Agliberto Meléndez

Agliberto Meléndez (August 8, 1942 – July 2, 2025) was a Dominican film director best known as the director of A One-Way Ticket (Un Pasaje de Ida), the Dominican Republic's first feature-length film, produced entirely in the Dominican Republic by a Dominican cast and crew. The film became known to American audiences after its 1988 debut in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art's New Directors/New Films Festival. A One-Way Ticket gained some notoriety because of its macabre subject matter; the story of would-be immigrants who die in their desperate struggle to escape a fate of poverty and despair. A One-Way Ticket, shot under very adverse conditions, proved to everyone that it could be done.