ROSSY RETURNS! (To the Big Screen)

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MADAME Directed by Amanda Sthers France l 2017 l 91 minutes English, Spanish, French with English Subtitles COMEDY[/fusion_text][fusion_text]In her on-stage conversation at the 2017 Festival, our Marquee guest Rossy de Palma dished about a new French production of an English-language comedy that she just finished shooting – MADAME, written and directed by French filmmaker and […]

Jean-Marc Barr Returns to Miami With All-New Take on Famed Free-Diver Jacques Mayol

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French-American actor and filmmaker Jean-Marc Barr will attend the North American premiere of the new documentary Dolphin Man, about the life and legacy of the French free diving legend Jacques Mayol, whom Barr played in Luc Besson’s 1988 international blockbuster hit, The Big Blue, at Miami Film Festival’s upcoming 35th anniversary edition to be held […]

World Premiere of Mateo Gil’s Newest Film; Two Additional High-Profile Spanish Features Announced for 35th Miami Film Festival as First Two Marquee Events

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Multi-award-winning Spanish filmmaker Mateo Gil will present the World premiere of his latest film, The Laws of Thermodynamics (Las leyes de la termodinámica), a unique romantic comedy co-produced by Spain’s Zeta Cinema and Atresmedia, at Miami Film Festival’s upcoming 35th anniversary edition to be held March 9 – 18. The Laws of Thermodynamics is Mateo […]

Nominees Announced for Zeno Mountain Award at MDC’s 35th Miami Film Festival

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There’s just 2 months to go until the 35th MDC Miami Film Festival is fully underway, and the full slate of nominees for one of the Festival’s new categories has already been announced. The universal distinction of the three features and four short films that make up this year’s Zeno Mountain Award candidates is that […]

‘The Florida Project’ Producers Kevin Chinoy and Francesca Silvestri to Receive Precious Gem Award at 35th Miami Film Festival

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TWO WORDS, AND ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE

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Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland’s ‘The Leisure Seeker’ is Big Winner at 2017 Gems Film Festival

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Argentina’s Shocking Drama ‘Paulina’ Returns to Miami

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Argentine Miami Film Festival Winners to World Premiere at TIFF

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Sparkling, Shining, Dazzling: First Two Jewels Unveiled for 2017 Gems Film Festival

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‘Memories Playback Like Movies’: A New Personal Documentary from Trinidad

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This past April for the third consecutive year, International Film Festival of Panama (IFF Panama) held their outstanding emerging filmmaker support program, Primera Mirada. Led by artistic director Diana Sanchez, this Central America/Caribbean-focused event provides some of the region’s most interesting voices to screen early cuts of their work in a safe space and receive […]

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR WATCH: WILL MEXICO BE NOMINATED IN 2018?

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A Call to Action from Your Film Festival

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What defunding the NEA would mean to Miami Dade College Cultural programs? The White House proposed budget for FY2018 officially recommends the complete defunding of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). At Miami Dade College (MDC), we strongly believe that arts have the power to enable people to see beyond their differences. Because of this, […]

In Person…Richard Gere

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In many of Richard Gere’s most popular roles, he plays a hero who earns our sympathies by revealing a deep vulnerability beneath his handsome, romantic, out-of-everyone’s-league exterior.  As Navy pilot hopeful Zack Mayo in An Officer and a Gentleman (82), Gere’s cockiness is upended twice; at a military hazing where Zack is forced to admit […]

Miami’s Moment

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by Jaie Laplante, Director of Programming This week in Telluride and Toronto, Miami native Barry Jenkins’ new feature film set and shot in Miami, Moonlight, is debuting, and the early reactions have been powerful from critics and festival audiences. It’s the first production financed by the 3-year-old distribution company A24, who in their short history […]

BEST MOVIE REVIEW OF THE SUMMER

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by Jaie Laplante, Director of Programming It’s the end of the summer movie season, and for as many movies as I saw over the summer, I may have read even more film criticism. This summer I feel there is an essential need to award not only best film (my choice: David Mackenzie’s amazing HELL OR […]

Live Forever? Mateo Gil Imagines The Implications

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By Jaie Laplante, Director of Programming, Miami Film Festival Mateo Gil is an important talent among his contemporaries in the Spanish film scene. He began his career 20 years ago as Alejandro Amenábar’s writing collaborator, working on the stories and screenplays of transcendent genre filmsThesis (1996) and Open Your Eyes (1997), as well as the Oscar-winning drama The Sea Inside (2004), […]

4 Reasons To See FROM AFAR This Weekend

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by Jaie Laplante, Director of Programming Lorenzo Vigas made history in September of last year when his debut feature film, From Afar (Desde allá), won the top prize, the Golden Lion for Best Film, at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, the world’s oldest major festival. Why? In 72 years, it was the first film from […]

The Wailing

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By Jaie Laplante, Director of Programming, Miami Film Festival The ranks of great Korean thrillers from the past decade or so – Oldboy, I Saw The Devil, Mother, The Chaser, The Man from Nowhere, The Yellow Sea – are about to be joined by Na Hong-jin’s kinetically frightening opus The Wailing, opening in Miami this […]

Coming Soon From Dominican Republic: Jeffrey

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      Three years ago on this site, I extolled the virtues of a new creative cinematic energy from the Dominican Republic. The film I discovered at that time, La montaña (2013), went on to win the Lexus Audience Award as Favorite Documentary of all the documentaries at our 2014 edition, and was the country’s […]

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