Woodpeckers
Carpinteros
- Director
- Jose María Cabral
- Cast
- Jean Jean
Judith Rodríguez
Ramón Emilio Candelario - Genre
- Romantic Drama
- Duration
- 109 min
- Nationality
- Dominican Republic
- Year
- 2017
- Language
- Spanish
- Production
Companies - Tabula Rasa
Woodpeckers
Carpinteros
José María Cabral’s WOODPECKERS, the first Dominican movie ever at Sundance, is an immensely accessible prison love story shot in real locations with a cast that brilliantly mixes actors with real inmates.
Julián finds love and something to live for in the last place imaginable: prison. Risking brutal punishment, Julián communicates with Yanelly from his prison yard to hers when he is hired by her ex-husband to act as a messenger. Through their own invented sign language that they call “woodpecking”, Julián and Yanelly fall silently and inevitably in love and decide to fight against all odds for their secret and forbidden romance.
