Director
José María Cabral
38 years · Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · 15 films
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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42nd Street
2025 · Director, Writer
Tiger
2024 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Tumba y Quema
2023 · Writer, Director
Parsley
2022 · Screenplay, Director
On Fawesome
Hotel Coppelia
2021 · Director, Screenplay
Plastic Island
2019 · Self, Director
The Projectionist
2019 · Director
On Plex
Woodpeckers
2017 · Director, Writer
Detective Willy
2015 · Director
Despertar
2014 · Director, Writer
Arrobá
2013 · Director
On Plex
Check Mate
2012 · Director, Writer
On Plex
Un Millón por Sobeida
2009 · Actor, Director
15 minutos
2009 · Director