the canonical and institutional history of art.
Liony Garcia is a dancer and choreographer based in Miami, FL. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New World School of the Arts. As a performer, he has worked with BodyTraffic (LA) performing choreographic works by Guy Weizman and Roni Haver (NL) and Barack Marshall.
Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat is a Dominican illustrator and animator, with a profound love of telling stories. He sees his work as magic-realism, evoking the surreal experience of growing up in the caribbean. His world is personal and intimate, with characters full of colors and textures, drawn into situations outside of their comfort zone.
Amal Rogers is a Somali/American dance artist and community educator who uses art as a means for personal, social, and political transformation.
Medina, a native of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, majored in audiovisual communications at the University of Puerto Rico, and later completed his Master of Fine Arts in directing for film at the Savannah College of Art and Design. In 2013 he collaborated as director of photography for an Axe commercial that was awarded the Silver Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, and since then has directed multiple award-winning short films and commercials for brands including Coca-Cola, T-Mobile and Medalla Light. After a 14-year career as an artist/filmmaker, Medina moved to Miami, where he continues to create and collaborate in the film industry as a writer/director, cinematographer and editor. At the moment he is finishing his first feature film, Sunnyland.
Hansel Porras Garcia was born in Pinar del Río, Cuba, on July 20, 1994. He graduated from the National School of Arts in Havana, Cuba, as an Actor; and from the Center for Cinematography, Art and TV (CCAT Miami) with an Associates Degree in TV Production. His short film “Las Ausencias” won the award for Best Male Performance at the Oklahoma Cine Latino Film Festival 2020.
Alina Labour is an experimental multidisciplinary artist. In short, Alina has been writing, singing and producing her songs since she was 17 years old. Musically Alina creates atmospheres of sounds ranging from ambient and noise to shoegaze, dreampop and electronics. She is also a multimedia artist.
Geraldine Rivera is a Dominican multidisciplinary artist, director and fictional character. Geraldine studied visual communication at Long Island (Farmingdale State College), and then worked in NYC as a graphic designer at a fashion and beauty studio for 2 years. She moved back to Santo Domingo in 2017, where she has focused on working on audiovisual projects. She is currently a freelance creative director, and teaches storytelling and creativity at Chavón, La Escuela de Diseño.
Manuel Mera is a young painter who’s striving to change what we expect from Dominican painters. Since the start of his painting career, Manuel’s style has been constantly evolving, absorbing inspiration from many different sources, such as music, sculpture, animation, among many others.
Independent creator of Performance Art. Born in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic, and currently lives and works in Santo Domingo. Graduated Cum Laude in Industrial Psychology from the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University (UNPHU), and completed the Official Master's Degree in Performing Arts from the Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid. With training in folk dance, ballet and modern dance, and with higher studies in music. He has taken various courses and workshops in the performing arts and Performance Art areas, and has various publications to his credit. He has participated in numerous national and international festivals. AWARD 25 National Biennial of Visual Arts (2009), and selected in the two subsequent editions. Likewise, artist selected in editions 24 and 25 of the Eduardo León Jimenes Art Contest (2012 and 2014, respectively), Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
Ernesto Paredano, a Spanish composer and artist living in Santo Domingo, DR. Paredano has developed a great career as a musical creative director in the field of cinema.
Her work as an artist and DJ is tightly influenced by her explorations of her Dominican Sudanese-Nubian culture and history. While she currently works with sound, she considers herself inter and multidisciplinary, and she is deeply interested in exploring immersive experiences through visual, audio, movement, and theatrics.
Dis.tant and Ediciones Hogare seek to represent in audiovisual projects the way we can reconnect through emotions, sensations and experiences, in order to reflect light in the darkness.
1992, Student of the Bachelor of Theater career, mention in Acting at the UASD and graduated from the National School of Dramatic Art (ENAD) Bellas Artes, is a young actor, performer, human rights and the LGBTIQ community activist in the Dominican Republic. Active member of the Active and Participative People organization (GAY P) has led processes with different organizations working on the issue of education, prevention and human rights, focused on women, adolescents and young people.