Profesor Honorario Escuela de Cine, Fac.de Artes

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Pericles Mejia   

ACTOR/DIRECTOR

Pericles E. Mejía • Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, French & Dominican Nationalities  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577244/  • Studied Dramatic Arts in the Dominican Republic 1960; Studied Dramatic Arts in France 1968 • Theatre Teacher at the Drama School of Fine Arts Dominican Republic 1972-75 •  Head of the Audio Visual Department of the Museum of Natural History in 1978 • Founder of the Film Library (“Cinemateca Kircher”) in 1979 • Counsellor of the National Film Archives” since 1980 (Cinemateca Nacional Dominicana) •

Director of the short “La Santería” with the Painter Jorge Severino 1976 • Director of the Shorts (Sandino, 1980 ; Nicaragua, 1981) (16mm) with the Painter Silvano Lora• Editor of “Un Pasaje De Ida”, by Agliberto Meléndez http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122652/ •

Line Producer for the French-Haitian film “L’homme sur les quais”, by Raoul Peckhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107132/, • Director of the Short “La Ruta” with Silvano Lora (35mm) 1988 • Director of several Shorts “Carnaval” (1989) and “Navidades Dominicanas” (1989) •

Between 1989 and 1996 has directed more than 250 Advertising Spots in film and Video; 18 Industrial & Ethnological documentaries, and 134 shorts for TV as Cameraman/ Producer/Director.

Screenwriter and Director for film “Cuatro hombres y un Ataúd” in 1996, (4 men And A Coffin) http://mejiadigital.com/4hombresyunataud/

Film Critic 1978 -1980 For the newspapers “La Noticia”, “El Sol” “El Nuevo Diario” • Theatre actor from 1970 to 1980 : “La Celestina”, “La Boda”, “Un Héroe mas para la mitología”, “La Opéra de Tres Centavos”, “Las Sillas” • and others

Film Actor :“The White Crab”, and “The Feast of The Goat”, by Luis Llosa, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428532/ ”Guns of the Magnificent Seven” by Paul Wendkos, ,“Enigma”,by Robert Cornelio http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1050700/  “Ladrones a Domicilio” by Angel Muñiz http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176958/ 

“Las Luciernagas”http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815193/  • “Roomate” and “Codigo 666” by Elias Acosta Elias Acosta, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903653/  

Member of the Council of the International Film Festival of Santo Domingo • Has written 4 Screenplays : “La Gran Carrera De Arsenio”, “Las Tres Que Echaron A Pedro En El Pozo” “Baseball” and “La Boda De Rosa” • Screen writer “Liborio El Dios Vivo de Maguana” & “La Religiosidad Popular TV 2005 • Under Director of the National Film Library, in charge of Programming 2002-05 •

Teacher of “Acting & Screen writing “ for the National School of Drama since 2002 Teacher of Screenwriting at the University Madre Y Maestra of Santo Domingo

Acting teacher at the Film & Television College of Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China:http://www.sc-filmcollege.com/new/onews.asp?id=314

Acting , screenplay teacher at the Film Institute of Santiago http://incines.blogspot.com/

Also  Actor in several fims such “Lilis” 2006, “Roomate”,2006, “las Luciernagas”, 2006 ;”La Tragedia LLenas” Codigo666,2008, “Enigma,2008; Sanky Panky 2”, 2013, “Noche de Circo” 2014;”Una Breve Historia de Amor” 2014; “Sálvame” 2014;  “Amin Abel Historia de un Crimen” 339 ,2014 “Ovni”2015

My Resume in English

Pericles E. Mejía • Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, French & Dominican Nationalities  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577244/ • Studied Dramatic Arts in the Dominican Republic 1960; Studied Dramatic Arts in France 1968 • Theatre Teacher at the Drama School of Fine Arts Dominican Republic 1972-75 •  Head of the Audio Visual Department of the Museum of Natural History in 1978 • Founder of the Film Library (“Cinemateca Kircher”) in 1979 • Counsellor of the National Film Archives” since 1980 (Cinemateca Nacional Dominicana) •

 

Director of short “La Santería” with the Painter Jorge Severino 1976 • Director of the Shorts (Sandino, 1980 ; Nicaragua, 1981) (16mm) with the Painter Silvano Lora• Editor of “Un Pasaje De Ida”, by Agliberto Meléndez http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122652/ •

Line Producer for the French-Haitian film “L’homme sur les quais”, by Raoul Peckhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107132/, • Director of the Short “La Ruta” with Silvano Lora (35mm) 1988 • Director of several Shorts “Carnaval” (1989) and “Navidades Dominicanas” (1989) •

 

Between 1989 and 1996 has directed more than 250 Advertising Spots in film and Video; 18 Industrial & Ethnological documentaries, and 134 shorts for TV as Cameraman/ Producer/Director.

 

Screenwriter and Director for film “Cuatro hombres y un Ataúd” in 1996, (4 men And A Coffin) http://mejiadigital.com/4hombresyunataud/

 

Film Critic 1978 -1980 For the newspapers “La Noticia”, “El Sol” “El Nuevo Diario” • Theatre actor from 1970 to1980 : “La Celestina”, “La Boda”, “Un Héroe mas para la mitología”, “La Opéra de tres Centavos”, “Las Sillas” • and others

 

Film Actor :“The White Crab”, and “The Feast of The Goat”, by Luis Llosa, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428532/ ”Guns of the Magnificent Seven” by Paul Wendkos, ,“Enigma”,by Robert Cornelio http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1050700/

  “Ladrones a Domicilio” by Angel Muñiz http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176958/ 

“Las Luciernagas”http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815193/  • “Roomate” and “Codigo 666” by Elias Acosta Elias Acosta, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903653/  

 

Member of the Council of the International Film Festival of Santo Domingo • Has written 4 Screenplays : “La Gran Carrera De Arsenio”, “Las Tres Que Echaron A Pedro En El Pozo” “Baseball” and “La Boda De Rosa” • Screen writer “Liborio El Dios Vivo de Maguana” & “La Religiosidad Popular TV 2005 • Under Director of the National Film Library, in charge of Programming 2002-05 •

 

Teacher of “Acting & Screen writing “ for the National School of Drama since 2002 Teacher of Screenwriting at the University Madre Y Maestra of Santo Domingo

Acting teacher at the Film & Television College of Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China:http://www.sc-filmcollege.com/new/onews.asp?id=314

Acting , screenplay teacher at the Film Institute of Santiago http://incines.blogspot.com/

Contact me et:    pericles@mejiadigital.net

 

Small Acting Resume

Pericles Mejia

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577244/

Pericles is an acclaimed Dominican actor and director with more than 40 years experience in film, theatre and television. A graduate of theatre programs in the Dominican Republic and in France, he has taught at the Dominican Drama School of Fine Arts; the Film and Television College of the Sichuan Normal University in China; the Catholic University Madre y Maestra of Santo Domingo; and the National School of Drama,

He made his directorial debut with the feature “Cuatro Hombres y un Ataúd” (Four Men and a Coffin), which he also wrote. http://www.mejiadigital.com/4hombresyunataud/ Other directing credits include numerous fiction shorts, and more than 130 short documentaries, 18 full-length industrial and ethnological documentaries, and 250 advertising spots.

His acting credits include theatre roles in productions such as “La Celestina”F. Rojas, “La Boda”, B .Brecht “ La Opéra de Tres Centavos” B. Brecht, and “Las Sillas” E. Ionesco; and many others.

His recent film appearances “The Feast of The Goat”http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428532/, “Enigma”, “Ladrones a Domicilio” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176958/ “Las Luciernagas” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815193/ and “Roomate” as a film actor.

Pericles is a passionate and committed member of the Dominican artistic community, which he serves as a Member of the Council of the International Film Festival of Santo Domingo, a Counselor of the National Film Archives, and founder of the Film Library “Cinemateca Kircher”.