Miami International Film Festival 2012

A defiant gaze at beauty culture from the aging supermodels who helped mold our idea of attractiveness. Includes interviews with Carol Alt, Isabella Rossellini, Christie Brinkley, Marisa Berenson, Paulina Porizkova, Jerry Hall, and Christy Turlington. Featuring an extended in-person session with Timothy Greenfield-Sanders as part of the screening.

World premiere of made-in-Miami animated film noir, preceded by "Catharsis" (France, 2011, Cedric Prevost), "Immune" (USA, 2011, Andrew Lathrop) and "Shift" (USA, 2012, Juan Carlos Zaldivar).

In a small, seaside town, a young man learns a thing or two about love, luck and life from his well-traveled, outlaw grandfather. Set in Florida's beautiful Panhandle. WORLD PREMIERE

Join these two homegrown talents for excerpts of work from both their careers and a subsequent conversation between David Fenster and Phil Lord on independent vs. studio filmmaking, and the nature of their artistic influence in each other's work.

The return of MIFF’s popular south Florida college student short film showdown! Ice cream party sponsored by Azucar Ice Cream Company following the screening.

Miami-born director Joel Fendelman's study of the unlikely connection between two 11-year-old boys belonging to deeply conservative religious families - one Muslim, one Jewish.

Young Hollywood stars Rumer Willis and Trevor Morgan co-star with veteran Robert Loggia ("Scarface", "Prizzi's Honor"), in this romantic drama of a whip-smart college grad and the Florida girl he can't understand. Preceded by tribute to Robert Loggia. WORLD PREMIERE

Legendary documentarians the Maysles brothers documented Cristo's 1980-83 project to wrap the islands of Biscayne Bay.

The event Miami has been waiting for! The theatrical WORLD PREMIERE of the pilot episode of the upcoming new STARZ series, 100% shot in Miami and created by the Miami born and raised Mitch Glazer.