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Celebrate the art, culture, and business of fashion through film at the 5th Annual Miami Fashion Film Festival. Join us for a series of screenings, filmmaker talks, workshops and special events that explore the historical interdependence between art and fashion and its influences.
Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus 300 Northeast 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33132 (Map)
What makes a score unforgettable?
Taking a peek at how composers developed some of the most iconic scores in history, SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY follows the creative struggles of designing a modern soundtrack from scratch, featuring some of cinema’s most recognized names in film music. SCORE explores the power and influence of film scores in the modern world while revealing the evolution of sound and how composers assemble music the complements a picture to achieve powerful reactions from worldwide audiences.
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center 10950 SW 211 ST, Cutler Bay, FL 33189 (Map)
Donté Clark is a young poet who transcends the violence in his hometown by writing about his experiences. Growing up in Richmond, California, a city haunted by a fatal turf war, Donté and the like-minded youth of his city mount an urban adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet.’
With the hope of starting a dialogue about violence, will Richmond crush Donté’s idealism? Or will Donté end Richmond’s cycle of trauma?
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center 10950 SW 211 ST, Cutler Bay, FL 33189 (Map)
Abandoned by his birth parents and unable to speak for himself, DJ Savarese ("Deej") found not only a loving family but also a life in words, which he types on a tect-to-voice synthesizer. As he makes his way through high school and dreams of college, he confronts the terrors of his past, obstacles to inclusion, and the sometimes paralyzing beauty of his own senses. In his advocacy on behalf of other nonspeaking autistics, he embraces filmmaking and poetry, and discovers what having a voice can truly mean.
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center 10950 SW 211 ST, Cutler Bay, FL 33189 (Map)
Catalina
786-573-5300
Black youth stereotypes are turned upside down in the
feature documentary film Purple Dreams. A two and a half year journey serves as
an inspirational window into the lives of inner-city, at-risk students who
succeed at their passion while embracing the transformative power of their arts
education.
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center - 33189 10950 SW 211 ST, Cutler Bay, FL 33189 (Map)
LOOK AND SEE is a cinematic portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting valuesof rural America in the era of industrial agriculture, as seen through the mind’s eye ofwriter, farmer, and activist, Wendell Berry. The first documentary about Berry, undoubtedly one of America’s most significant living writers (see “About Wendell Berry” below), LOOK AND SEE was filmed in and around the rolling hills of Henry County, Kentucky – where Berry has lived and farmed since the mid-1960’s. Filmmaker Laura Dunn skillfully weaves Berry’s poetic and prescient words with gorgeous cinematography and the testimonies of his family and neighbors, all of whom are being deeply affected by the industrial and economic changes to their agrarian way of life.
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center 10950 SW 211 ST, Cutler Bay, FL 33189 (Map)
Catalina
786-5735-300
