In honor of the 25th anniversary of Spain\u2019s Goya Awards, The Miami International Film Festival presented seven of Spain\u2019s most prominent films in the inaugural Recent Cinema from Spain Festival. The event ran at Downtown Miami\u2019s Olympia Theater from Oct. 20-23.<\/p>\n
Presented by Miami Dade College, EGEDA\u2014the acronym for the Spanish affiliate of the Audiovisual Producers\u2019 Rights Management Association\u2014and the Gusman Center for The Performing Arts, the festival featured movies such as\u00a0Don\u2019t Be Afraid (No Tengas Miedo), Cousinhood (Primos), Forever Young (H\u00e9roes), Blackthorn (Sin Destino), Three Meters Above The Sky (Tres Metros Sobre El Cielo), and 5 Square Meters (5 Metros cuadrados).<\/em><\/p>\n Spain\u2019s official Academy Award-contender for Best Foreign Language Film, Black Bread (Pan Negre), opened the festival on Oct. 20th.<\/p>\n The red carpet event included an introduction prior to the film by the General Consul of Spain, Cristina Barrios, Mayor of the City of Miami Tomas Regalado, and Executive Director of the MIFF Jaie Laplante.<\/p>\n \u201cI am extremely pleased to see the Gusman [Center] filled with people,\u201d said Barrios as the audience cheered. \u201cAlso, I am so grateful that we are presenting this wonderful new festival from Spain in Miami.\u201d<\/p>\n Agust\u00ed Villaronga’s\u00a0Black Bread (Pan Negre),<\/em>\u00a0winner of 9 Goya Awards, proceeded to project on the big screen in one of the most beautiful theaters in the country with an enchanting Mediterranean courtyard, golden balconies, and shimmering stars on what looks to be an infinite night sky above.<\/p>\n Following the film, the audience was able to participate in a Q&A session with Isona Passola, the producer of the film.<\/p>\n Laplante was excited to kick off the festival and says that Spain is one of the most important countries featured in MIFF.<\/p>\n \u201c[Spain] is part of what helped establish our festival and the scope is so international that we aren\u2019t able to show that many films,\u201d Laplante said. \u201cThis event allows us to show films from Spain that we previously haven\u2019t been able to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In honor of the 25th anniversary of Spain\u2019s Goya Awards, The Miami International Film Festival presented seven of Spain\u2019s most prominent films in the inaugural Recent Cinema from Spain Festival. The event ran at Downtown Miami\u2019s Olympia Theater from Oct. 20-23. Presented by Miami Dade College, EGEDA\u2014the acronym for the Spanish affiliate of the Audiovisual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ae"},"yoast_head":"\n