As Jaie Laplante the Festival’s Executive Director cut his teeth helming the city’s LGBT Film Festival several years,he has always insured that the Miami Film Festival incorporates a very healthy selection of LGBTQ movies in their programming. Not only that, but the eclectic mix they pick is adventurous, provocative, mesmerising and thoroughly entertaining. By also throwing in a few groundbreaking and potentially controversial films, their offer is one that we cannot miss and find ourselves generally wholeheartedly recommending.
Omilani Alarcón the director of Latinegras talked to us about her Latina + Negra culture and how this documentary, being screened at Miami Film Festival throws a light on a community that most of us know so little about.
In a very noisy Press Room at the Miami Film Festival, dancer/choreographer Jamal Sims talks about his directing debut, along with Jordan Finnegan his producer, of When The Beat Drops an exciting new queer black dance documentary on the fabulous world of ‘bucking’ that premiered at the Festival.
The movie’s other producers are the legendary Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato of World of Wonder fame, so we can expect to see the film surfacing either at a Festival near you soon or on some streaming platform or even TV. Watch this space.
The interview with Roger Walker-Dack was filmed by Hussein Wentz for www.queergurutv.com at The Standard Spa, Miami Beach.
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