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Miami
International Film Festival (MIFF)
117 films, 47 countries, 10 days
February 4 – 13, 2005
CELEBRATE THE BEST IN WORLD CINEMA!
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COME MEET DIRECTORS AND ACTORS!
THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE – Daniel Day Lewis
and Miami-born and raised, Catherine Keener star!
INNOCENT VOICES – Hear writer, Oscar Torres, tell
his personal story.
THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT
LOUIS TILL – Winner: Hamptons Film Festival Audience
Award.
EN ROUTE TO BAGHDAD - Winner:
UN Correspondents Association, Silver Medal Award for
Best Director.
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK:
RAISE YOUR VOICE - World Premiere! Meet the Director!
MITCHELLVILLE - Fresh from
Sundance, come meet the director VARIETY hails as "one
of the top 10 directors to watch!"
NINA - Winner, Best short
film, Miami Brazilian Film Festival; Winner: Moscow
International Film Festival, Russian Film Critics' Award.
LA CUECA SOLA - Featuring
personal interviews with legendary writer, Isabel Allende.
GUNNER PALACE - Some war
stories never make the nightly news…
SYMMETRY - Selection: Toronto
International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International
Film Festival; Winner, LA Polish Film Festival, Critics'
Award.
GUSMAN PREMIERES
THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE
Saturday, February 5, 7:00 p.m.
***Producer and actress attending.
A film written and directed by Rebecca Miller (Personal
Velocity—a Sundance Grand Jury Prize). Starring
Daniel Day Lewis (Gangs of New York, In the Name of
the Father, My Left Foot) and Miami-born and raised,
Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich, Lovely and Amazing,
Full Frontal).
INNOCENT VOICES
Sunday, Feb. 6, 7:00 p.m., Gusman
***Director and writer attending.
Director Luis Mandoki (Gaby: A True Story, Message in
a Bottle, When a Man Loves a Woman) and co-writer, Oscar
Torres, will be present for a Q&A after the film.
The story is based on Torres's real-life experience
as a young boy in El Salvador.
BILL COSFORD CINEMA –
U of MIAMI
THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL
Saturday, Feb. 5, 6:00 p.m., Cosford
***Director attending.
Winner: Hamptons Film Festival, Audience Award. The
telling of the murder of a 14-year-old boy helps re-open
a 50-year-old investigation of an unsolved crime.
EN ROUTE TO BAGHDAD
Sunday, Feb. 6, 6:00 p.m., Cosford
Discussion, “The United Nations” follows
the 6 p.m. screening.
***Director attending.
Winner: UN Correspondents Association, Silver Medal
Award for Best Director. Special panel discussion to
follow screening! Panelists include: Hamid Abdeljaber,
UN Liaison Officer for Arab Media; Ambassador Ambler
Moss, Jr., Professor of International Studies, University
of Miami; and Director Simone Duarte.
REGAL SOUTH BEACH CINEMA
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK: RAISE YOUR VOICE
Saturday, Feb. 5, 4:30 p.m., Regal
World Premiere
***Director attending.
This Grammy Award-winning quintet blends African songs
with gospel, blues and hip hop. A true celebration...the
most distinctive and revelatory music of the past 30
years! Meet Director, Stanley Nelson, and members of
Sweet Honey!
MITCHELLVILLE
Saturday, Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m., Regal
***Director attending.
Fresh from Sundance, come meet the director VARIETY
hails as "one of the top 10 directors to watch!"
Mitchellville tells the story of two solitary men imprisoned
by their tragic pasts.
NINA
Saturday, Feb. 5, 9:45 p.m., Regal
First-time feature filmmaker; Winner, Best short film,
Miami Brazilian Film Festival; Winner: Moscow International
Film Festival, Russian Film Critics' Award. Skid-row
desperation and psychological instability drive this
dark, Brazilian drama; a glimpse into the mind of a
good-hearted woman pushed over the brink.
LA CUECA SOLA
Sunday, Feb. 6, 1:30 p.m., Regal
***Director attending.
Featuring personal interviews with legendary writer,
Isabel Allende. Marilu Mallet documents the amazing
stories of five women who lost husbands, fathers, and
brothers during the brutal rule of Pinochet in Chile.
GUNNER PALACE
Sunday, Feb. 6, 7:00 p.m., Regal
***Director and central character (soldier) attending.
Some war stories never make the nightly news…This
chilling chronicle of the U.S. Army’s “Roughriders,”
stationed in a former palace of Uday Hussein, is a candid
look at wartime life.
SYMMETRY
Sunday, Feb. 6, 9:45 p.m., Regal
***Director attending.
Selection: Toronto International Film Festival, Karlovy
Vary International Film Festival; Winner, LA Polish
Film Festival, Critics' Award. When justice fails, there
is only survival—so believes one young man who
is picked up and sentenced for a crime he didn’t
commit.
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