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The Ibero-American Film Festival Miami will have Argentina as the guest of honor in its fifth edition. (IAFFM)
The Miami Ibero-American Film Festival (IAFFM) will take place from January 24 to 29, 2023. The event will feature 50 independent films that were selected from hundreds of submissions.
Argentina will be the guest of honor at this edition with the opening film, El Gerente, by director Ariel Winogard, and starring Leonardo Sbaraglia and Carla Peterson. The festival will also present an award honoring the career of director, screenwriter and producer Juan José Campanella, whose 2009 film, El secreto de la ojos de él, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Campanella will present The Weasels’ Tale.
“Argentina is the invited country and we have made an effort to bring the best of this moment in Argentine cinema and that is a part that will stand out a lot,” Fernando Arciniega, founder and Executive Director of IAFFM, told Infobae.
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The festival’s mission is to exhibit and celebrate films from Latin America, Spain and Portugal with a high artistic level and that stand out for communicating a message of social impact. Likewise, the event supports the education and creative development of local and Ibero-American filmmakers, providing them with access to training and networking opportunities.
The Argentine director, winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Juan José Campanella, will present The Weasels’ Tale.
“This year we are also betting on the industry,” said Arciniega. The event will offer three days of events related to the film industry and the Work in Progress space, created with the aim of contributing and promoting Ibero-American works that are close to being finished at an international level.
The fifth edition of the event will be attended by figures such as Estrella Arabiza, director of the Guadalajara International Film Festival; Gabriela Sandoval, executive director of Amor Festival LGBT+ in Santiago de Chile; and Juan Esteban Montero, director of the Viña del Mar International Film Festival. In addition, Taller de Chuco, the animation studio founded by Guillermo del Toro, will offer an animation workshop and present two films, Hasta los Huesos, by René Castillo ( Mexico) and Long Live the King, by Luis Téllez (Mexico).
Created in 2016 under the name Indie Pasión Festival, it was born from the Manos del Sur foundation, which helps South American children. It started with a one-day event, with 5 shorts by Cuban-American directors, and by 2019 it had grown into a four-day celebration packed with screenings, forums, special events, and networking. “We have grown a lot, slowly but big. Not only at the local level, but at the Latin American level”, Arciniega concluded.
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The festival will also award the Rainbow Flamingo Award to one of the films submitted, both fiction and documentary, with an LGBT+ theme.
The IAFFM programming will be presented in the following categories:
It will present new works from countries with an original, autonomous and daring cinematographic proposal. Its objective is to discover talent, as well as to propose innovative and challenging cinema.
It will highlight how Ibero-American talent is capable of telling universal stories and identifying and exploring trends, themes and innovations using different genres of audiovisual language.
It will include all kinds of productions that mix other branches of art. It is a section dedicated to creativity, where cinema, design, cooking and music intersect.
En los Márgenes, by Juan Diego Botto: three characters with three intertwined stories trying to stay afloat and survive 24 crucial hours that could change the course of their lives forever. (IAFFM)
The IAFFM will unite once again with one of its most important allies, the Dicapta Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is to guarantee equal access to information for people with hearing and/or visual disabilities.
The fifth edition of the Miami Ibero-American Film Festival will also include a variety of events, galas, workshops and awards:
Dedicated to animation, this category will present a large selection of activities around the world of animation.
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Galas for high production films and special functions in collaboration with cultural institutes or film festivals. Here they will have red carpets full of glamor and with great guests.
El Agua, by Elena López Riera, will be presented in the New Talents category.
In this category, 16 short films will compete.
This section will focus on how the industry uses Miami as a bridge between Ibero-American producers. There will be a series of panels with professionals for anyone who is interested in venturing into the world of cinema.
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Where: Silverspot Cinema, 300 SE 3rd St #100, Miami, FL 33131, (305) 536-5000
When: January 24 to 29
How much: $12
For more information or to obtain tickets, visit www.IAFFM.com.
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