FREE EVENT - In Celebration of Dominican Republic Independence Day, The Dominican Cultural Club (DCC) invites the BCC community to the screening of the film: “La Soga” (2009), 103 minutes Date: Thursday, February 27, 2014 Time: 12:00-2:00pm Place: RBSC Playhouse Action, suspense, comedy, and romance… La Soga is a 2009 action film written and starred by the Dominican actor Manny Pérez. La Soga tells the story of Luisito, a brave man who risks everything to find justice. A story of redemption, this film is set in several neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic as well as in Washington Heights, the Dominican-American largest settlement in New York City. The actor Manny Pérez majored in Drama at Marymount Manhattan College. He successfully completed his Bachelor’s Degree in 1992. He also studied at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City. The son of an immigrant family from Baitoa, a rural area in the northern Cibao region of the Dominican Republic, Manny Pérez has appeared in shows like Law & Order and CSI: Miami. Partially based on his own life experience, Manny Pérez wrote La Soga to find out what happened to a friend who got killed in a big empty lot in the Dominican Republic over 15 years ago. He decided to “find out about these guys who believe they have a license to kill.” For further information please contact Dr. Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco (DCC Advisor), Social Sciences Department, Colston 329-328. Tel. 718.289.5822. E-mail: [email protected] or Deivid Valdez (DCC Co-advisor), Communications and Marketing, Language Hall 16. Tel. 718.289.5144. Email: [email protected].
Posted on: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:06:35 +0000
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