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Night 3 – Shorts Miami International Film Festival 2025

The Shorts Miami International Film Festival returns for its third year in 2025, promising an extraordinary celebration of short film artistry! This three-night, juried event invites filmmakers and audiences to experience the magic of the Bill Cosford Cinema. With one of the largest screens in the area and both digital and 35mm projection formats, this venue is the perfect setting for an unforgettable festival experience. Join a community of film enthusiasts and industry experts, and mark your calendar and be part of SMIFF 2025!

2024-11-22T13:56:00-05:00November 22, 2024|, |
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Night 2 – Shorts Miami International Film Festival 2025

The Shorts Miami International Film Festival returns for its third year in 2025, promising an extraordinary celebration of short film artistry! This three-night, juried event invites filmmakers and audiences to experience the magic of the Bill Cosford Cinema. With one of the largest screens in the area and both digital and 35mm projection formats, this venue is the perfect setting for an unforgettable festival experience. Join a community of film enthusiasts and industry experts, and mark your calendar and be part of SMIFF 2025!

2024-11-22T13:56:18-05:00November 22, 2024|, |
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United Black Students and UTrailblazers Canes Black History Film Festival

The School of Communication is pleased to announce the second annual United Black Students and UTrailblazers Canes Black History Film Festival. We seek short films that reflect on University of Miami’s rich Black History. We welcome short films on any aspect of Black History (including Black diasporic history) as well as films from any genre, including, but not limited to documentary, news, comedy, experimental, and drama. Thematically, we invite short films that reflect on Blackness, broadly construed. We are particularly interested in films that are based on contents in the [...]

2024-10-16T10:39:56-04:00September 30, 2024|, , |
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The Sight & Sound Top Ten: ‘Jeanne Dielman’

The Cosford Cinema is proud to present a screening series of the top 10 films of the 2022 Sight & Sound Top 100 Poll: The Greatest Films of All Time. Launched in 1952 and conducted every 10 years since, the poll includes filmmakers, critics and journalists from around the world. The results are published in Sight & Sound, a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute. Some screenings in the series will be followed by a panel discussion featuring local critics and scholars. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU [...]

2023-01-17T12:06:48-05:00January 17, 2023|, |
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‘Knock at the Cabin’ Free Screening

Come catch an early *free* screening of the latest thriller by writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (“The Sixth Sense,” “Split”) at the Cosford Cinema at 7:30 p.m. Monday Jan. 30. Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge star as a couple with an adopted daughter who get a knock at the door of their remote cabin. The four visitors (led by Dave Bautista) inform the two men and their child that one of them must die in order to save the world from extinction. Based on the novel “The Cabin at the End [...]

2023-01-17T11:50:52-05:00January 17, 2023||
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“BROS” Free Advance Screening

Universal Pictures invites you to a free advance screening of the first romantic comedy from a major studio about two gay men maybe, possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They’re both very busy. Co-written and starring Billy Eichner (Billy on the Street, Impeachment: American Crime Story), directed by Nicholas Stoller (the Neighbors films, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and produced by Judd Apatow (The King of Staten Island, Trainwreck, The Big Sick), comes a smart, swoony and heartfelt comedy about how hard it is to find another tolerable human being to go [...]

2022-09-12T15:24:39-04:00September 12, 2022||
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Cosford Cinema Invites You to Watch Movies with a Special Guest

By Amanda M. Perez A new series—Watching Movies With—aims to bring the South Florida community to the Bill Cosford Cinema at the University of Miami to spark engaging discussions about film. Nestled on the University of Miami’s Coral Gables Campus lies a gem of a venue that is open for everyone to explore. The Bill Cosford Cinema closed during the pandemic—but it is now back and welcoming guests with an array of programming that is aimed to pique the interest of a variety of audiences. As manager of the Cosford [...]

2022-03-21T12:35:33-04:00March 21, 2022|Motion Pictures|
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Renowned Film Critic Takes On New Role as Manager of the Bill Cosford Cinema

By Karina Valdes Award-winning film critic, Rene Rodriguez, is joining the University of Miami School of Communication as manager of the acclaimed Bill Cosford Cinema. Rodriguez comes to UM with more than 25 years of experience as a film critic with the Miami Herald. “Rene's expertise in cinema and familiarity with our local and institutional histories are critical as we re-imagine new directions and leverage the significance of this as a cultural space,” said Dean Karin Wilkins, School of Communication. Rodriguez began his new role at the beginning of November [...]

2021-11-09T16:02:43-05:00November 9, 2021|Motion Pictures, School of Communication|
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