José María Cabral

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