Made In MIA Award

Made in MIA Feature Film Award and Made in MIA Short Film Award is a competition for jury-selected films of any genre that features a qualitatively and quantitatively substantial portion of its content (story, setting and actual filming location) in South Florida (Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and/or Monroe counties) and that best utilizes its story and theme for universal resonance.

2024 WINNERS 


Made in MIA Feature Film Award ($25,000)

Winner: Mountains, directed by Monica Sorelle.

 

Made in MIA Shorts Film Award ($10,000) 

Winner: Konpa, directed by Al’lkens Plancher.
Honorable mention: Jack and Sam, directed by Jordan Matthew Horowitz.

2023 WINNERS

Febrero, directed by Hansel Porras Garcia

Plantadas, directed by Lilo Vilaplana and Camilo Vilaplana

2022 WINNERS

First Prize ($30,000): You Can Always Come Home, directed by Juan Luis Matos.

Second Prize ($15,000): In Beauty It Is Unfinished, directed by Greko Sklavounos. 

Third Prize ($10,000): Un Pequeño Corte, directed by Marianna Serrano.

2021 WINNERS

FEATURE WINNER
Roberto Salinas’ Cuban Dancer

Jury: Dudley Alexis, Aeden O’Connor Agurcia, and Carmen Pelaez.

SHORT WINNER
Caro Hernandez’s “Caro Comes Out”

Jury: Dudley Alexis, Alicia K. Harris and Aaron Stewart-Ahn.

2020 WINNERS

FEATURE WINNER
Dudley Alexis’ When Liberty Burns

Jury: Stephen Arboite, Rachel Bleemer, and Kevin Chinoy.

SHORT WINNER
Keisha Rae Witherspoon’s “T”

Jury: Patrick Bresnan, Jayme Gershen, and Ivete Lucas.

2019 WINNER
FEATURE WINNER: Ivette Lucas and Patrick Bresnan’s Pahokee

SHORT WINNER (Tied):Faren Humes’ “Liberty”, Jayme Gershen’s “Six Degrees of Immigration“

Jury: Victoria Rogers, Xander Robin, and Valerie Brooks.

2018 WINNER
David Abel’s Gladesmen: The Last of the Sawgrass Cowboys

Jury: Victoria Rogers, Brad Abrahams, and Carmen Pelaez.