By Geisha Montes de Oca, Patricia Solano, Olga Valdez

In this panel, guests will discuss what it means to be a female filmmaker in the Dominican film industry, the different issues, strategies, and the success they have experienced. Topics will include the particular challenges often faced by women in the industry and how to overcome them; approaches for dealing with important societal issues via cinema; how the availability of newer technologies may impact their cinema; unique ways developed by Dominican women filmmakers to communicate their ideas cinematically and how these can be further developed; and any problems involved in being a female filmmaker in a largely male dominated industry, including working with all male production crews.