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in “Castello Errante. Residenza internazionale del Cinema” since 2019, represented by a film student who,
along with a troupe of other Latin American and Italian students, makes an audio-visual product that is then
distributed internationally. In 2020 seven Dominican children and teenagers took part in “Desde mi ventana.
Image slam COVID-19,” a competition for the best drawings illustrating this difficult period of closure and
social distancing.
So, we too have our stories of Italo-Dominican friendship to tell, and perhaps this book will be a stimulus
for doing so!
I end with a firm wish: many of the lives portrayed in this splendid book are “film lives”; it would be won-
derful to see them scroll across the big screen as the result of an Italo-Dominican cinema co-production.