The 36th edition of the Miami Film Festival awards Birds of Passage top prize.
Colombia’s latest Oscar-bid took home the $40,000 Knight Marimbas Award (the top grand jury prize). The epic that traces the origins of the Colombian narcotics trade was directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra.
The Knight Marimbas Award is sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and is given to the film “that best exemplifies richness and resonance for cinema’s future, named for the marimba, a variation of the xylophone that produces a deeper, richer and more resonant tone,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Additional wins include the Audience Award for best feature for Screwball, a documentary about a Major League Baseball doping scandal and Faren Humes’ Liberty and Jayme Gershen’s Six Degrees of Immigration, which tied for best short.
This year’s festival featured a new category called “Knight Heroes” which sets out to honor the emerging generation of South Florida filmmakers.
Check out below the festival’s list of winners.
Knight Made in MIA Award
Best Feature: Pahokee (Ivette Lucas and Patrick Bresnan)
Best Short: Liberty (Faren Humes) / Six Degrees of Immigration (Jayme Gershe)
HBO Ibero-American Feature Film Award
Fireflies (Bani Khoshnoudi)
Jordan Ressler First Feature Award
Socrates (Alexandre Moratto)
Zeno Mountain Award
My Daughter Yoshiko (Brian Blum).
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent)
IMDbPro Short Film Award
The Orphan (Carolina Markowicz)
Audience Award for Best Short
The Rafter (Jose Navas)
Best Score
Mowg for Lee Chang- dong’s Burning,
Best Trailer
Joe Hackman for Knife+Heart
Honorable mentions for additional outstanding trailers
The Silence of Others (documentary)
Zenu (shorts).
Best Poster Design
Edel Rodriguez for Fragile
HBO Ibero-American Short Film Award
Brian Robau for This is Your Cuba
Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Family Foundation CinemaSlam Competition 2019
Happy to Be Nappy (Xiao Che)
Cinemaslam Champion Award
Chess (Alejandro Gonzalez Valdes)
