Breaking news! The Artist and the Model (El artista y la modela) received 13 Goya nominations this morning, including Best Picture and Best Director for our Tribute honoree, acclaimed Spanish director Fernando Trueba.  Miami International Film Festival is proud to be hosting the US PREMIERE of The Artist and the Model at this year’s 30th […]

The new era of accessible digital technology has unleashed a revolution of independent cinema within Cuba.  One of the most significant new films from this movement, as reported in this weekend’s The New York Times, is Carlos Lechuga’s debut feature film, Molasses (Melaza), which tells a story of social degradation in a sugar town whose […]

Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) and the Jonathan Levine Gallery, who represents Invader in NYC, hosted the first public appearance of the anonymous Paris-based artist Invader, known for his street art of mosaic tiles inspired by characters from video gaming’s primitive 8-bit years of the late ’70s.  On stage at the Colony Theatre, MIFF’s executive […]

MIFF 2012’s Knight Documentary Competition film, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, is now available for download on iTunes and Blu-ray and DVD via Amazon. First-time director Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop […]

Following its US Premiere gala at MIFF 2012, Heleno opens at MDC’s Tower Theater and O Cinema Miami Shores on Friday, Dec. 7th.   The life of Brazilian soccer star Heleno De Freitas, the pre-Pele idol of Rio de Janeiro sports fans, who shone briefly but brightly through the 1940s, is brilliantly suited to the classic, […]

Breaking news!  New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) has just announced its 2012 award winners and congratulations goes to Rachel Weisz who garnered the Best Actress prize. Weisz lit up the big screen at the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts during MIFF 2012’s gala screening of The Deep Blue Sea. […]

The highly spirited and sensual Angels of Sex, by Xavier Villaverde, which had its World Premiere at MIFF 2012, will be available On Demand & VOD on Dec. 4th and hitting theaters on Dec. 7th! Carla (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, who played the beautiful mermaid in the most recent Pirates of the Caribbean blockbuster) and Bruno (Llorenç […]

Scene from Madrid, 1987 MIFF 2012’s Madrid, 1987, by David Trueba, will return to MDC’s Tower Theater on Saturday, Nov. 24 at 6:20 PM  followed by a Q&A with producer Jessica Berman.  In the film, Miguel (José Sacristan), a veteran newspaper columnist in his 70s with a world-weary tone and the libido of a much […]

Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) will celebrate a milestone year next March 1st – 10th with Career Achievement Tributes honoring two remarkable directors: renowned Swedish writer-director Lasse Hallström, (My Life as a Dog, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape), and Spanish producer, writer and Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque, Chico & Rita). This marks the first […]

Tuyo’s exquisite fusion of new world flavors Ultimat Opening Night Party Celebrate the kick-off of the 30th Anniversary Miami International Film Festival, on Friday, March 1, 2013, where MIFF transforms the historic Dupont Building into an elegant playground with a sumptuous selection of food stations from the finest local restaurants, an endless flow of wine […]

Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) is launching a new Miami Future Cinema Critics (MFCC) program in celebration of its 30th anniversary (March 1-10, 2013) to provide Miami-based film aficionados with a fascinating opportunity to discover new cinema – outside of the roughly 600 films that are commercially released in the U.S. annually, and learn new […]

‘Ben Lee: Catch My Disease’ director, Amiel Courtin-Wilson Director Amiel Courtin-Wilson‘s labor of love, Ben Lee: Catch My Disease, featured in MIFF 2012’s Knight Documentary Competition category, is now available for pre-order on Amazon and will be released on DVD and via digital/video-on-demand outlets, including iTunes on November 6th.  Nearly a decade in the making, […]

‘First Position’ Q&A with director Bess Kargman at Regal South Beach Cinemas MIFF 2012’s Knight Documentary Competition hit, First Position, directed by Bess Kargman, will be released on DVD tomorrow, October 30th via Amazon, iTunes and will also be available on VOD. Kargman profiles six young dancers as they prepare for a chance to enter […]

 l to r: City of Miami Beach commissioner Michael Gongora, Jaie Laplante, Julio Jorquera Arriagada, Consul General of Chile Juan Luis Nilo, Andres Castillo As part of MIFF’s monthly dive-in film series at W South Beach in 2011, Chilean drama Mi último round (aka My Last Round), written and directed by Julio Jorquera Arriagada, will […]

Scene from Pedro Almodóvar’s Dark Habits (MIFF 1984) Miami International Film Festival will commemorate it’s 30th edition with a 29-day retrospective counting down one film from each year of the Festival’s fascinating history until Opening Night on March 1, 2013. The showcase will kick off on January 26, 2013 at MDC’s Tower Theater with a […]

In honor of MIFF’s 30th birthday we wanted to take the XXX campaign outside of its print and online ads and create something unconventional. Enter the GET UP KIDS, a group of local artists whose work can be seen throughout Wynwood (and in Rick Ross’s new music video). Once the talented group agreed to recreate […]

Executive Director Jaie Laplante and MIFF team hosted the MIAMI@tiff XXX party to kick off MIFF’s 30th edition (March 1-10, 2013) during the Toronto International Film Festival at Spice Route on September 11th. Guests included film industry VIPS Richard Lorber, President and CEO at Kino Lorber; Arianne Ayers and Maureen Masters from Magnolia Pictures; Jonathan Howell, VP Theatrical Distribution and Acquisitions at New Yorker Films; Nicholas Kaiser, Sales […]

Barbara Sukova, Margarethe von Trotta, Oliver Mahrdt Acclaimed German actress and director Margarethe von Trotta, who was honored with MIFF’s Career Achievement Tribute at 2010 Festival, will be the latest recipient of the Leo Baeck Medal on November 28th at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. The award is presented to individuals whose work resonated […]

MIFF’s first-ever animated Opening Night Film (2011) and 2012 Academy Award Nominee, Chico & Rita, is now available on Blu-Ray, DVD, On Demand and Digital Download.  Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle époque), famed Barcelona designer Javier Mariscal and Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger Bebo Valdés celebrate the music and culture of Cuba with an […]

Kirstin Scott Thomas and Ethan Hawke MIFF’s 2012 Official Selection The Woman in the Fifth, by Pawel Pawlikowski, will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on September 18, 2012 from Amazon or for download via iTunes. A tour-de-force performance by Ethan Hawke caps this mysterious tale of an American writer cracking up in Paris. Tom […]