Scene from Pedro Almodóvar’s Dark Habits (MIFF 1984) Miami International Film Festival will commemorate it’s 30th edition with a 29-day retrospective counting down one film from each year of the Festival’s fascinating history until Opening Night on March 1, 2013. The showcase will kick off on January 26, 2013 at MDC’s Tower Theater with a […]

In honor of MIFF’s 30th birthday we wanted to take the XXX campaign outside of its print and online ads and create something unconventional. Enter the GET UP KIDS, a group of local artists whose work can be seen throughout Wynwood (and in Rick Ross’s new music video). Once the talented group agreed to recreate […]

Executive Director Jaie Laplante and MIFF team hosted the MIAMI@tiff XXX party to kick off MIFF’s 30th edition (March 1-10, 2013) during the Toronto International Film Festival at Spice Route on September 11th. Guests included film industry VIPS Richard Lorber, President and CEO at Kino Lorber; Arianne Ayers and Maureen Masters from Magnolia Pictures; Jonathan Howell, VP Theatrical Distribution and Acquisitions at New Yorker Films; Nicholas Kaiser, Sales […]

Barbara Sukova, Margarethe von Trotta, Oliver Mahrdt Acclaimed German actress and director Margarethe von Trotta, who was honored with MIFF’s Career Achievement Tribute at 2010 Festival, will be the latest recipient of the Leo Baeck Medal on November 28th at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. The award is presented to individuals whose work resonated […]

MIFF’s first-ever animated Opening Night Film (2011) and 2012 Academy Award Nominee, Chico & Rita, is now available on Blu-Ray, DVD, On Demand and Digital Download.  Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle époque), famed Barcelona designer Javier Mariscal and Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger Bebo Valdés celebrate the music and culture of Cuba with an […]

Kirstin Scott Thomas and Ethan Hawke MIFF’s 2012 Official Selection The Woman in the Fifth, by Pawel Pawlikowski, will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on September 18, 2012 from Amazon or for download via iTunes. A tour-de-force performance by Ethan Hawke caps this mysterious tale of an American writer cracking up in Paris. Tom […]

Vince Vaughn will star in Dreamwork’s remake of Starbuck, a French-Canadian comedy which scored big with audiences at MIFF 2012, about a man whose life is turned upside down when he learns he has fathered 533 children through sperm donation. When a few hundred of the children express an irrepressible need to meet their father, […]

Andres Castillo (MIFF programmer), Jaie Laplante (MIFF executive director), Pablo Larraín (Profúgos director), Luis Peraza (Senior VP at HBO Latin America Group) From Chile comes Prófugos (Fugitives), the groundbreaking story of a failed drug trafficking operation that triggers an all-out manhunt across the vast regions of the Chilean landscape.  Four men are contracted by a mob […]

Students at Unfinished Spaces screening at Gusman Center The Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) was proud to participate in Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ Cultural Passport program during its 29th edition this past March. More than 1,200 high school seniors attended screenings of two of MIFF’s 2012 official selections: In the Name of the Girl (En el […]

Diane Kruger in Farewell, My Queen Over the weekend, MDC’s Tower Theater earned almost twice the national average for Farwell, My Queen (Les adieux à la reine).  Director Benoît Jacquot’s film explores the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution, grossed $185,991 in 56 theaters, with a […]

Film still from Gerhard Richter Painting Miami Downtown Development Authority (DDA) announced that the inaugural DWNTWN Art Days will be held on September 7 and 8, 2012. Unlike other Art Walks in Miami, DWNTWN Art Days will not only give locals the chance to browse galleries and other art institutions in Downtown, but will also […]

Jaie Laplante, director ejecutivo de MIFF Próximo a celebrar su trigésimo aniversario (el 1-10 de marzo del 2013), el Festival de Cine de Miami (MIFF) continúa fortaleciendo su perfil latinoamericano con el relanzamiento del programa Miami Encuentros, para proyectos en desarrollo, y la consolidación del concurso de Opera Prima Lexus para promocionar a los nuevos […]

Frank Langella and Liv Tyler As part of Miami International Film Festival’s monthly screening series, Miami Film Society members will be invited to the special sneak preview screening of Jake Schreier’s feature film debut Robot & Frank on Wednesday, August 22. Stellar cast includes: Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon.  More…

Director Liz Garbus MIFF 2011 Doc-You-Up film Bobby Fischer Against the World, by Liz Garbus, and MIFF 2012 Knight Documentary Competition film Under African Skies, by Joe Berlinger, will both compete in the Nonfiction Special category at this year’s Emmy Awards. Meanwhile, director Liz Garbus‘ new documentary Love, Marilyn will world premiere in six weeks at the Toronto International […]

LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy The one-night only exclusive engagement of Shut Up and Play the Hits (directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern) at MDC’s Tower Theater on July 16th was a huge hit, bringing in $3,800 compared to the national average of $2,100. The documentary shows the impact of James Murphy’s decision to leave […]

Lucas Leyva… MIFF 2011 Juror Lucas Leyva has just been named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film for 2012 along with fellow Miami-native director, writer, and actress Jillian Mayer. Leyva is the founder and Minister of the Interior of the Borscht Film Festival, a quasi-yearly event held at iconic Miami venues […]

Ballplayer: Pelotero  MIFF 2012’s Doc-You-Up Official Selection Ballplayer: Pelotero, whose US theatrical and VOD rights were recently acquired by Strand Releasing, returned to the big screen this past week and opened to sell out crowds in Boston, San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, and Florida. The film is now available on iTunes and Amazon.  This […]

Scene from “Gloria & Eric” MIFF 2010 filmmaker (“Gloria and Eric”) and current screening committee member Nicolas Calzada returns to Miami along with screenwriter/co-director  Carman Pelaez to film their new short which just recently won the 2012 HBO®/New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) Short Film Competition. Calzada’s short “The Acting Lesson” tells the story […]

Andres Parra as Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar Almost two decades after he was gunned down on a Medellín rooftop, Colombia’s most notorious villain is being resurrected in the US and will premiere on Telemundo this evening, July 9. Colombia’s Caracol TV has been airing the new series, Pablo Escobar: The Boss of Evil (Escobar, […]

El Empantanado co-star Paola Mendoza The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) has announced that El Empantanado (The Muddy), a Colombian-American film shot on location in South Florida written and directed by Felipe Echavarría, was chosen for its outstanding creative vision by participants of the 2012 Narrative Independent Filmmaker Lab.  El Empantanado is the opera prima of […]