Tag: Miami Film Festival

  • Heaven Without People

    Heaven Without People

      The setting for this family drama is the home of a Lebanese Christian family who for the first time have managed to get their entire clan together for an Easter lunch.  The matriarch Josephine (Samira Sarkis) is nominally in charge, but very soon as the lively conversation gets going with several family members talking…

  • Sollars Point

    Sollars Point

    24-year-old Keith (MacCaul Lombardi) may actually be out of jail after serving time for drug dealing but as he still has to wear a police monitoring ankle bracelet and live at home with his father, he feels that his punishment is not over yet.  There is no real connection at all between him and his father Carol (Jim…

  • What’s queer about Miami Film Festival?

    What’s queer about Miami Film Festival?

    There has always been an eclectic approach to the programming of the prestigious Miami Film Festival to account for the very diverse community that now calls the city home these days.  As well being a major showcase for important new Latino movies, it has also been a welcome home for innovative queer cinema.   This year (The Festival’s…

  • Richard Gere is Coming To Town

    Richard Gere is Coming To Town

    Movies and politics are very similar in the way that to really succeed then timing is everything.  This is certainly the case for Richard Gere and his new movie that is about to be screened as the Gala Opening Night at Miami Film Festival on March 3rd 2017. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a…