Director

José María Cabral

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Directed movies: 12Directed series: 0All crew credits: 13

TMDB ID: 1106135

IMDb ID: nm2696279

Known for: Directing

Born: July 24, 1988

Age: 37

Place of birth: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2009 - 2025

Years active: 17

Average TMDB rating: 6.43

Wikidata: Q6293203

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Biography

José María Cabral (b. Santo Domingo, July 24, 1988) is a Dominican film director, screenwriter, and producer. Cabral started making films when he was 16 years old, making private screenings of short films to family and friends in local movie theaters, one of them “Excexos” got national distribution in 2008. His first feature film, Jaque Mate (2011), was screened at a high number of film festivals and selected as the Dominican entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. Arrobá and Despertar followed in 2013 and 2014, also making it into the festival circuits. In 2015 he released Detective Willy a comedy adventure film. Cabral premiered his last film, Carpinteros, in January at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, a story about the realities and relationships of prisoners in Dominican jails. Another films The Projectionist (2019), Isla de Plastico (2019), Hotel Coppelia (2020)

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