The MIAMI@tiff XXX Party

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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 Agent at Memento Films International; Gunnar Almer, Associate Director International Department at the Swedish Film Institute; Tom Davia, Shoreline Entertainment; Stacey Hawkins from Liberty Entertainment Group; Andres Bayona, Proimagenes Colombia; Monika Wagenberg, Artistic Director, FICCI; Pituka Ortega de Heilbron, Director, Panama IFF; and filmmakers Jody Shapiro, How to Start Your Own Country (MIFF 2011); Juan Gordon, Cell 211. To top off the festivities, the guests spiced up the afternoon with a special “XXX cocktail”— a sublime mixture of wine, vodka, sake, and papaya juice.  view gallery

Jaie Laplante

Jaie Laplante is the Miami Film Festival's executive director and director of programming. Learn more about Jaie on Programmers.