GEMS: October 30 – November 3, 2024
Faith-based cinema has been on the steady rise for a while now. Films like Heaven is for Real, God’s Not Dead and Miracles from Heaven have proven to be extremely lucrative, and Hollywood has taken notice, bringing what was once a distinctly niche genre into the mainstream. These films have managed to pull in big name […]
When The Social Network came out back in 2010, more than one film critic dubbed it “a movie that defines a generation,” and it was a sentiment I despised. Yes, the plot revolved around social media. But the crux of that film had nothing to do with the millennial mindset, and the characters at its […]
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 […]
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Every year, Miami Film Festival welcomes a steady stream of special guests, all of whom add a certain zest to Festival screenings and events. At the recent Festival back in March, there was one guest in particular that stood out: Javier Camara. The star of Pedro Almodovar films such as Talk to Her, Bad Education […]
When describing the plot of Elle, one may feel the need to tread lightly. That’s because director Paul Verhoeven’s latest pushes the boundaries of political correctness and – perhaps in some minds – plain good taste. It’s a movie that has every reason not to work, every reason to incite outrage. But against all odds, Elle turns […]
Catherine Deneuve is the Parisian blonde bombshell best known for films such as The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Belle du Jour and Roman Polanski’s Repulsion. Often drawn to the darker corners of cinema, Isabelle Huppert is the alluring, mysterious icon best known for her sadistic role in Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher and La Ceremonie. On December […]
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] As we wrap up another successful edition of our fall film event GEMS, we’re excited to introduce yet another incredible film into our Audience Award canon: I, Daniel Blake. Directed by […]
One of the greatest delights of the Festival life is finding out what will be crowned the audience favorite. For GEMS, that tradition started in 2015, where we unveiled the Gigi Guermont GEMS Audience Award. Genevieve “Gigi” Guermont was an ardent supporter of the arts and a cherished member of the Festival’s host committee, making it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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), […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of the best perks of being a Miami Film Society member is that it broadens your cinematic horizons. With free monthly screenings specially curated by the Miami Film Festival’s expert programmers, it’s easy to find yourself seeing films you may have never sought out on your own. And that’s when the magic happens. We […]
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 […]
Havana Motor Club has a long, cherished history with Miami International Film Festival. One of the most fascinating events of the 2014 Festival was filmmaker Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt’s special presentation on his creative process in constructing Havana Motor Club, his portrait of Cuba’s top underground drag racers of classic American cars. Attendees were lucky enough to be treated to […]
Next Friday, August 21st, the Spanish actor Javier Gutiérrez (above, right) will travel to Miami to mark the occasion of the U.S. commercial release debut of Alberto Rodriguez’s acclaimed film Marshland (La isla mínima) with an event screening and reception at MDC’s Tower Theater. After many years of prolific work as one of Spain’s most beloved […]
by Jaie Laplante, Executive Director & Director of Programming Ten years ago this very month, Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain debuted at the Venice Film Festival, breaking ground as a “gay Western” that examined a dramatic life-long sexual/romantic embroilment between two men played by A-list Hollywood actors and eventually defied conventional wisdom by grossing close to $100 […]
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