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DÓLARES DE ARENA
GERALDINE CHAPLIN
A FILM BY
LAURA AMELIA GUZMÁN ISRAEL CÁRDENAS
SAND DOLLARS
WITH THE SUPPORT OF:PRODUCED BY:
aurora dominicana
The film is a very free adaptation of the novel
Les dollars des sables, using elements that
contribute to create an atmosphere, Anne
and Noeli’s intimate world: an impossible
relationship, concern for one another and
loneliness.
Noelí is a girl who has thoughtlessly been
prostituting herself for a long time, who
dreams of leaving the island and going
somewhere in Europe to have a better future.
Anne is a migrant in the opposite direction,
from France to the Dominican Republic,
looking for pleasure, relaxation and to forget,
instead of looking for work.
Contradictions as having to pay for company,
to pay to solve everyone’s problems, the wish
to belong, to be helpful and useful, and the
impotence of not knowing how and to always
feel like an outsider. Of assuming a place, a
life or going after a distant illusion.
Sand Dollars was born from our wish to
portray a world full of contradictions,
contradictions that go from parties
and vacations, to love, betrayal, pleasure,
morality and loneliness. This is the world
that emerges from the book Les dollars des
sables written by the French author, Jean-
Noël Pancrazi; that world is, in a certain way,
Las Terrenas: the town where we previously
filmed Jean Gentil, a place where Domini-
cans from the countryside coexist with other
Dominicans from the capital, and also with
a group of Europeans that have lived there
for years, some of them even considered as
founders of this new life here.
DIREC-TOR’S NOTE
Every afternoon Noelí, a young Domi-
nican girl, goes to the beaches at Las
Terrenas. Along with her boyfriend,
they look for ways to make a living at the ex-
pense of one of the hundreds of tourists that
wander the beach.
As people parade through her life, Noelí has
a steady client, a mature French woman who,
as time goes by, has found an ideal refuge on
the island to spend her last years.
Noelí’s boyfriend feigns to be her brother and
outlines a plan in which Noelí travels to Paris
with the old lady and sends him money every
month.
For Noelí, the relationship with the old lady is
one of convenience, but the feelings become
more intense as the departure date closes in.
SYNOPSIS
BIO
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Re-
public on May 7th 1980, Laura Amelia
Guzmán graduated from Altos de
Chavón / The School of Design, where she
studied fine arts and photography. After ex-
hibiting in photography shows, she attended
the International Film and Television School
in Cuba, specializing in cinematography.
After working in several features, she moves
to Mexico. Since 2004, she has lived between
Mexico and the Dominican Republic working
with her husband Israel Cárdenas, with whom
she shares script, photography, production
and direction credits in their feature films.
Together they run the production company
Aurora Dominicana.
Israel Cárdenas (Mexico, 1980) is a self-
taught filmmaker who started out his career
in musical videoclip productions and some
film workshops at NYFA and EICTV. He
worked as camera assistant and second unit
camera in some projects before shooting in
2006 his first feature as co-director, script-
writer, photographer, producer and editor.
Sand Dollars is his fourth feature.
Besides his work as director, he has collab-
orated in various features as co-scriptwriter
(Los Últimos Cristeros, directed by Matías
Meyer, Mexico 2012), director of photography
(Cumbres, directed by Gabriel Nuncio) and
producer (Ocaso, directed by Theo Court,
Cumbres, Mañana Psicotrópica directed by
Alexandro Aldrete). In 2013 he establishes
Rayo Verde Post, image post-production
studio in the Dominican Republic.
FILMOGRAPHY
Cochochi 2007/ 87 min / Drama
Jean Gentil 2010/ 85 min / Drama
Carmita 2013/ 75 min / Documentary
LAURA AMELIA GUZMÁNISRAEL CÁRDENAS Directors / Producers
COCHOCHI (2007)
Awards and recognitions:
Discovery award, Toronto Intl. FF
Jury award, Toulouse FF
Jury award, Valdivia FF
Best Feature, Gramado FF
Best Feature, Miami Intl. FF
Fipresci awards at Gijón and Toulouse FF
Nominated for the Ariel for Best First Feature
and Best Script
www.cochochi.com.mx
JEAN GENTIL (2010)
Awards and recognitions:
Jury’s Special Mention, Venice FF (Orizzonti)
Bronze Alexander, Thessaloniki Intl. FF
Best Script Award, Miami Intl. FF
Jury’s special Prize, Guadalajara FF
Best Film Award, Palmas Gran Canaria FF
Grand Prize, Jeonju Intl. FF
Special Mention, Bafici
Best Feature, Cosquín FF
Best Film & Best Actor, Festivalissimo
Jury Award & Critics Award, Lima FF
Critics Award, Gramado FF
Best Director, Critic’s Award, Best Actor, Viña
del Mar Intl. FF
Best Feature, Trinidad & Tobago Intl. FF
Best Feature, Casandra Award, Dominican
Republic.
CARMITA (2013)
Festivals
Intl. Competition Ficunam
Trinidad & Tobago FF
RDoc Documentary FF of the
Dominican Republic
Cali International FF
Buenos Aires Documentary FF
Cinemigrante
Fine Arts FF
www.jeangentil.com
It’s been pure joy to learn, and a wonderful experience”
Geraldine Chaplin
GERALDINE CHAPLIN (US, 1944). Started
in David Lean’s adaptation of the epic love
story, Doctor Zhivago. Chaplin has enjoyed a
long and successful career in North America
with movies such as A Wedding, Welcome
to L.A., The Age of Innocence, Jane Eyre
and Robert Altman’s Nashville for which she
received a Golden Globe nomination. She
also played the role of her own grandmother
in Richard Attenborough’s biopic of her late
father, Chaplin, which starred Robert Downey
Jr. in the title role.
While she has made a name for herself in
North America, Chaplin continues to have
the most success overseas in Spanish and
French cinema. Fluent in both languages,
she has been a part of Spanish cinema for
decades with roles in Pedro Almodovar’s
Talk To Her and Jacques Rivette’s Love on
CAST
YANET MOJICA (Dominican Republic, 1993).
She lives in the town of Las Terrenas where
she is a dance instructor of salsa and denbow.
After an unexpected casting accompanied by
Geraldine Chaplin, she becomes a strong can-
didate to be the second lead of Sand Dollars.
After several months of rehearsals and work
before the camera, she wins the roll doing a
great job in her first feature film experience.
RICARDO ARIEL TORIBIO (Dominican
Republic, 1993). A professional musician and
self-taught artist, Ricardo has natural acting
skills. After doing some musical video clips,
his first feature film experience is in Sand
Dollars.
the Ground. She was also a close collabo-
rator of Carlos Saura with whom she had a
12-year relationship.
She won a Goya Award for Best Supporting
Actress for her role in the Argentine-Spanish
thriller, In the City Without Limits and received
a Goya nomination for Jose Antonio Bayona’s
The Orphanage. She reunited with Bayona
for the disaster film The Impossible starring
Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor.
Chaplin’s impressive contributions to Spanish
cinema earned her a Gold medal from the
Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinema-
tograficas de España.
Photography: Israel Cárdenas
Jaime Guerra
Editor: Andrea Kleinman S.A.E / E.D.A
Script collaborator: Alejandro Andújar
Art Director: Sylvia Conde
Wardrobe: Laura Guerrero
Sound designer: Alejandro De Icaza
Diego Gat
Sound mixer: Raúl Locatelli
Music: Ramón Cordero, Edilio Paredes
Musical Supervisor: IASO Records
Benjamin De Menil
Post Production: Rayo Verde Post
Israel Cárdenas
Jaime Guerra
Juanjo Cid
Carlo Reyes
Contact: produccion@auroradominicana.com
TECHNICAL INFO
Title: Dólares de Arena / Sand Dollars
Genre: Drama
Shooting format: 5K Anamorphic / Color
Screening format: DCP
Length: 85‘
Locations: Samaná, Dominican Republic
Languages: Spanish, English, French
Production companies: Aurora Dominicana
Canana, (Mexico), Rei Cine (Argentina)
FOPROCINE-Instituto Mexicano De Cinematografía (IMCINE)
Consejo Nacional Para La Cultura Y Las Artes (CONACULTA)
Production countries: Dominican Republic / Mexico / Argentina
With the support of: FONPROCINE-Dirección General de Cine, Rep. Dominicana
Programa Ibermedia
Instituto Nacional De Cine Y Artes Visuales (INCAA)
Banco BHD
Hubert Bals Fund
Written & Directed: Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas
Based on the novel “Les Dollars des Sables”
by Jean-Noël Pancrazi, Gallimard Editions.
Producers: Laura Amelia Guzmán, Israel Cárdenas, Benjamín Domenech,
Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda, Pablo Cruz
Executive producers: Linel Hernández, Gabriel Tineo, Desirée Reyes
Associate producers: Mónica de Moya, Julián Levin, Eddy Guzmán,
Sylvia Conde & José Luis Cárdenas
Sales agent:
contact@figafilms.com
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