Dir. Erika Santelices & Orlando Barría
Dominican Republic, 2023 | 77 min | Historical | Spanish/English with English Subtitles | Rated PG-13 | Central American Premiere

“The Photographer of La 40” reveals the story of photographer Pedro Anibal Fuentes Berg, who is sent to take images in the clandestine Prison of La 40, a torture center created during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961), in the Republic Dominican. Fuentes Berg feels the inevitable commitment to disseminate these images internationally to highlight the horrors that the opponents experienced inside the prison and decide to release them, so that they are known. Some of these photographs became icons of the barbarity of the Trujillo dictatorship.

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About the Director

She is a photographer and documentarian based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic who has worked as a correspondent for the French Press Agency from 2007 to 2023, she is currently working on finishing her first Documentary “El Fotógrafo de la 40”. In addition, Erika, she is the manager and director of the National Photojournalism Award of the Dominican Republic. Santelices has also worked with the Pulitzer Center, the Washington Post, Getty Images, and her work has been published in various media such as El País in Spain, the New York Times, Amnesty International, and Esquire, among others. As a project manager, she has worked giving and producing workshops for photojournalists, she has also been selected twice at the Santo Domingo Art Biennial and her photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Cultural Center of Spain of SD Alianza Francesa . of SD, Arawak Art Gallery and Image Center.

ORLANDO BARRIA
Barría, is a photojournalist born in Patagonia. He studied professional photography in Santiago and worked as a photojournalist for the newspapers La Época and El Mercurio. Since 2002 he has worked as a correspondent for
Agencia EFE in the Dominican Republic. Barría has done various coverage such as the War in Ukraine, the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the Pan American Games in Lima, Rio, Toronto and Santo Domingo. The papal visits in Cuba and Colombia, hurricanes in the Caribbean, humanitarian crises, Fidel Castro’s funeral, the earthquakes in Haiti in 2010 and 2021. Also the 2004 armed conflict in Haiti, the social outbreak in Chile, presidential summits,
visit President Obama to Cuba, among other events. He has received various awards, among which are the first
places in the POY Latam (USA), Luis Valtueña Award (Spain), Px3 Prix de la Photographie (France), Salón de Fotoprensa (Chile), Biennial of Visual Arts of Santo Domingo, Award of the Information Media Association, AMI (Spain). In 2022 he was nominated for the Gabriel García Márquez Award.

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