South Florida PBS (WPBT, WXEL, & Health Channel) is worked up to announce the brand new season of film-maker premiering on Tuesday November 8th at 7:30 PM on WPBT and Thursday November 10th at 5:30 PM on WXEL. From riveting documentaries to highly effective dramas and foolish shorts, this new season showcases 24 movies over 10 episodes sharing tales that outline the South Florida group, discover various themes, and deepen the understanding of ourselves and our neighbors.
“We are very pleased to be able to launch the fifth season of film-maker. Not only will South Florida PBS broadcast these films to an estimated 6 million viewers, we will also distribute the series online and offer it up for national distribution, providing these filmmakers access to a significant new audience,” mentioned president and CEO of South Florida PBS, Dolores Sukhdeo.
Episode descriptions are as follows:
Episode 501 premiering November 8th on WPBT and November 10th on WXEL:
- Open Dialogues: Black Voices|Black Stories – Director Freddy Rodriguez & Producer Jeff Rusnak
This documentary from the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, focuses on what social justice seems and appears like for Black residents in South Florida, as informed via the narratives of eight Broward County residents, musicians, essayist, and spoken phrase artists. The goal of the mission is to encourage dialog about inequality and fairness of the African diaspora in America.
Episode 502 premiering on November 15th on WPBT and November 17th on WXEL:
- Mambochella – Producers Adeline Ferro and Ivelin Giro
Mambochella takes viewers on a rhythmic journey, following a never-before-seen gathering of award-winning artists from each nook of the world, combining their skills to supply an album that pays tribute to Mambo’s golden period whereas reinventing its eclectic parts, inviting all generations cross-culturally to maneuver to the identical vibrational tune.
- CIRCA – Director Sandra Portal-Andreu
CIRCA is a call-to-action to the world from the kids of Miami-Dade County. Being floor zero for the results of local weather change, the movie shares the visions of the long run from over 37 kids between the ages of seven and 18. Interviews and drawings depict what Miami will seem like in 2050. From grim predictions to choices of hope, the following technology has a lot to say, and it’s time that we hear.
- F.I.L.M. (Fulfilment – Inspiration – Leader – Motivation) – Director Elijah DeArmas
F.I.L.M. is a brief documentary showcasing kids and adults with disabilities that compete in marathons and triathlons. They are proving to the world that something is feasible with willpower.
Episode 503 premiering on November 22nd on WPBT and November 24th on WXEL:
- Tales of Sunshine: Florida Eco-Stories: The Fisherman – Director Vincent Marcucci
Through a meditative journey into the depths of Florida ecology, Tales of Sunshine observes the intimate and galvanizing tales of 4 naturalists in the course of the peak of Covid-19. In this episode leisure angler Freddy Matos finds peace on the water. Matos navigates a brand new lifetime of group constructing and citizen science after spending 5 years locked away in federal jail.
- Snakes – Director Dominic Traverzo
A spoken phrase meditation following one man’s journey from childhood monsters to coming into outdated age.
- Simulation – Director Milan Tangirala
A girl traverses tropical nature via a simulation to flee the world she lives in.
Episode 504 premiering on November 29th on WPBT and December 1st on WXEL:
- Hurricane Flora – Director Gabriel de Varona
As a Cuban American documentarian rides out a hurricane at her dad and mom’ home along with her boyfriend. Tensions rise as she takes benefit of being locked in and makes an attempt to interview her emotionally reserved father about his darkish previous in Cuba.
- Mocktails from the Pub – Director Lauren McGarrett
When a transgender faculty graduate finds herself trapped in a dead-end job, she goes on a mission to search out inspiration for her future break-through novel.
Episode 505 premiering on December 6th on WPBT and December 8th on WXEL:
- Synchronic – Director Andres Irias
Taking place in the course of the peak of the Christmas season, Synchronic follows a husband and spouse, Colleen, and Charles Martin, as their marriage drifts aside. While Colleen advert daughter Phillippa make a head begin into JoJo’s procuring retailer, Charles stays behind searching for an empty parking spot. Their distance on this second kickstarts a series of life altering occasions as a stranger but acquainted man to Colleen threatens their livelihood with a weapon of the long run, time reversal.
- Croqueta Nation – Director Guillermo Alfonso
Croqueta Nation is a movie that mixes Miami’s culinary scene with a restauranteur’s imaginative and prescient to unite a group by breaking a world file. Set in Miami, this feel-good and playful story follows Carlos Gazitua, proprietor of Sergio’s Cuban Restaurants, as he units out to make croqueta historical past. His massive plans of creating the world’s longest croqueta gained’t be simple to realize, however will they be price it ultimately?
Episode 506 premiering on December 13th on WPBT and December fifteenth on WXEL:
- Los Colors de Marcia – Marcia’s Colors – Director Cinthya Franco & Producer Daniela Orlando
Marcia is an outdated girl spending her final years in her lonely house reminiscing over her reminiscences, Her solitude leads to desperation for human interplay. When Marcia’s lastly takes life’s final probability to attach along with her nurse, Lucia, she is transferred to a different route.
- Missed Signal – Director Chloe Cappelen
While at a celebration, Marcie reveals she has emotions for somebody to her greatest good friend David, resulting in a giant miscommunication.
Episode 507 premiering on December 20th on WPBT and December 22nd on WXEL:
- Mirrorball – Director Raquel Mira
When Debbie and Gene finish their long-lasting relationship with one another, they think about a heightened model of their romance. Their relationship performs out as a dream ballet set on a stage. As the couple dances via the fantasy model of their lives collectively. It showcases the failings they may not overcome.
- Paternal – Director Pierre St. Jean, Junior
Paternal explores the complexities of fatherhood from the Haitian perspective.
Episode 508 premiering on December 27th on WPBT and December 29th on WXEL:
Episode 509 premiering on January 3rd on WPBT and January 5th on WXEL:
- Silver Waters – Director Domenicca Botero
After the current dying of her husband, an aged girl makes an attempt to skip the wake and revisit the seashore the place they first met, however her reminiscence is fading.
- Sacrilego – Director Maytee Diaz
A younger resort maid explores a harmful manner to make more cash with a purpose to pay for her father’s surgical procedure.
Episode 510 premiering January 10th (time TBD) on WPBT and January 12th (time TBD) on WXEL (Due to mature themes this episode will air later within the night):
- Daggers Drawn – Directed by James Cotton
A pair’s lustful intentions transpire to be a pretense for ensnaring one another, however who will get who?
- Woodlandish Ghoul – Director David de Souza
A younger feminine hitch hiker is picked up late at evening. Will this seemingly good man attempt to make the most of her, or will the tables be turned on him as she hunts for her subsequent meal.
- La Rose Noire – Director Christopher Krider
A suave hitman finds his subsequent mark to be greater than he bargained for.
- CAMALEON – Director Miguel A. Sarduy
With a nod to the spaghetti western this ultra-short movie conveys thriller and horror with only one thought, “It is only to change the sunset, for the sunrise…”
About film-maker’s funders:
The film-maker mission is supported partly by the National Endowment for the Arts. On the online at Arts.gov
film-maker started 5 seasons in the past, with the help of an NEA grant and we’re proud to have obtained this new spherical of funding permitting us to showcase extra South Florida tales.
And we’re honored by the continued help of Oolite Arts and its Cinematic Arts Residency. Oolite Arts, what Miami is product of.
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