Miami Film Festival

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.

This year’s GEMS will take place in several venues in Miami beginning Wednesday, Oct. 30 through Sunday, Nov. 3, featuring 30 films from more than fifteen countries.

Grammy-Award-winning producer and an authority on cinema, Nat Chediak, joins WLRN's Carlos Frías to discuss his career and legacy in South Florida. He describes himself as the black sheep of his family, having to fight to be able to pursue the arts. Chediak is also the founder of the Miami Film Festival.

Donna Kalil, a Python Elimination Specialist with the South Florida Water Management District, is at the center of the documentary "Python Huntress" being featured in this year's Miami Film Festival.

Filmmaker Jose Navas joins Carlos Frías to talk about his new film, "Awake Before Dawn," which is set at the Opa-locka Hialeah Flea Market and is premiering at the Miami Film Festival. Plus, imagine having your first kiss on stage — in front of a live audience. That moment led Nicole Perry to become an intimacy coordinator. She joins to tell us about the behind-the-scenes of making steamy scenes feel safe.

Three films at the 40th Annual Miami Film Festival presents the costs of the Cuban revolution for the island nation and some of its artists — irreparable might-have-beens, never-will-be’s, and exiles.

Parsley tells the story of a family trapped in the 1937 massacre of Black Haitians in the Dominican Republic ordered by the brutal and racist dictator Rafael Trujillo.

Governor Ron DeSantis has a proposal to end Florida’s current standardized testing program. A judge ruled against Florida's anti-riot Law. Is it enforceable anymore? Plus, a short film made in Miami tackles homelessness and mental health.