October 01, 2025

Today, we’ve unveiled the lineup for our 12th Miami Film Festival GEMS, the Festival’s fall midseason event taking place from Oct. 29 – Nov. 5. GEMS will feature 40 films from over 20 countries, opening with No Other Choice with director Park Chan-wook in attendance to receive the Precious Gem Master Award. The Festival will ...

September 30, 2025

Legendary director Gus Van Sant will receive a Precious Gem Awards during Miami Film Festival GEMS. He’ll receive the award immediately following a screening of his latest film Dead Man’s Wire during a live recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast moderated by Scott Feinberg, Executive Editor of Awards, in front of a festival ...

September 18, 2025

Miami Film Festival GEMS announced that Dylan O’Brien will receive the Vanguard Award, which is presented to artists whose work reflects depth, originality, and a bold, distinctive vision for contemporary cinema. He’ll receive the award during a Q&A about his career immediately following a screening of his new film Twinless, in front of a festival ...

September 10, 2025

Miami Film Festival GEMS & Variety will present Ethan Hawke with the Variety Virtuoso Award on Sunday, November 2. The event will take place at Miami Dade College Wolfson Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. The honor will be for his achievements over more than three decades in the industry across film, theater and television. His new ...

August 21, 2025

This year, to mark GEMS as a permanent cinematic staple in Miami, the Miami Film Festival has “inked-up” with local tattoo artist Peach to create this year’s fun & spooky festival poster artwork.  As their Instagram states, Peach’s artist style offers “bold tattoos to wear with a grin”. “For this year’s GEMS poster, I wanted ...

May 25, 2025

Iranian writer-director Jafar Panahi was awarded with the 78th Annual Cannes Film Festival’s top prize—the Palme d’Or—for his new film Un Simple Accident. In 2022, Miami Film Festival awarded Panahi with our top prize—the Precious Gem—for his film No Bears. Panahi accepted his Precious Gem via audio recording while incarcerated in an Iranian prison, where ...

April 14, 2025

The Miami Film Festival is pleased to announce the Jury and Audience Award Winners from its 42nd Edition, with Maryse Legagneur’s The Last Meal taking the Festival’s top prize. See all the winners and runner-ups below! $15,000 MARIMBAS Award The award is an international competition for the jury-selected narrative feature film that best exemplifies richness ...

March 06, 2025

We had the super fun honor of collaborating with the local creative agency, Macias Creative, on this year’s beautiful Festival Campaign. Below is a statement from the team at Macias: “Miami Film Festival is a place that celebrates big characters, both on and off the screen. The concept and poster behind this year’s campaign is ...

March 03, 2025

For the last six months, we’ve been hard at work to perfect a fresh look for the same Miami Film Festival you know and love. Inspiration: “Magic Hour” Taken from movie-making slang, it refers to the time of day shortly after sunrise or before sunset, when the brightness of the sky matches streetlights, headlights, and ...

January 08, 2025

Six Miami-based filmmakers are set to bring South Florida’s compelling untold stories to life as the inaugural winners of The Louies, an initiative of  the Miami Film Festival sponsored by the Lynn & Louis Wolfson II Family Foundation. These filmmakers will receive a combined $100,000 to create documentaries exploring South Florida’s history, cultural identity and ...