Anna Marie de la Fuente To paraphrase an old adage, there’s bound to be a silver lining in every cloud. Indeed, for some Caribbean island locations, the COVID-19 pandemic, despite some losses in human life, has been a blessing for their audiovisual industries.
The Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, two of the most generous locations in terms of film incentives, are expecting a record boom.“The number and size of projects coming to the country have increased exponentially,” says Albert Martinez, COO of the Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios. “By opening up earlier than other locations, many projects gravitated to us.”Among the first major productions to film in the Dominican Republic, and which made full use of Pinewood DR, was “Old,” M..
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