Miami Film Festival

After three years managed by the City of Miami, the Tower Theater is set to return to its longtime managers at MDC ahead of its 100th anniversary.

GEMS, the Miami Film Festival’s fall showcase, has a different selection process from the festival’s spring edition. While the spring edition accepts submissions, “GEMS is purely curation,” says Director of Programming Lauren Cohen, with films that have premiered at major festivals such as Toronto, Telluride, Berlin, Cannes and Venice.

The star-studded Fall movie season kicks off as Miami Film Festival GEMS returns Thursday, Oct. 29. Organized by Miami Dade College, the festival serves as a prime destination for early award-season previews. It runs through Thursday, Nov. 5.

Backed by $100,000 in direct funding, the program aims to champion Miami-based filmmakers by helping them capture the region’s rich, complex history and vibrant culture for the big screen.

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