The documentation “The Dominican Dream” (The Dominican Dream) will be an opportunity to see the former player of the nba as the protagonist of a film that transports him to another dimension.
The film is a portrait of Dominican immigrants in New York in the 1980s and 1990s and was directed by the award-winning director Jonathan Hock.
“It is a blessing for me to be chosen as a person of Dominican origin,” said López. “The story of Felipe López and his family is a human story of immigrants to New York who brought talent, dreams and humanity,” says Hock from the United States.
Both were interviewed by Diario Libre via the Zoom platform.
The documentary will be screened at the Dominican Film Festival on January 29thorganized by Funglode.
López traveled to the United States with her family at the age of 13.
“I think that in this documentary people can see that he is an ordinary Dominican who has achieved many goals in his life, but has not forgotten what the pure roots are, where I come from, where I come from and where I come from come who I identify with,” said López, who is in Santiago.
For Hock, the issue of immigrants is nothing new. In López, he recognizes his own history as his parents were from Eastern Europe, leaving him with a “strong connection” to the Dominican’s history, especially since the director’s family lived just around the corner where the family moved, exNBA and now president of the Gregorio Urbano Gilbert Club. Hock’s grandparents moved there 80 years before the Louis Philippe family.
At least 70 percent of the documentary was shot in the Dominican Republic. The rest in the United States.
At the end of the documentary, Hock describes his impressions as follows: “During the last days of shooting in Santiago with Felipe, it was the days before Christmas and I accompanied Felipe when he distributed food to the people and he organized the big family dinner on the basketball court GUG the size of his heart, for me that was the most impressive thing about the whole experience of making this film.”
commitment to his country
For López, the documentary was “a dedication to my people, to my country, the Dominican Republic, through my representation as an athlete,” he emphasizes, “but now also as a philanthropist, serving our community to improve a social situation, sport and that is what I embrace as a graduate of St. John’s University and as an ambassador for the NBA.”
Sports lovers in all its dimensions. Confident that the base of the sport must come from school. He has covered the Pan American Games and the Central American and Caribbean Games.