Juliano Kunert
Locarno Residency 2024 | Dominican Republic
Locarno Residency 2024 | Dominican Republic
Juliano Kunert is a Dominican-German filmmaker who produces under the label Toro Negro, an art-house production boutique founded in 2023 and based in the Dominican Republic. Throughout his career he has worked as an Assistant Director on more than 20 features, including Pepe, Silver Bear for Best Director at the 74 Berlinale Competition by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias. He recently played the lead role in the new film by auteurs Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas Interior Apartamento Día. With Maguana Racing, his first feature in development, he’s been selected in Recién Paridos (AECID, Ibermedia, UNESCO ACERCA), Film Residency in Extremadura (Junta de Extremadura, NextGenerationEU) and the coproduction Event in Huelva’s Iberoamerican Film Festival Industry Zone. Juliano holds a degree in Communication specialized in Audiovisual Production from PUCMM. Also earned diplomas from NFTS (National Film & Television School) in England, BAFTA (British Academy Film & TV Awards), The Producer’s Guild of UK, and the Chavón School of Design in the Dominican Republic.
2023 Diaries of an Announced Meditation
2023 Celebrate, a Fire Is Coming
In the Dominican deep south, where human behavior borders on chaos and the absurd, a fallen angel grows weary of his purely ethereal life overseeing human activity in the desert. A convent needs money, two nuns yearn to reach the divine, and a mysterious homeless man wins the lottery. Their paths intertwine on the barren stage of underground street racing.
Maguana Racing explores the temporal and the eternal, the seen and the yet to be seen, through observing invisible angels and women close to their spirituality struggle with the desire to enter into the adrenaline of the world, after having been outside looking in for so long. It's a film about the act of observing, with its limitations and fascinations. Here, there, and all the space in between.
