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The Miami Film Festival has announced its prize winners aft wrapping nan 43rd version of nan cinematic arena successful South Florida.
On nan Road (En El Camino), directed by David Pablos, won nan festival’s apical juried prize, nan $10,000 Marimbas Award. The drama-thriller centers connected Veneno, a young man “surviving connected charm, instinct, and fleeting intersexual encounters,” who seeks a measurement retired of nan life he’s living. “He finds it successful Muñeco erstwhile he persuades nan trucker to return him north. Together, they participate nan insular world of long-haul trucking, wherever men are expected to beryllium silent and vulnerability is forbidden.”
Osvaldo Sanchez and Victor Prieto Simental prima successful nan film, which won nan Queer Lion astatine nan Venice Film Festival. It besides won Best Film successful nan Venice Horizons conception and 2 awards astatine nan Morelia International Film Festival successful Mexico. The Marimbas Award astatine MFF recognizes a movie successful world title that “best exemplifies richness and resonance for cinema’s future.”
The Made successful MIA Feature Film Award went to The Old Man and nan Parrot, directed by Gabriel de Varona. It was selected by a assemblage from among films successful title pinch “a important information of its contented (story, setting, and existent filming location) successful South Florida (Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and/or Monroe counties) and that champion utilizes their stories and themes for cosmopolitan resonance.” The grant comes pinch a rate prize of $15,000.
The $10,000 Jordan Ressler First Feature Award — created by nan South Florida family of nan precocious Jordan Ressler and sponsored by nan Jordan Ressler Charitable Fund – was presented to Second Victims, directed by Zinnini Elkington. The grant successful that class goes to a filmmaker making a characteristic communicative debut.
The Documentary Achievement Award went to TheyDream, directed by William D. Caballero. The characteristic is “a profoundly individual autobiographical documentary that traces really creation tin go a lifeline successful nan aftermath of loss,” notes nan Miami Film Festival program. “Drawing connected 2 decades of mixed-media filmmaking, Director William D. Caballero revisits his family’s history successful Fayetteville, North Carolina, interweaving caller 2D and 3D animations pinch live-action vérité, archival materials, and raw, profoundly quality conversations pinch his mother.”
Earning honorable mentions successful nan Documentary Achievement class were Revolution’s Daughter, directed by Thaddeus D. Matula, and Everybody to Kenmure Street, directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra. The second film, executive produced by Oscar victor Emma Thompson, examines a protestation successful Glasgow, Scotland that prevented nan U.K.’s Home Office from driving disconnected pinch 2 men seized successful an migration raid.
● The Audience Feature Film Award went to Comandante Fritz, directed by Pavel Giroud. First runner-up was Milly, Queen of Merengue, directed by Leticia Tonos Paniagua, and 2nd runner-up went to I Swear, directed by Kirk Jones.
● The Made successful MIA Audience Award went to The Mecca: Legends of Traz Powell Stadium, directed by Nicanson Guerrier. First runner-up was Tropical Park, directed by Hansel Porras Garcia, and 2nd runner-up was An Instrumental Start: A Model for nan Nation, directed by Brian Bayerl and Mike Huter.
● The Audience Documentary Film Award was earned by Runa Simi, directed by Augusto Zegarra. First runner-up was Revolution’s Daughter (the aforementioned Thaddeus D. Matula film), and 2nd runner-up was Perseverance, directed by Juan Carlos Martín.
These are nan winners successful nan Short Film Awards categories:
● Made successful MIA Short Film Award sponsored by ArtesMiami ($5,000) went to September All Over, directed by Kali Kahn. The runner-up was Colada, directed by Carmen Pelaez.
● Miami International Short Film Award ($4,000) went to Ovary-Acting, directed by Ida Melum, pinch A Hand to Hold, directed by Philip Clyde-Smith arsenic runner-up. The grant is fixed to a jury-selected short movie (30 min. aliases less) of immoderate genre from anyplace successful nan world.
● Reel South Short Award ($1,000) went to If You Really Love Me, Outlive Me, directed by Saskia d’Altena and Alejandro Ruax.
● Short Documentary Film Award ($1,000), presented by nan University of Miami School of Communication, Department of Cinematic Arts and co-presented pinch UM’s Bill Cosford Cinema, went to Oh Whale, directed by Winslow Crane-Murdoch.
● Florida Cinemaslam Award ($1,000), portion of nan Festival’s yearly Florida assemblage student movie competition, went to Ghost of The Marsh, directed by Ross Widener.
● The Audience Short Film Award went to One Last Order, directed by Lauren DeFilippo and Sam Soko. First runner-up was The Floor Remembers, directed by Jayme Gershen, and 2nd runner-up was Beast of nan Seine, directed by Jon Portman.
Miami Dade College puts connected nan Miami Film Festival and its sister event, Miami Film Festival GEMS. The Miami Film Festival, which ran from April 9-19, is considered nan preeminent showcase for “Ibero-American cinema successful nan U.S., and a awesome motorboat pad for each world and documentary cinema. The yearly Festival welcomes much than 45,000 assemblage members and much than 400 filmmakers, producers, talent and manufacture professionals. It is nan only awesome show housed wrong a assemblage aliases university.”
