04/04/2025 to 04/13/2025
film festival
Miami Film Festival
Miami, FL United States,
- Official Website
Send Message- James Woolley
Executive Director
jwoolley@mdc.edu
305-237-7800 - Lauren Cohen
Director of Programming
Key Contacts- James Woolley
The Miami Film Festival is an annual film festival in Miami, Florida, that showcases International (with a special focus on Ibero-American films), US, and Miami-Local films. The competitive film festival draws international and local attention, with films being showcased in several venues across Miami center and includes features, documentaries, short films, and retrospectives. The programming is selected so as to include: premieres from both established filmmakers and up-and-comers, socially relevant films, multidisciplinary and experimental films, and films showcasing local storytelling. The stated mission of the Miami Film Festival is to bridge cultural understanding and encourage artistic development.
Miami Film Festival is a world-class platform for International, US, Miami-Local, and Ibero-American films. The Festival showcases the work of the world’s best emerging and established filmmakers to the diverse cosmopolitan community of Miami.
In recent years, the Miami Film Festival has attracted approximately 45,000 people a year, as well as 300 filmmakers, producers, talent and industry professionals from around the world as it showcases more than 100 feature narratives, documentaries and short films of all genres, from 40 different countries. Highlights of recent festivals have included award presentations and exclusive in-depth conversations with film legends Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz, Nicolas Cage, Tom Hiddleston, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Rita Moreno, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Ramin Bahrani, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Aldis Hodge, Javier Camara, Andra Day, Ari Wegner, Cristobal Tapia de Veer, and Joshua James Richards; and numerous World and International Premieres.
The Festival also hosts dozens of world-class events every year, including annual industry-leading conversations, as well as numerous workshops, masterclasses, legendary parties, and industry happy hours.
Each Fall, the Miami Film Festival also programs a midseason showcase called GEMS. GEMS offers audiences a chance to see new films that will be big contenders during the upcoming award-season, as well as International hidden gems not to be missed. And just like the festival proper- expect celebs, chats, and parties!
