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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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Call for submissions – 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 [...]

2024-09-30T15:39:34-04:00September 30, 2024|, , , , |
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Second Annual SMIFF Shines a Spotlight on International Filmmakers

By Karina Valdes For three nights, the Bill Cosford Cinema is setting the stage for established and emerging short filmmakers to showcase their work during the Second Annual Shorts Miami International Film Festival (SMIFF). The juried festival awards cash prizes to the most engaging films, including a $2000 Best of the Festival award. "We are proud to host this international film festival. This festival offers a range of diverse global perspectives, which may challenge and delight as we experience this special opportunity to witness the best contemporary short films produced [...]

2024-01-24T13:12:21-05:00January 24, 2024|Motion Pictures, School of Communication|
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Second Annual Shorts Miami International Film Festival

Join us for the Second Annual Shorts Miami International Film Festival where established and emerging filmmakers showcase their work over three nights at the Bill Cosford Cinema. This year, festival organizers received 650 entries from 62 countries and territories. Of the 650 entries, 21 were selected as finalists, showcasing filmmakers from the United States, Japan, the Virgin Islands, Turkey, Israel, Brazil, Portugal, Indonesia, and Australia. Feb. 2 registration: https://events.miami.edu/event/shorts_miami_international_film_festival_2024#. Feb. 3 registration: https://events.miami.edu/event/shorts_miami_international_film_festival_2024_8394. Feb. 4 registration: https://events.miami.edu/event/shorts_miami_international_film_festival_2024_2419.

2024-01-24T12:13:05-05:00January 24, 2024|, |
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Inaugural United Black Students and UTrailblazers Canes Black History Film Festival

The inaugural United Black Students and UTrailblazers Canes Black History Film Festival is focused on short films that reflect on the University of Miami’s rich Black History. The goal of the festival is to enhance and highlight the UTrailblazers Experience at the Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., Breezeway at the Cosford Cinema, which honors the pioneers who paved the way for generations of Black students at the University of Miami. During the festival, submissions from University of Miami undergraduate and graduate students in two categories, The UTrailblazer Experience and Inspired by [...]

2024-01-23T13:19:33-05:00January 23, 2024|, |
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United Black Students and UTrailblazers Canes Black History Film Festival: Call for Submissions

The University of Miami School of Communication is pleased to announce the inaugural United Black Students and UTrailblazers Canes Black History Film Festival. We seek short (5 minutes or less) films based on contents in the UTrailblazers Experience, current events, and/or Black student experience(s) on a multicultural campus. Films awarded first place will receive $1500 and second place will receive $500. In addition, the filmmaker awarded first place will have a chance to attend the ’Canes Los Angeles Film Showcase in May 2024. The deadline for submissions is December 31, [...]

2023-10-23T13:26:20-04:00October 23, 2023|, |
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Inaugural Shorts Miami International Film Festival Coming to the Bill Cosford Cinema

The internationally recognized University of Miami School of Communication announces its inaugural Shorts Miami International Film Festival, to be held Feb. 3-5 at the Bill Cosford Cinema in Coral Gables. The festival seeks to showcase emerging and established filmmakers in a competition that aims to promote excellence in short form narrative and documentary filmmaking. Monetary awards of $500 will be given to the best jury-selected U.S. or international short film (20 minutes or less) in each of the following competitions: Narrative and Documentary. A $500 Best of the Festival cash-award [...]

2023-02-07T12:09:48-05:00January 23, 2023|Motion Pictures, School of Communication|
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Cinematic Arts Develops Online International Film Festival in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced the University of Miami to suspend face-to-face instruction, students in the Department of Cinematic Arts were especially affected. Filmmaking is by definition a collaborative art, one that requires crews to work together, as well as access to an extensive array of production equipment. As the School of Communication has seen time and again in our community, creativity and persistence can overcome practical challenges. Motion pictures students forced to shelter in place worked during this crisis to develop films that will be screened online at the [...]

2020-05-08T12:02:46-04:00May 8, 2020|Motion Pictures|
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