Miami Film Festival

A new Venezuelan film set to be featured at the Miami Film Festival depicts a story of loss and escape that paints a sobering picture of the country’s reality during the protests in 2017.

The Nuyorican actress and writer — best known for her portrayal of Maria on Sesame Street — is the subject of a new documentary STREET SMART: Lessons from a TV Icon. The film follows Manzano’s journey from her childhood in the Bronx to Carnegie Mellon University and eventually to becoming an Emmy Award-winning actress and writer.

The annual Miami Film Festival has become a prestigious platform for international, American, and Ibero-American filmmakers, welcoming luminaries such as Nicolas Cage, Sophia Loren, Antonio Banderas, Anne Hathaway, Spike Lee, Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, Rita Moreno, Alfonso Cuarón, and Ethan Hawke, among many others.

Six Miami-based filmmakers have been named the newest recipients of The Louies, a prestigious prize designed to preserve South Florida’s history and culture through the lens of documentary filmmaking.

The 12th edition of the Miami Film Festival GEMS, the organization’s fall midseason event, unveiled its full lineup of cinema from Oct. 29 to Nov. 5.

The award will be presented following a screening of Van Sant's latest film, “Dead Man’s Wire,” during a special live recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast.

In partnership with the Lynn & Louis Wolfson II Family Foundation, the program will award a total of $100,000 to six Miami-based documentary filmmakers, MFF officials announced Wednesday

The award honors Hawke’s illustrious career spanning more than three decades in film, theater, and television. The event

Interstate is a powerful new documentary by Miami-based filmmakers Oscar Corral and Haleem Muhsin. Miami's Overtown is among several communities featured in the film.

The Miami-based film Ethan Bloom will premiere on April 6 at the Olympia Theater, alongside 35 other films making their debut at the 42nd Miami Film Festival. The film follows Ethan as he embarks on a spiritual quest, bouncing between Catholicism and Judaism, all while handling a teenage boy's typical challenges: girls, bullies and parents.

For the 42nd year of the festival, opening Thursday, April 3, and running through Sunday, April 13, there is an impressive array of narratives and documentaries that are produced in the Miami.

The nearly century-old Olympia Theater will reopen as the opening night venue for the Miami Film Festival on April 3.