March 5, 2008

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“Music is Miami, and Miami is music,” declared Patrick de Bokay, MIFF director, from the stage of the Gusman Center last evening, announcing a new program strand in the Festival called The Reel Music Scene. This special sidebar of documentaries, music videos and information panels will celebrate the love affair between music and the moving image. To kick off the program, the Festival presented the North American Premiere of AFRICA UNITE, an inspiring music documentary that celebrates the music of reggae icon Bob Marley. Oscar-winning director Stephanie Black has collaborated with executive producers Danny Glover, Joslyn Barnes, Rita Marley and Cedella Marley, to focus on the Marley family’s trip to Ethiopia in 2005 to participate in a pan-African conference and musical concert, celebrating the 60th birthday of Bob Marley. The film’s inspiring message of unity as reflected in the life and music of Bob Marley was enhanced by the presence at the Gusman of Danny Glover, director Stephanie Black, executive producer Joslyn Barnes and members of the Marley Family, including Mama Booker, the family matriarch. Prior to the film, Danny Glover was interviewed on stage by film critic/educator Elvis Mitchell. Members of Miami’s Caribbean community, many in colorful native dress, were present at what was a truly inspiring tribute to a visionary artist and the continuing influence of his message. An article on other programs in the Reel Music Scene, including tomorrow night’s U.S. Premiere screening of 90 MILES THE DOCUMENTARY by Emilio Estefan, will appear in tomorrow’s Daily Wrap.

Tuesday was another full day at the Festival, with several highlights, including the World Premiere screening of BUY BORROW STEAL, a feminist comedy directed by Eric Styles and starring Heather Graham as a woman who hears the ticking of her biological clock as she contemplates motherhood. The film’s director Eric Styles, producers Doris Kirch and Oliver Mahrdt and screenwriter Camilla Leslie walked the Red Carpet at the Colony Theater.

Other highlights included packed screenings and lively question-and-answer sessions for the World Cinema Competition films HORROR IS ALWAYS WITH YOU (Russia), UNRELATED (United Kingdom), and CONFESSIONS OF A GAMBLER (South Africa); and Ibero-American Drama Competition films UNDER THE STARS (Spain), DOG EAT DOG (Colombia), BLUE EYELIDS (Mexico), EAT FOR THIS IS MY BODY (Haiti), SCRAMBLED BEER (Chile), LAMB OF GOD (Argentina) and POSTCARDS FROM LENINGRAD (Venezuela/Peru).

WHO'S IN TOWN

Filmmakers: Emilio Estefan, Director, 90 MILES THE DOCUMENTARY; Gloria Estefan, Performer, 90 MILES THE DOCUMENTARY; Cachao, Performer, 90 MILES THE DOCUMENTARY; Limor Pinhasov, Director, A WORKING MOM; Christine Swanson, Director, ALL ABOUT US; AMERICANEAST; Anthony Azzizi, Actor, AMERICANEAST; Cao Guimaraes, Director, ANDARILHO (Drifter); Tamar van den Dop, Director, BLIND; Eric Styles, Director, BUY BORROW STEAL; Doris Kirch, Producer, BUY BORROW STEAL; Camilla Leslie, Screenwriter, BUY BORROW STEAL;Carmen Castillo, Director, CALLE SANTA FE; Kongkait Komesiri, Director, CHAIYA; Rayda Jacobs, Director, CONFESSIONS OF A GAMBLER; Victor Arregui, Director, CUANDO ME TOQUE A MI; Michelange Quay, Director, EAT FOR THIS IS MY BODY; Ariel Rotter, Director, EL OTRO; Martina Juncadella, Actress, ENCARNACION; Marcos Jorge, Director, ESTOMAGO; Claudia Da Natividade, Writer, ESTOMAGO; Marcos Martinez, Co-Director, ESTRELLAS; Virginia Williams, Director, FRONTRUNNER; Lee Kang-sheng, Director, HELP ME EROS; Damaris Luthi, Co-Director, HIPPIE MASALA; Arkadly Yaknis, Director, HORROR THAT IS ALWAYS WITH YOU; Izaline Calister, Performer, IZALINE CALISTER-LADY SINGS THE TAMBU; Miluska Rosalina, Director, IZALINE CALISTER-LADY SINGS THE TAMBU; Laura Belsey, Director, KATRINA’S CHILDREN; Gabor Rohonyl, Director, KONYEC; Carlos Bardem, Actor, LA ZONA; Lucia Cedron, Director, LAMB OF GOD; Rodrigo Marin, Director, LAS NINAS; Everardo Gonzalez Reyes, Director, LOS LADRONES VIEJOS; Ines de Medeiros, Director, LETTERS TO A DICTATOR; Cristobal Valderrama, Director, MALTA CON HUEVO; Abdullah Oguz, Director, MUTLUKLUK; Sarab S. Neelam, Director OCEAN OF PEARLS; Jim Burnstein, Screenwriter, OCEAN OF PEARLS; Omid Abtahi, Actor, OCEAN OF PEARLS; Sanjeev Chatterjee, Director, ONE WATER; Luis Albores, Producer, PARPADOES AZULES; Aaron Fernandez, Director, PARTES USADAS; Carlos Moreno, Director, PERRO COME PERRO; Diego Ramirez, Producer, PERRE COME PERRO; Alejandro Brugues, Director, PERSONAL BELONGINGS; Mariana Rondon, Director, POSTALES DE LENINGRADO; Robert Patton-Sprull, PUBLIC ENEMY: WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME; Julio Molina and Daniel Ross, Co-Directors, QUERIO CAMILO; Michael Wilson, Director, SILHOUETTE CITY; Ari Libsker, Director, STALAGS, HOLOCAUST AND PORNOGRAPHY IN ISRAEL; Andrezej Jakimowski, Director, SZTUCZKI; Kenneth Bi, Director, THE DRUMMER; Sandino Saravia, Producer, THE POPE’S TOILET; Cesar Troncoso, Actor, THE POPE’S TOILET; Virginia Mendez, Actress, THE POPE’S TOILET; Amedeo d’Adao and Nevina Satta, Co-Directors, THE TREE OF GHIBET; Marcus Vetter and Stefan Volz, Co-Directors, TRADER’S DREAMS; Luis Ospina, Director, UN TIGRE DE PAPEL; Joanna Hogg, Director, UNRELATED; Gonzalo Arijon, Director, VENGO DE UN AVION QUE CAYO EN LAS MONTANAS; David Schisball, Co-Director, VERY YOUNG GIRLS; Nina Alvarez, Co-Director, VERY YOUNG GIRLS; Priya Swaminatha, Producer, VERY YOUNG GIRLS; Anand Tucker, Director, WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER; Cesar Troncoso, Actor, XXY; Carolina Pelleritti, Producer, XXY; and Rafa Cortes, Director, YO.

Film Professionals: Bob Smeaton, Director, FESTIVAL EXPRESS; Rudi Dolezal, Director, DoRo Films; Mariori de Marcos, President, Jordon- Marcos The Agency; Peter Marshall, Senior Vice President, DeWitt Stern; Robert Darwell, Partner, Sheppard Mullin; Laura Bickford, Producer, Laura Bickford Productions; Rob Aft, President, Compliance Consulting; Leonardo M. de Barros, Partner, Conspiração Filmes; Arne Ludwig, Producer, 2 Pilots Filmproduction GmbH; Glen Basner, President, International, Weinstein Company; Samantha Horley, Head of Sales, Lumina Films; Michael Paul Brown, Regional Account Manager, Kodak Imaging; Anna Margarita Albelo, John Doe Entertainment; Asuncion Sanz, Dominican Republic Global Film Festival; Aymee Cruzalegui, Filmantropo Productions; Calixto Chinchilla, New York International Latino Film Festival; Caroline Barraud, Abril Cinema TV; Christophe Ackerman, Jacksonville Film Festival; Chucha Barber, Tallahassee Film Festival; Claudia La Bianca, Starweel Productions; David Golbeck, Woodstock Film Festival; Debbie Ferruzzi, BeCause Foundation; Denise Castillon, Film Buzz; Denise Hughes, Starweel Productions; Diana Baxter, Sony Pictures TV Intl; Don Schmeichel, Nervous World Films; Elena Manrique, Telecinco; Eugenia Tirdatova, Moscow Film Festival; Eva Slotegraaf, Eninci; Frederico Verardi, Derive Productions; Gloria Pugh, Tallahassee Film Festival; Jesse Charbonier Rodriguez, Jacksonville Film Festival; Joe Bilancio, Rehoboth Beach Film Festival; Jorge Flores Rodriguez, Fortuity Film; Joseph Bovino, Lincoln Road Pictures; Juan Caceres, HBO/Latino Film Festival; Juliana Zanon, Brazilian Film Festival; Julio Cabello, Sony Pictures TV Intl; Kathy Serrano, Kimera Producciones; Leslie Vanderpool, Bahamas International Film Festival; Linda Dubler, High Museum of Art; Lissette Decos, Filmantropo Productions; Loida Feliz- Paniagua, Filmantropo Productions; Marcos Salas, Sony Pictures TV International; Marian Luntz, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Monica Braine, National Geographic All Roads Film Project; Natasha Despotovic, Dominican Republic Global Film Festival; Nicole Guillemet, Programmer; Nikki Golbeck, Woodstock Film Festival; Oscar Alonso, Latido; Phil Roc, Jackmel Film Festival; Rebeca Conget, Film Movement; Roger Pugh, Tallahassee Film Festival; Russ Barber, Tallahassee Film Festival; Semiramis De Miranda, Dominican Republic Global Film Festival and Viviane Spinelli, Brazilian Film Festival.

MIAMI ENCUENTROS: lan Arboleda, Dynamo Capital and Cinapse; Laurent Baudens, Borsalino Films; Arianna Bocco, IFC Films; Pape Boye, COACH 14; Matt Brodlie, Paramount Vantage; Andres Calderon, Dynamo Capital; Monica Chuo, Paramount International; Eduardo Constantini, Costa Films; Pablo Cruz, Canana Films; Leo de Barros, Conspiração Films; Guillerminadi Marcos, Travesia Producciones; Eva Diederix, Elle Driver; Paul Federbush, Warner Independent Pictures; Sandro Fiorin, FiGA Films; Alex Garcia, FiGA Films; Jason Gurvitz, Maya Releasing; Samantha Horley, Lumina Films Ltd.; Sarah Lash, Cinetic Media; Arne Ludwig, 2 Pilots Filmproduction GmbH; Millie Luna, Venevision Internacional; Stuart Manashil, CAA; Eric Mathis, Ondamax Group // Clou Production Services; Gael Nouaille, Wild Bunch; Alberto Perez de La Mesa, Albrije Home Entertainment; Jason Resnick, Focus Features / Universal Pictures; Laura Rister, Untitled Entertainment; Eileen Rodriguez, The Weinstein Company; Eric Rovner, William Morris Agency; Francesco Ruilli, Film Annex; Luillo Ruiz, Buena Ondita; Ilda Santiago, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival and Estacao Cinemas; Belly Torres, Buena Ondita; and Mirjam Wertheim, Orange Entertainment.

FEATURE STORY

MIAMI ENCUENTROS: REACHING ACROSS BORDERS

In the past number of years, major film festivals around the world have seen it as their mission to not only exhibit the best films available, but also to serve as a breeding ground for new projects to get launched, financed and distributed. To this end, the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) has joined the ranks of such major film festival events as Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam, Pusan, Dubai and several others, in organizing parallel industry events designed to stimulate awareness and interest in projects that are still in the development stage.

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25TH ANNIVERSARY MIFF ENCUENTROS PROJECTS

WATER AND SALT (AQUAL Y SAL)
Director: Alejo Taube, Argentina
Director’s Statement: "The film is about doppelgangers, two people who are identically the same, but have no familial relationship. In this tale, the two men face different, yet complementary destinies. The idea of the doppelganger, or the double, is rooted in our mythology (as in the Arthurian Legends and in the story of The Prince and Pauper). But what happens when this phenomenon affects ordinary people, not princes or heroes?"

B-612
Director: Shawn Garry, Chile
Director’s Statement: "B-612 results from my interest in how people deal with solitude, abandonment, and lack of companionship. In this film, I will explore desolation, which is a state of alienation. Under extreme circumstances, my characters bring out either the best or the worst in themselves."
 
CHAPULTEPUNK
Director: Renato Ornelas, Mexico
Director’s Statement: "CHAPULTEPUNK's essence lies within human beings, in the rights and wrongs we commit in the name of love, in the search for our identity and place in the world. The characters are so human that they remind us of the need we have to free our desires."

DAKOTA DREAM
Director: Rafa Cortés, Spain
Director’s Statement: "THE DAKOTA DREAM is an absurd comedy, sometimes light, sometimes dark and sometimes surrealistic, that tries to question and compare the veracity of two worlds: the physical and the mental. For me, the latter is possibly the only place in this confusing life where some things can become completely true."

HOJE (TODAY)
Director: Tata Amaral, Brazil
Director’s Statement: "This film confronts the separation of past and present through characters and locations. In Vera’s, Ercilio’s, Lucia’s and Alfonso’s imaginations and memories - either in militant leftist hideouts or in familiar rooms - the limits of time and space are transformed."

NACIDOS BAJO EL FUEGO (BORN UNDER FIRE)
Director: Jairo Eduardo Carrillo, Colombia
Director’s Statement: "The film is the outcome of my 2003 short animated documentary LITTLE VOICES. It was based on the experiences of displaced children, victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. To tell their stories, we used the children's own stories and drawings."

PABLO
Director: Richard Goldgewicht, U.S.
Director’s Statement: "Inspired by Pablo Ferro’s elusive personality and his mastery of different disciplines, such as animation, design, comic art and motion graphics, I blended animation, motion graphics, documentary footage and celebrity interviews, connected by a warm narrative track by Pablo's friend and collaborator, Jeff Bridges."

RADIO LOVE
Director: Leonardo de Armas, Cuba
Director’s Statement: "The film is a comedy that reflects on Western society’s obsession with self-realization and constant search for happiness. We get a lot of confusing and varied information on how to mold our souls and our bodies in record time. This film invites the spectator to sit in front of a mirror and laugh, recognizing their very self."
 
TANTA AGUA (SO MUCH WATER)
Directors: Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge, Uruguay
Director’s Statement: "The film is a melancholic portrayal of a family vacation during which nothing goes as expected. Fourteen-year-old Lucia is always fighting with her father, Alberto. The film's third-person perspective allows us to empathize with both characters without patronizing or judging them."

SCREENING THIS WEEK
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Special Event Tonight

25th MIFF CELEBRATION + CHACUN SON CINEMA (France)

MIFF celebrates its Silver Anniversary with a program of special guests and special screenings. The Festival has created a clips reel of some of the outstanding films that it has premiered over the past quarter-century, including BLOOD SIMPLE (1984), MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985), MY LIFE AS A DOG (1986), AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS (1987), CINEMA PARADISO (1988), THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER (1989), JU DOU (1990), DELICATESSEN (1991),  LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (1992), KIKA (1993), ONCE WERE WARRIORS (1994), UNDERGROUND (1995), TEMPTRESS MOON (1996), FUNNY GAMES (1997), BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (1998), BETWEEN YOUR LEGS (1999), FAITHLESS (2000), IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2001), MOULIN ROUGE (2002), BALSEROS (2003), OSAMA (2004), INNOCENT VOICES (2005), REFUGEE ALL STARS (2006) and last year’s ALICE’S HOUSE. The Festival has secured the North American Premiere of CHACUN SON CINEMA, an anthology film of 33 shorts directed by some of world cinema’s most outstanding talents. The film was created to celebrate last year’s 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, and includes a who’s who of film auteurs, including such talents as Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Manoel De Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming-Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai and Zhang Yimou. This is one unmissable evening that will truly be one of the highlights of this year’s Film Festival!!.
Screening: Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, 7:00pm

Screening Today

LUCIO (Spain)
This riveting documentary introduces audiences to Lucio Urturbia, a modest construction worker who also was a master counterfeiter and leftist radical. Through the use of archival footage, dramatic reenactments and interviews, the film paints a vivid portrait of a legendary dissident.
Screening: Regal South Beach, Theater 11, 4:30pm

KONYEC (Hungary)
Direct from its double wins as Best Genre Film and People’s Choice at the 2007 Hungarian Film Week, this sophisticated dramatic comedy tells the tale of an elderly couple who have fallen on hard times and become modern-day Bonnie and Clyde outlaws.
Screening: Bill Cosford Cinema, 7:00pm

MADRIGAL (Spain/Cuba)
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Havana Film Festival, this wonderfully inventive film mixes surrealism, sensuality and science fiction in a stylishly romantic fantasy by Cuban director Fernando Perez. 
Screening: Tower Theater, 7:00pm

AMERICANEAST (U.S.)
Focusing on an Arab-American family living in Los Angeles, this moving film is a poignant portrait of the immigrant experience. At the heart of the film is the unlikely friendship and business collaboration between an Egyptian-born man and his Jewish friend, who open up an authentic Middle Eastern restaurant together.
Screening: The Colony Theater, 9:30pm

Screening Tomorrow

MATAHARIS (Spain)
Winner of the Best Screenplay prize from the Spanish Cinema Writers Circle, this feminist drama features a stellar cast of Spain’smost talented actresses. An East Coast Premiere from Iciar Bollain, the director of the Festival hit TAKE MY EYES.
Screening: Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, 9:30pm

MUAI THAI CHAIYA (Thailand)
The beauty and raw spectacle of Thai boxing forms the crux of this riveting tale of three impoverished friends from South Thailand who seek their fame and fortune in 1970s Bangkok.
Screening: Regal South Beach, Theater 10, 6:30pm

HORROR WHICH IS ALWAYS WITH YOU  (Russia)
In this Kafkaesque comedy, a middle-aged couple live in a one-room apartment in a provincial town…..their routine existence boring and monotonous. Their cheerless life is overturned by an extraordinary event when their cramped flat is occupied by a group of special service policemen who are waiting for the terrorist from the flat next door.
Screening: Sunrise Cinemas Intracoastal, 7:15pm 

A PAPER TIGER (Colombia)
In this North American Premiere, director Luis Ospina creates a dazzling portrait of Manrique Figueroa, Colombian dictator, whose colorful life reflects the country’s political upheaval from the 1940s through the 1970s.
Screening: Tower Theater, 9:30pm

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Miami International Film Festival is a Presenting Sponsor of the Media Summit 2008, an international event focused on exploring solutions to the broadcast, high definition, and digital production, post and transition issues facing productions in the Caribbean and the Americas region. The conference and exhibition open today and run through Friday.

Hundreds of media professionals from the world of broadcast and production, from more than 20 countries will be speaking and attending. Conferences and exhibits were created to present the technology, trends and strategies that can help successfully bridge the transition from analog to digital for the regional broadcast, commercial, music video and film production communities.

For more information and to register, visit: www.msummitca.com.

REEL SEMINARS

THE REEL MUSIC SCENE PRESENTS: THE BEST KEPT SECRET…THE SUCCESS OF MUSIC FILMMAKING

Description: From WOODSTOCK and THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY to I AM NOT THERE and 90 MILES, music films are bigger than ever. If you are a passionate filmmaker with a deep love for music, the industry's best will reveal how to work with all areas of the music and film industries to deliver innovative films.

Panelists:

• Bob Smeaton, Director. Bob Smeaton was lead vocalist and principal songwriter for the rock band White Heat, which signed to Virgin records, releasing one album and two singles.  After the demise of White Heat, he turned his attention behind the camera. During 1992-1996 he was Series Director and Writer on the Grammy-award winning BEATLES ANTHOLOGY TV series. His other credits include Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsies, for which he won his second Grammy, and his feature film directorial debut FESTIVAL EXPRESS.
• Miluska Rosalina, Director. Miluska Rosalina was born in Curacao and studied at the Dutch Film Academy. IZALINE CALISTER – LADY SINGS THE TAMBÚ is Miluska’s first feature film. Izaline Calister is a highly talented singer, composer and lyricist with a distinctive personal musical style weaving together the traditional rhythm of her native island, Curaçao (Dutch Caribbean), with Afro- Latin sounds and jazz. Izaline released her first solo album on her own label in 2000 and her CD launch concert sold out in the famous Amsterdam jazz temple, the BIM-Huis.  Izaline has produced and released three more albums over the past six years.
• Rudi Dolezal, Director, DoRo Films. Rudi Dolezal was born in Austria and currently lives in Miami Beach. He has directed and produced numerous music videos, documentaries, concert films, commercials and TV shows.
• Mariori de Marcos, President, Jordan-Marcos, The Agency. Mariori De Marcos is the President of Jordan-Marcos, The Agency. She is also Vice-President of Fonosound and its subdivision Fonojazz, record labels distributed by Universal Music in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Mexico. Her vast experience and expertise in the entertainment industry include management, distribution, publishing, marketing and product development.

Date: Wednesday, March 5, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Location: Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Batten 2106
Admission: General Public: $15; Students with school I.D.: $5; Film Society Members and MIFF Partners: $10; MDC & UM Students: Free with school I.D.

KODAK PRESENTS: STOP BY, SHOOT FILM

Description: A hands-on opportunity to capture your own beautiful images on Super 16mm. Choose your composition, your own framing and shoot! Kodak will send you a DVD of your work. Limited capacity event.
Please visit www.kodak.com/go/stopbyshootfilm to sign up.

Coach/Tech Teacher:

• Michael Paul Brown – Regional Account Manager, Kodak Entertainment Imaging Division. Michael is a Regional Account Manager for Eastman Kodak based in Florida who is responsible for sales, marketing and engineering of Kodak’s Motion Picture Film and Hybrid Products throughout the state.

Date: Wednesday, March 5, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Miami Dade College, North Campus, Room 2147
Admission: Free to public but space is limited.
Sign up at www.kodak.com/go/stopbyshootfilm.

FROM GREEN-LIGHT TO GO: TECHNIQUES FOR INSURING, BONDING AND BANKING IN TIME TO KEEP TALENT

Description: Explore some of the basics for obtaining bank financing, a completion bond, and an insurance package that satisfies the typical two-party bank and insurance transactions. Learn what holds up the process, and what common pitfalls producers fall into, which may completely halt the process, preventing a film from being made even though it is “green lit” (i.e. the money and talent are committed).  Meet experts in insurance, bonding, film, legal and production who will take you through the process of getting a picture into production.

Moderator:

• Peter Marshall, Senior Vice President, DeWitt Stern. Peter co-leads the national film, television, and media practice for DeWitt Stern: the insurance and risk advisory leader in the independent film and television (non-studio) sector. He produced and/or supervised feature films for DEJ Productions and was the Senior Vice President of film production at Lionsgate. Prior to that, Peter headed the television division of Trimark Pictures and has held executive positions at Warner Bros., as well as at several prolific independent companies.

Panelists:

• Robert Darwell, Partner, Sheppard Mullin. Robert Darwell heads the Transactional Entertainment, Media and Communications Practice Group at the firm of Sheppard Mullen Richter & Hampton, LLP. He has provided legal counsel to producers in the sale and distribution of numerous films including THE QUEEN, BREAKFAST ON PLUTOand MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS. He was involved in the development and/or production of motion picture projects such as BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND.
• Jaime Rigal, Media Rights Capital.
• Laura Bickford, Producer, Laura Bickford Productions. Laura Bickford is the Academy Award- nominated producer of the critically acclaimed film TRAFFIC. Laura Bickford Productions was based at Universal Studios for several years following TRAFFIC where, among other projects, she developed DUPLICITY, scheduled to go into production in spring 2008. Bickford made her producing debut in 1995 with CITIZEN Xwhich received a Cable Ace Award for Best Picture and earned multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations.
• Lieve Jansen, Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs, IFG Bonds. Lieve joined IFG in January 2005 from London-based law firm Osborne Clarke, where she worked as a senior solicitor (attorney) in the media and entertainment department, advising independent producers and other media clients on all aspects of film and television production, financing and distribution, sponsorship, music and other intellectual property related issues.

Date: Wednesday, March 5, 3:00-4:30 PM
Location: Miami Beach Cinematheque
Admission: General Public: $20; Students with school I.D.: $5; Film Society Members and MIFF Partners: $10; MDC & UM Students: Free with school I.D.