GEMS: October 30 – November 3, 2024
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.
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