Michael Dominic (born June 18, 1970) is an American
filmmaker and
photojournalist
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who grew up in
New York City. He is best known for his documentary ''
Sunshine Hotel'', which won three awards for best documentary.
Early life
Dominic was born in Washington D.C., the son of Stephanie and Joseph Dominic. In 1971 his family moved to the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York.
He studied film at School of Visual Arts in New York City from 1990 to 1993.
Career
Dominic has made several films, most notably the feature-length documentaries ''Sunshine Hotel'' and ''Clean Hands'', and the narrative short "Tulips for Daisy".
''Sunshine Hotel'', a documentary about
one
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of the last
flophouses on New York City's
Bowery, won three best documentary awards and was nominated for another dozen or so. After its festival run of almost 30 film festivals it aired on the
Sundance Channel from 2002 to 2004.
"Tulips for Daisy", a
narrative film set in Amsterdam, was also nominated for several awards, most notably in the
Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Competition
The Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Competition is a major international short film awards ceremony, run by the Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He i ...
.
As a photojournalist Dominic has traveled to places including Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. His photography has appeared in dozens of outlets including ''
The Sunday Telegraph'', ''Tribune De Geneve'', ''
France-Amérique'', ''
The New York Daily News'', ''
The Wall Street Journal'', ''
The New York Post'', ''
Playboy'', ''
Redbook
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'', ''
Le Figaro, ''
Le Parisien
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Histor ...
'', ''Bilan'', ''Chåtelaine'', and ''
L'actualité''.
In July 2012 Dominic was recognized as a finalist for
The New York Foundation for the Arts 2012 fellowship.
In January 2019 Dominic completed the feature documentary ''Clean Hands'', about the Lopez family surviving against the backdrop of
Central America’s largest garbage dump,
La Chureca
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in
Managua,
Nicaragua. The film debuted at the 29th Annual
Cinequest
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Film Festival April 9, 2019, where it won Best Documentary Feature. It went on to win a total of 11 awards.
Filmography as director
* ''Soup & the Dead'' (1994)
* ''Sunshine Hotel'' (2001)
* ''Tulips for Daisy'' (2006)
* ''Clean Hands'' (2019)
References
External links
Official website''Clean Hands''''Sunshine Hotel''"Tulips for Daisy"*
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Living people
Artists from New York City
American filmmakers
1970 births