DINNER AND A BACHATA MOVIE + History Presentation

This is also the first time for a bachata festival to feature such lecture on bachata history! Don't miss it.

Dinner and a Movie plus more!

Adam Taub, is an award winning documentary film director from Colorado whose films include La Quinceañera, Don Angelo, and El Duque de la Bachata will be coming to the Sf Bachata Festival to show his latest movie - El Duque. His film La Quinceañera won the 2007 award for Best Documentary at the Angelus Student Film Festival in Hollywood, California and Best Documentary at the San Diego Latino Film Festival. He is currently working on a film project entitled El Duque de la Bachata with Joan Soriano, a bachata and merengue musician from the Dominican Republic.

Story: El Duque de la Bachata is a documentary film about Joan Soriano, a Bachata Musician from the Dominican Republic, as he struggles to reach his goal of a hit CD and success as a musician. It is also the story of his large extended family living in the rural countryside of Monte Plata near Santo Domingo. They dream along with him, hoping that his success will improve their economic situation and quality of life.

The bachatas and merengues he plays have their origins in the Dominican Republic yet draw upon a variety of musical influences from regions of Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Soriano is a practitioner of Afro-Dominican traditional salve and palo as well, and he blends these percussive styles with bachata to create a fresh sound.

Joan Soriano is now 36 and lives with his girlfriend in the Santo Domingo barrio of Villa Mella. Joan has been featured on the Rough Guide to the Bachata and on the documentary Santo Domingo Blues as well as performed and recorded with big name bachata musicians such as Joe Veras and Zacarias Ferreira. However, at 35 he still has not had his own hit and is feeling the pressure now to make it big more than ever. Within the last few years, a music producer named Benjamin de Menil from IASO Records has begun recording a CD of Joan's music and is now moving toward the CD's completion with high hopes that it will be a hit.

El Duque de la Bachata is saturated with music, Dominican culture, and intimate portraits. The film is produced and directed by Adam Taub.

Read Adam Taub at Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Taub

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