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GEMS: October 30 – November 3, 2024

Mar 23

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 […]

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Oct 14

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

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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 […]

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Aug 7

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 […]

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Jul 18

Festival Programmer Lauren Cohen Promoted to Associate Director of Programming

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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 […]

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Jul 27

Miami Film Festival Congratulates ’The Accused,’ Official Competition Selection at 75th Venice Film Festival

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Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival congratulates director Gonzalo Tobal, Rei Cine, K&S Films and Film Factory Entertainment for the Main Competition selection of The Accused (Acusada) as part of the 75th edition of the prestigious Venice International Film Festival. The Accused was a recipient of a cash development grant from Miami Film 2016, an initiative of Miami Film […]

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Aug 22

Argentine Miami Film Festival Winners to World Premiere at TIFF

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Jul 12

Monument Puts Miami Grand Prize Winner in U.S. Theaters

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Mar 22

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, […]

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Feb 2

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 […]

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Nov 22

Unifrance and Miami Film Festival to Join Forces for Second Year

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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 […]

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Nov 16

Industry Registration Now Open

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  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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Jul 25

‘Embrace of the Serpent’ Sweep Platino Awards

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Ciro Guerra’s EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL GEMS 2015) won in seven of the eight categories for which it was up for at the 3rd Platino Ibero-American Film Awards on Sunday night in Uruguay, including Best Feature Film and Best Director for Guerra. Another MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL GEMS 2015 film, THE CLUB, by Pablo Larraín was awarded […]

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Jul 13

‘Restless Love (Amores urbanos) Will Compete for the IV Sebastiane Latino Award

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Vera Egito’s debut feature, RESTLESS LOVE (AMORES URBANOS), which had its World Premiere at the 2016 Miami Film Festival, is one of the six contenders for the IV Sebastiane Latino Award, to be presented at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival in September 2016. The 2015 prize went to another Miami Festival film, BUTTERFLY (MARIPOSA), by Marcos […]

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Apr 28

Miami Film Festival Alumni Head to 2016 Cannes Film Festival

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The 2016 Cannes Film Festival line-up was recently revealed, and it’s just as glitzy and star-studded as ever. With the world-renowned festival heading into its 69th edition, we look back on some of the Miami Film Festival’s esteemed alumni who are premiering films that are sure to make a splash at Cannes, taking place May […]

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Apr 15

Miami Film Festival Selections Earn Recognition in Mexico’s 58th Ariel Awards Nominations

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A Monster With a Thousand Heads actress Jana Raluy   Here at Miami Film Festival, we pride ourselves on bringing you the best of world cinema, with a special focus on Ibero-American programming. So it’s no surprise to see that two of our acclaimed Mexican films that screened at the 2016 Festival are receiving the […]

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Jan 21

Sundance Announces New ‘Art of Nonfiction’ Initiative Supporting Innovative Documentary Filmmaking

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[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”] In recent years, much of the focus in documentary filmmaking has been on content: what’s the best story to tell, not necessarily what’s the most cinematic way to tell it.  Add […]

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Dec 15

Miami International Film Festival Boasts 54 Goya Award Nominations Ahead of Spanish-Rich 2016 Line-Up

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[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”] On the heels of announcing our Opening Night film My Big Night (Mi Gran Noche) along with a rich slate of diverse films from Spain, nominees have been revealed for the […]

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Sep 18

Oscar Candidates at 2015 Gems Film Festival

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With our fall festival, GEMS, just one month away, it’s easy to forget that we’re quickly heading into Oscar season. Around this time every year, countries outside of the U.S. have the opportunity to submit a film to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, all in the hope of being one of the […]

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Jun 1

Chile is Winner of Cannes’ First Documentary Award

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By Jaie Laplante, Executive Director & Director of Programming Amidst grumblings that the world’s most important film gathering in Cannes disparages the documentary genre (only five documentaries have appeared in the Official Competition in the past 40 years) , France’s national Civil Society of Multimedia Authors this year initiated L’Oeil d’or, a new award to […]

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May 26

Argentina Wins Big In Critic’s Week (CANNES)

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By Jaie Laplante, Executive Director & Director of Programming [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”] The 34-year-old Argentine filmmaker Santiago Mitre made a big impact in the Critic’s Week at Cannes last week with his second feature, […]

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