MELVIN DURAN
Education
"Cinematography and audiovisual media" "Magna Cum Laude"
Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) - BA - Dominican Republic. 2011
"Lawyer and rights" "Cum Laude"
Universidad del Caribe - LLB - Dominican Republic. 2011
"Master in Film, Tv and Interactive Media"
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos I – Madrid, Spain. 2013
Courses and workshop
Documentary with low budget (Workshop) - Centro Paco Rabal - (Spain) 2013
Photography black and white - Fundación Canal - (Spain) 2013
Script for cinema and television - Factoría del Guión - (Spain) 2013
Workshop of photography - Photoespaña - (Spain) 2013
Camera assistant, gaffer and grip - FANCI, Escuela de Cine San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba 2012
Training director assintant - DGCINE y S.I.C.A (Argentina - 2012
Workshop of documentaries - Mirada Compartida CCE 2011
Dominico Americano Institute - English 2007 - 2011
Production designed - DINAC - 2010
The sound on the cinema - FUNGLODE – EICTV – 2010
Filmmaker with low budget - NALIP – DR - 2009
Script for documentaries with Carles Bosch - Centro Cultural de España - 2008
Work Experience
La Fuente House - Administrador 2022
Documental Zenovia - Director, Script and Produccer 2020
Centro Cultural de España Prof. Taller Dirección/producción de cine 2014
Dazed and Confunsed - DP assistent Fumi Nagasaka 2014
U Magazine - Dominican Republic - Reporter, Colaborator, fashion stylish April 2011
PhotoEspaña Asistente fotógrafo Guy Tillim - 2013
R and R productions Realizador de documental y guionista – 2012/13
Aura Post-grafica - Post production, editing 2010
Induveca Makes your dream come true (TV documentaries) - Editor Assistant 2010
Summer Work and Travel USA Tennessee USA - Dollywood Splash Country 2008
FUNGLODE Film Festival - Audiovisual department assistant 2008
Freelancer audiovisual experience
Zenovia - Director and scriptwriter (Postproduction)
Director and scriptwriter– Blanco (documentary) - 2014
Director - energy efficiency (tv special) – 2013
Postproduction assistant - Induveca makes your dream come true (TV Special) 2010
Postproduction assistant - Camilo (EPK) 2010
Director assistant - Revolution (short- film) 2009
Director - República Cinematográfica (documentary) 2009
Production design – Carlos Voltio (Short-film) 2007
Director - The abortion (Commercial) 2007
Production assistant - La meta (video art)
Script, director assistant - CineJazz (Documentary) 2006
Art direction - Plan what plan? (Short-film) 2006
Script - Perfect Crime - (Short-film) 2006
Festivals & Screenings
Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) – “Official Selection” - Competition "Iberoamerican Documentary" – 2014
International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Habana, Cuba: “Official Selection” "Colors of Diversity" - 2014
Icaro International Film Festival de Cine, Guatemala: “Official Selection” "Documentary Competition" - 2014
Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Canada: “Official Selection” "AlJazeera Documentary Competition" – 2014
Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival: “Official Selection” "Documentary Competition" "People Choice Awards" - 2014
Internacional Documentary Film Festival RDOCS – "Official Selection" Competition "Best Dominican Documentary" 2014
Isla Margarita International Film Festival Venezuela: Official Selection” - Competition "Documentary" – 2014
Internacional Documentary Film Festival ATLANTIDOC, Uruguay: "Official Selection" - 2014
FILMDAID International Film Festival Kenya, África: “Official Selection” - 2014
Antofagasta International Film Festival, Chile: “Official Selection” "Documentary Competition" - 2014
Seatle Latino Film Festival, United States: Official Selection” "Documentary Competition" - 2014
Perú International Film Festival: :“Official Selection” - 2014
Bagdad International Film Festival: "Official Selection” "Documentary Competition" - 2014
Pasto International Film Festival, Colombia: "Official Selection” "Documentary Competition" - 2014
White Sands International Film Festival: "Official Selection” "Documentary Competition" - 2014
Veer Bold Veer International Film Festival, Bogotá: "Official Selection” - 2014
Barranquilla International Film Festival, Colombia: “"Official Selection” "Documentary Competition" – 2014
Pobre De la Paz International Film Festival: "Official Selection” - 2014
Dominican Film Festival en New York: "Official Selection” - 2014
International Film Festival of Santo Domingo: Dominican Panorama - 2014
Screening of Dominican Cinema: Calcutta, India - 2014
Funglode International Film Festival: "Official Selection” – 2014
Muestra de Cine Dominicano en la Habana Cuba – 2015
Muestra de Cine Dominicano en India – 2015
Muestra de cine documental en Querétaro, México- 2015
Festival International Du Film Documentaire De Khouribga, Marruecos – Selección Oficial - 2014
International Film Festival of Dominican Cinema en Puerto Rico : "Official Selection” "República Cinematográfica" - 2010
Grants & Awards
La Silla Awards Mejor "Best Documentary"
Internacional Documentary Film Festival RDOCS – "Best Documentary of Dominican Republic” – 2014
Contancero Youth awards of the Year 2014
Merit honor student: Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
Cinedominicano.net 2010 - Truffaut Award, best film critic "Ladrones a Domicilio"
Research Experience
2013
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos I, Madrid
Adivor: Alfonso Cuadrado
Project: The reinvention of Zombie Cinema in TV series
Case: In the flesh
2011
Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
Advisor: Dr. Olga Espinal
Project: Characteristics of the higher education of filmmakers
Case: Film School of Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo
Publications and Articles
Melvin Duran. “New York at first sight - Urban Pictures”. Santo Domingo: Revista U, May 2011
Melvin Duran. “From head to toe, fashion style Hunting”. Santo Domingo: Revista U. April
Melvin Duran. “Ladrones a Domicilio”. Best Film critic, cinedominicano.net December 2011
Melvin Duran. “In Focus”. Dominican Republic: Listín Diario Newspaper. February 2010
Melvin Duran. “I love what I do”. Oh! Magazine. February, 2010.
“República Cinematográfica Documentary”. Puerto Rico. Cinemateca de Puerto Rico, November 2009.
Conferences and Awards
Talent campus Guadalajara y Doc lab – International Film Festival of Guadalajara, México, 2013
Coproduction meeting FICG - 2013
Cine forum “Pasión Almodovar”. Rincón del Cine. 2012
Modelo de las Naciones Unidas en New York (ONU) – 2011
Knowledge and skills
Computer - Windows, Microsoft Office (Word - Excel - PowerPoint), Flash, Photoshop.
Interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, leadership, multicultural sensitivity, conscious, planned, organized, find solutions, reasoning, creative, honest, upright, professional, and self-conscious.
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