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Wild Tales
At this morning’s 87th Academy Award nominations, films from Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival made a strong showing! From the upcoming 32nd edition of the Festival (March 6 – 15, 2015), Argentina’s Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes), our opening night film, is nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film Category.
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“The Bigger Picture”, The Salt of the Earth
Additional films from the 32nd edition nominated are Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribero Salgado’s The Salt of the Earth (which will be screened as one of the Festival’s Knight Documentary Achievement Award films), nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. Also nominated (in the Best Animated Short Film category) is Daisy Jacobs’ “The Bigger Picture”, which will screen at the Festival as part of the Park Grove Grand Jury Shorts Competition.
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Finding Vivian Maier, “The Phone Call”
From the 2014 Miami International Film Festival, our Knight Documentary Grand Jury award-winning film Finding Vivian Maier by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, is also nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary Feature category. See John Maloof on the Festival’s red carpet last year in this episode of ACCESSMIFF. A fifth Festival official selection nominated for an Oscar, this time in the Best Live-Action Short Film category, is “The Phone Call” starring Sally Hawkins, which was screened in the 31st Miami International Film Festival’s Papi Shorts Competition, presented by Macy’s.
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Boyhood
Special presentations and Miami premieres for Miami Film Society members (held at private screenings throughout the year) made impressive showings in several categories. Boyhood, which was a Miami Film Society presentation in June, is nominated for a total of six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. Inherent Vice, which was the special presentation for December, is nominated for two Oscars, including Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Ida, Timbuktu
Miami Dade College’s Tower Theater is currently screening Poland’s Best Foreign Language Oscar contender, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida (click here for showtimes), and on the calendar for February is Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu, from Mauritania, nominated in the same category.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
