Miami’s Urban Film Festival Pulls Mega Film & Television Industry Execs and Celebs

The schedule for Urban Film Festival 2017 is packed with experts, workshops and programming for the 3-day Labor Day weekend.  It is dedicated to providing the new generation of urban filmmakers with the opportunity to monetize and get their content distributed internationally.  Friday’s event will be held in the Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami, FL 33137.  Saturday and Sunday activities are in Historic Overtown’s oldest and newest theatrical venues:  Lyric Theater, 819 NW 2nd Avenue and Overtown Performing Arts Center, 1074 NW 3rd Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.

The Urban Film Festival opens with a press conference with Hip Hop Legend Master P, his son Romeo Miller and Marco Mall of Florida Film House announcing a 3-picture deal with Romeoland.  The press conference is Friday, September 1 at 10AM at the Overtown Performing Arts Center.

The festival also attracted heavy hitters such as Powers Executive Producer Randall Emmett who will engage through a Meet & Greet with question and answers.  Producer Matty Beckerman, Director of World Wide Distribution Daniel Wuthrich and Distribution Director of TriCoast Worldwide Strath Hamilton reveal the secret to getting a successful distribution deal.  The first and last day of the festival will showcase two feature films—A Miami Love Story on Friday at the Little Haiti Cultural Center and Love & Reality on Sunday at the Lyric Theater – that were shown last year and received distribution through TriCoast and World Wide Distribution thanks to the Urban Film Festival.  Candy, directed by Houston filmmaker Mr. Boomtown, will premiere Saturday evening and is expected to receive distribution through connection with the festival.  A portion of the proceeds from the movie will be donated to Hurricane Harvey relief.

Workshops, classes and short film screenings include:

Saturday – September 2

10 AM – 12 PM – Workshops @ The Lyric Theater

Directing – Bla G

Acting – Yonel Aris & Passion Roosevelt

Writing – Matt Wohl and Max Gabriel

Producing – Peter Ebanks

Cinematography with Michael Zoyes, Ido Eyo & Luis Valverde @ RED Digital Camera Miami, 72 NW 25th Street

1 PM – 3 PM  – Workshops: Producing | Directing | Acting | Writing

1 PM – 3 PM  – Cinematography Workshop @ RED Digital Camera Miami

SCREENINGS:

12 PM – 4 PM – People’s Choice Award Screening

1 PM – 3  PM – Best of Film Festival Screenings

3 PM – 5 PM  –  Best of Florida Film House Musical Short Films

5 PM – 8 PM – Best of Web Series Screenings

Sunday – September 3rd

12 PM – 2 PM – High Quality Filming On A Low Budget Masterclass with Peter Ebanks

2 PM  – 4 PM – Distribution Masterclass with Daniel Wuthrich, Matty Beckerman & Strath Hamilton

NEW ADDITION:

4 PM – 6 PM – Meet & Greet Power Executive Producer Randall Emmett with Q&A

SCREENINGS:

10 AM – 1:30 PM – Urban Film Festival  Short Film Screenings

1:30 PM – 4 PM – 1st Take Youth Film Program Short Film Screenings and Q&A by local youth filmmakers creating stories from their community

The culminating event is the Award Ceremony at the Lyric Theater celebrating films and filmmakers for their contribution to the festival and the community.  To see the complete schedule and purchase passes, go to www.urbanfilmfestivals.com.

Urban Film Festival is made possible thanks to sponsorship from the Southeast Overtown Parkwest Community Redevelopment Agency, City of Miami, Commissioner Keon Hardemon, Simkins Family Foundation, Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South Florida, Inc.

To secure media passes for the Urban Film Festival or RSVP for the press conference, please contact Stephanie van Vark at 305-710-2212 or stephanie@stephaniecreates.com.

Florida Film House (FFH) is currently developing original in-house content for TV shows, documentaries and full feature movie projects for domestic and international sales. In addition, FFH has an in-house creative team that offers digital marketing consulting, post-production services, color correction, and handles all other areas of production.  In February 2010, Executive Producer Marco Mall and Creative Director Blademil “Bla G” Grullon founded FFH combining over 20 years of experience as cutting edge innovators capturing artist’s moments in a branding and storytelling fashion.

About Florida Film House

Florida Film House is a team of passionate filmmakers working together to tell the stories of their community to educate and inspire the world. With over 700 productions, working with countless brands and celebrities, Florida Film House is in direct response to growing the international market for new urban content. The capital made from filming is reinvested into acquiring the necessary resources to underwrite the majority of expenses to develop their content. Florida Film House is a vertically integrated company that makes content from creative writing, producing, film, post-production and international sales. Focused on building an ecosystem that will offer superior film production services to the public, give back to the community by educating the youth through the 1st Take youth film program, minimizing financial risk with Worldwide Urban Distribution, and exposing those works of art through Urban Film Festival and Filmwire.net. Florida Film House is the beacon of the new generation of filmmakers.