Last year, while preparing for the film festival Borscht Diez, Borscht Corp.’s “minister of the interior,” Lucas Leyva, asked grant applicants a simple question: Does Borscht even matter anymore? “That’s a question we’re constantly asking ourselves,” Leyva says. “Does it matter? And if it doesn’t, why are we doing it?”…
After announcing one of the coolest events in town for February (and likely all year) — the Coral Orgy — Borscht Corp. has continued revealing the expansive Borscht Diez film festival lineup by way of email. Unsurprisingly, the Saturday and Sunday events show no sign of slowing down what filmmaker Billy Corben says is “one of the greatest film festival lineups ever.”
In an attempt to spread cinema all over Miami-Dade and move away from the overexposed Wynwood neighborhood — now the go-to location for practically every event in town — the film festival Borscht Diez will hit the beach for the third day of the upcoming fest. After jaunts to the Everglades and Stiltsville, Borscht Diez will host events all day Friday, February 24, in a multitude of Miami Beach locations.
Borscht Diez, the tenth edition of Borscht Corp.’s biannual film festival, will begin with a funeral, but don’t worry: There is life after death. On the second day of the 2017 fest, Borscht will take to the bay, so get ready to throw on some boat shoes.
For the past few months, Borscht Corp. has been steadily teasing the death of its Borscht Film Festival in anticipation of the fest’s tenth edition, Borscht Diez. Evident in the hashtag #pray4borscht, the ability to light a candle and sign a guestbook to join the filmmaking nonprofit’s mailing list, and the brilliant memorial website on which users can leave a tribute, the dedication to the death of the Borscht Film Festival is wild but no stranger than anything else the collective has done in its decade-long history of filmmaking.
A new year kicks off, full of film festivals, and the call of awards season catch-up beckons. For those who want a little more history and a little less Oscars, though, there’s always Miami’s bundle of classic film showings. So what’s happening this month? Here’s everything you have to pick…
Miami is still on a film high from the spotlight that’s been placed on Moonlight and the city’s many festivals, from the Miami Jewish Film Festival to Borscht, taking place this time of year. But no film event is quite as big as the Magic City’s staple, the Miami Film Festival. The 34th edition will kick off big, with the March 3 opening night featuring actor, producer, and humanitarian Richard Gere in attendance.
The 2017 Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) begins tonight, and from the opening screening in Aventura to the festival closing at O Cinema Miami Shores January 26, there are plenty of worthwhile films to catch. Choosing just a few always requires some tough decision-making, so why not let New Times help? Here are our top picks for what to check out at the festival.
At her bingo night at Gramps each week, Miss Toto has to yell across the room at a player who breaks one of her biggest rules: shouting “woo” when she calls O-69. “Who the fuck woo’s during an orgasm?!” she yells, before reminding the crowd that the mandate is to…
“Best films of 2016” lists are a dime a dozen this time of year. But even though 2016 was a disaster in many ways, it gave us plenty of great films by women. So just as we did in 2015 and 2014, New Times is running down the works that reigned above the rest. These are the 16 best films by women of the past year.
As 2016 draws to a close, New Times is looking back at the year’s stories that had the most impact. Ten film and TV articles stood out from the rest, according to their high number of readers. This year, Miami readers proved to be an eclectic bunch, clicking on a weird mélange of pieces that one might not expect. So what’s on the list?
Few Spanish filmmakers are as well-known and widely loved as Pedro Almodóvar, the man behind Volver, Todo sobre mi madre, and Hable con ella. With his latest film, Julieta, hitting Miami theaters on January 6th, O Cinema is launching a retrospective of his work, including seven of his features. “For…
After announcing its nominees last Wednesday, the Florida Film Critics Circle revealed its winners yesterday. Though the Miami-made film Moonlight earned 10 nominations from the critics this year, it ended up with just one win in its nominated categories: The Pauline Kael Breakout Award for director Barry Jenkins. Moonlight and its cast…
With awards season at its peak and every critics association handing out prizes, the Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) announced its nominations for 2016 yesterday. The official winners will be revealed Friday, but Moonlight came out on top of the nominee list with ten well-deserved nods.
If you’re queer or in the know, you’ve likely spent the third Sunday of any month in the past two years at the Corner in downtown Miami, having a kiki with every king and queen during Counter Corner. Behind the bar, you’ve found Sleeper, pouring drinks and chatting with everyone who passes by at the event that he and Juleisy y Karla founded. What you might not know is just how interesting he is.
Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival is back with their 34th edition this March and today organizers announced a double dose of excitement for audience members who want more diverse work. Not only is the Google Seminar Series on Gender & Racial Gaps in Film & Tech that launched last…
As praise for the Miami-made film Moonlight continues to build, its filmmakers and actors gathered at Miami Beach Cinematheque Thursday for a local look inside its creation. Actors Alex Hibbert and Jaden Piner, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, and director Barry Jenkins discussed the film in a Speaking in Cinema conversation led by Borscht Film Festival cofounder Lucas Leyva, resulting in one of the most revealing conversations about the film to date.
Kareem Tabsch, alongside Vivian Marthell, launched O Cinema in 2011 and changed the film scene in Miami. Since then, O Cinema has expanded to three locations: Wynwood, Miami Shores, and Miami Beach. But Tabsch is also a filmmaker, one who’s killing it with his award-winning short documentaries such as Cherry Pop: The Story of the World’s Fanciest Cat and Dolphin Lover, both of which are proof that he’s just as interesting and unique a director as he is a curator and person.
Filmmaker Faren Humes delivers work that feels relevant and necessary. Her short film Our Rhineland, about two sisters who took on the Third Reich as it rendered mixed-race Germans sterile, has earned her a Director’s Guild of America Student Film Award and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College Television Award…
Always the first festival that cinephiles anticipate in the new year, the Miami Jewish Film Festival returns this January. For its 20th year, the festival will present 64 films from 20 countries while hosting 50 filmmakers and special guests throughout South Florida.
Borscht Corp., the nonprofit organization that makes your favorite short films in and about Miami, has a lot of exciting news for the start of 2017. First up? For the seventh year in a row, Borscht-commissioned works are playing at the ever-growing Sundance Film Festival in January. Better yet: Borscht…
In his Variety review of Monica Peña’s feature debut, Ectotherms, Guy Lodge referred to the zero-budget film as one of “the most striking world premieres at the Miami Film Festival.” To meet Peña and chat with her is such a casual, though always engaging, experience that one would never expect her to be a filmmaker who presents such intensity in her work.
