What to Stream While Quarantined: Miami Film Festival Edition

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As we all try to navigate the quickly-changing film landscape in the time of coronavirus, we’re committed to continuing our mission of connecting art with audiences, and bringing you world-class cinema to watch on a daily basis. With 37 wonderful editions of Miami Film Festival behind us, we’ve assembled a list of some of our […]

A Look at Gonzalo Maza’s THIS IS CRISTINA, 2020 Winner, Jordan Ressler Award, 37th Miami Film Festival

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The 37th edition of Miami Film Festival ended prematurely on March 12, 2020, with 20% of the Festival’s official selection left unscreened. One of those films was the eagerly anticipated US premiere of Gonzalo Maza’s directorial debut, THIS IS CRISTINA. However, the jury members of the Festival’s Jordan Ressler First Feature Award were able to [...]

WHEN LIBERTY BURNS and LA LLORONA Win Top Jury Awards At 37th Miami Film Festival; THE FIGHT and 90 MINUTES Take Audience Awards

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WHEN LIBERTY BURNS and LA LLORONA Win Top Jury Awards At 37th Miami Film Festival; THE FIGHT and 90 MINUTES Take Audience Awards FiGa Films’ Los Lobos & This is Cristina take other major awards When Liberty Burns, an incisive look at Miami’s infamous 1980 race riots in Liberty City stemming from the fatal police […]

2020 Miami Film Festival: Programmer Picks

Jaie Laplante Executive Director and Director of Programming Boys State This documentary is a fresh reminder of the crucial role of leadership in our society. For years, the American Legion has been organizing summer camps for high schoolers in nearly every U.S. state to stage mock election campaigns as a means of understanding how the [...]

All About Opening: Charles Willeford & ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’

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The lineup for the 2020 Miami Film Festival has been revealed, and with it comes a sexy kick off that sets the perfect tone for our 37th edition. On March 6th, the historic Olympia Theater will steam up with The Burnt Orange Heresy, starring Donald Sutherland, Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, and Mick Jagger. Having had […]

‘The Two Popes’ Wins Gigi Guermont Audience Award at 2019 Gems Film Festival

Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Miami Film Festival (MFF) announced today that Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes is the winner of the MIAMI GEMS 2019 Gigi Guermont Audience Award, as MFF’s annual fall extension wrapped on Sunday night with record box office and with attendance at 98% capacity across the entire event. The festival took place Oct. 10-13. Inspired by […]

2019 Gems Film Festival: Staff Picks

Marriage Story: The central marriage in Noah Baumbach’s career-best film begins in such love, it’s frightening and bewildering to witness its stunning unravelling. With each successive choice facing theater director Charlie (Adam Driver) and his muse/actress wife Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) as they progress through a break-up, we ask ourselves: What would I have done or […]

Meet Our 2019 Wolfson CinemaSlam Award Winner for Best Film

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University of Miami film student producer Cathleen Dean is part of the filmmaking team that won Miami Film Festival’s Wolfson Cinemaslam Award for Best Film Featuring Archival Material in 2019, for “Happy to Be Nappy”, a music video for Florida musician Alana DaCosta, directed by graduate student Xiao Che. Dean was awarded $5,000 cash. In […]

Festival Programmer Lauren Cohen Promoted to Associate Director of Programming

Miami Film Festival is pleased to announce the promotion of programmer Lauren Cohen to the position of Associate Director of Programming. In her new role, Cohen will work closely with Director of Programming Jaie Laplante on shaping the Festival’s overall content strategy, philosophy and direction. “Lauren’s sharp eye for great cinema and her affinity for […]

Unmissable Festival Favorite ‘Diamantino’ Returns

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Imagine a Roger Moore-era James Bond film where the Bond girl takes the lead role. In fact, she isn’t a girl at all, but rather a vapid yet sweet, gorgeous male soccer player whose life is upended by global conspiracies and familial trauma. This is Diamantino and it has everything: undercover lesbian agents in love, characters posing […]

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

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

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Carl Spence, Thom Powers, Kiva Reardon, Diana Cadavid: Miami Film Festival’s Dream Team

Miami Film Festival is proud to announce new and returning members of its program team as the 2017-18 season gets underway, leading up to the 35th edition of the Festival, March 9 -18, 2018, under the directon of the Festival’s Executive Director and Director of Programming, Jaie Laplante. NEW to the Miami program team this year […]

Miami Film Festival Titles Recognized at 2017 Goya Awards

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With the Goya Awards taking place just a few days away, we’re excited to be cheering on five titles that screened at the 2016 Miami Film Festival & Miami Film Festival’s GEMS, as well as four highly anticipated films that will premiere at the 34th annual Miami Film Festival in March:  Smoke & Mirrors, Maria […]

Unifrance and Miami Film Festival to Join Forces for Second Year

After a very successful debut in 2016, UniFrance and Miami Film Festival are pleased to announce the 2nd Edition of Mercado del Cine Francés en Miami, the French film sales market will take place within the 34th Miami Film Festival activities on March 5-7, 2017.   As a prominent film festival that welcomes agents, buyers and […]

Industry Registration Now Open

  Accreditation for VeoMiami, the industry market of the 2017 Miami Film Festival (March 3– 12, 2017), is now open until February 10, 2017 to all film professionals, including (but not limited to) sales agents, buyers, producers, production executives, craftspeople, financiers, festival programmers, film commissioners, film publicists, and exhibitors. Accreditation gives the following benefits: Access […]

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