NAME OF FESTIVAL: Miami Film Festival
SINCE: 1984
WHERE: Miami, Florida, USA
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Miami Film Festival is a world-class platform for International and Ibero-American films. The Festival showcases the work of the world’s best emerging and established filmmakers to the diverse cosmopolitan community of Miami.
The Festival is renowned for vibrant filmmaker-audience interactions, world-class parties and screening venues, and cash awards totaling more than $100,000 in competition categories.
Miami Film Festival
Miami International Film Festival (MiamiFF) unveiled the official poster for the 32nd edition, featuring legendary writer, producer and director Orson Welles strolling the Miami Beach boardwalk in 1943. Adding a layer of Welles-ian mystery, the photographer of this remarkable 70-year-old image is unknown. So whodunit? The festival invites the public to help solve this mystery as it gears up for its international film premieres and festival activities taking place March 6 – 15, 2015.
Fading Gigolo
Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the popular Lexus Audience Award presented to two films for Best Documentary and Best Feature. The winners were Fading Gigolo directed by John Turturro (USA), which won Best Feature, and The Mountain (La montaña) directed by Tabaré Blanchard (Dominican Republic), which won Best Documentary.
A WOLF AT THE DOOR (O LOBO ATRÁS DA PORTA)
Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) which celebrated its 31st anniversary edition March 7 to 16, 2014, culminated in its annual Awards Night Ceremony, with A WOLF AT THE DOOR (O LOBO ATRÁS DA PORTA) walking away with the Knight Grand Jury Prize and the Grand Jury Best Director for the director Fernando Coimbra. A WOLF AT THE DOOR is the complicated, edge-of-your-seat, fact-based story of the disappearance of a young girl in suburban Rio.
Family United (La gran familia Española)
49 films are making their World, International, North American, and U.S. Premieres at the upcoming 31st Miami International Film Festival (MIFF), opening next week. The Miami International Film Festival, a program of Miami Dade College’s MDCulture, will run March 7 to 16, 2014).
From this year’s lineup, MIFF will screen seven feature films and 17 short films making their World Premieres, three films will make their International Premieres, 12 films will make their North American Premieres, and six films will be screening for the first time in the U.S. There will also be three North American premiering short films and one U.S. premiering short film.
ROB THE MOB directed by Raymond De Felitta and starring Andy Garcia
Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the films selected to screen during its 31st edition of the annual 10-day event, which runs March 7 to 16, 2014. The Festival will open with the North American premiere of ELSA & FRED directed by Michael Radford. Oscar winners Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer play the titular characters originated by China Zorrilla and Manuel Alexandre in this remake of the 2008 release of the Argentine/Spanish film of the same name. Also in the cast are Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden; as well as George Segal, Chris Noth, James Brolin, Wendell Pierce, Jaime Camil and Osvaldo Rios.
The Festival‘s annual Awards Night gala will wrap with the World premiere of ROB THE MOB directed by Raymond De Felitta and starring Andy Garcia. Rob the Mob also stars Michael Pitt, Ray Romano, Burt Young, Griffin Dunne, Frank Whaley, Cathy Moriarty, Aida Turturro, Yul Vazquez and Nina Arianda.
15 Years + 1 Day (15 años y 1 día) (Spain, directed by Gracia Querejeta)
Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) taking place March 7 to 16th, announced an additional 42 titles from 22 countries to be showcased in two non-competition categories, Cinema 360° and Doc-You-Up. Films include Goya Awards Best Picture nominees 15 YEARS + 1 DAY (15 años y 1 día), Cannibal (Caníbal), FAMILY UNITED (La gran familia Española), and LIVING IS EASY WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados), The 42 titles announced join the previously announced FOOSBALL (Metegol), from director Juan José Campanella, in MIFF’s Official Selection for the 2014 Festival.
The 31st Miami International Film Festival (MIFF), taking place runs March 7 to 16, 2014, will host the U.S. premiere of Oscar-winning director Juan José Campanella’s latest film FOOSBALL (METEGOL), a Spanish-Argentine produced animated film that has broken the Argentinian 2013 box-office record for the highest grossing film premiere in Argentina.
Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) will world premiere 11 short films documenting a project by a group of nationally and internationally renowned artists commissioned by The Arts Initiative and curated by Primary Projects, at the Festival’s 31st edition taking place March 7 to16, 2014.
2013 Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the five film selections for its VeoMiami industry initiative, the 10th MiamiEncuentros. Miami Encuentros aims to facilitate and support the completion of Latin American and U.S. Hispanic feature film projects in post-production and propel them towards their debuts on the international stage, via a post-production prize of USD$10,000 for one winning project as selected by a jury of industry professionals.
The five selected projects for Miami Encuentros 2013 are:
Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the five film selections for its VeoMiami industry initiative, the 10th MiamiEncuentros.
Miami Encuentros aims to facilitate and support the completion of Latin American and U.S. Hispanic feature film projects in post-production and propel them towards their debuts on the international stage, via a post-production prize of USD$10,000 for one winning project as selected by a jury of industry professionals.
The five selected projects for Miami Encuentros 2013 are:
2013 Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the complete line-up for new category addition Lee Brian Schrager’s Culinary Cinema, featuring films with a culinary twist.
Lee Brian Schrager’s Culinary Cinema will open on Sunday, March 3rd, with the North American premiere of Eric Belhassem’s Why Did You Leave?. The documentary features Jacquin and Suaudeau, as well as their French contemporaries, Roland Villard, Alain Uzan and Emmanuel Bassoleil. The film highlights a group exceptional French gastronomic chefs and their decision to leave their homes and rebuild their lives in Brazil, meshing their continental sensibilities with the rhythms of their new home.
The other two films which will screen as part of Lee Brian Schrager’s Culinary Cinema category are Meat Hooked and Oma & Bella.
Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) will feature 45 films making their World, International, North American, and U.S. premieres. From this year’s lineup, MIFF will screen 10 feature films making their World premiere, five films will make their International premiere, nine films will make their North American premiere, and 16 films will be screening for the first time in the U.S.
Premiering films will be shown at Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, Regal South Beach, MDC’s Tower Theater, Coral Gables Art Cinema, Miami Beach Cinematheque, and O Cinema in Miami, Florida. The 30th edition of Miami International Film Festival runs March 1-10, 2013.