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"Winged creatures of Passage," Cristina Gallego's and Ciro Guerra's rambling epic film following the starting points of the Colombian medication exchange, brought home the $40,000 Knight Marimbas Award (the best amazing jury prize) Saturday night at Miami Dade College's 36th yearly Miami Film Festival.

The south Florida gathering commended film with a varied and different slate of movies, including "Screwball," Billy Corben's narrative about a Major League Baseball embarrassment. Delivered by the Miami-based creation organization Rakontur, "Screwball" won the fest's group of onlookers grant for best element.

The $40,000 Knight Made in MIA Award for movies occurring and shot in south Florida from West Palm to the Keys, went to two movies: $30,000 to "Pahokee," coordinated by Ivette Lucas and Patrick Bresnan, which won best component, and $5,000 each to Faren Humes' "Freedom" and Jayme Gershen's "Six Degrees of Immigration," which tied for best short.

Different distinctions incorporated the $5,000 HBO Ibero-American Short Film Award, which went to Brian Robau's Pedro Pan dramatization "This is Your Cuba," and the $5,000 Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Family Foundation CinemaSlam Competition 2019 honor, which went to "Glad to Be Nappy" by Xiao Che.

Extra honors were exhibited to "The Skin of Yesterday" by Andrew Garcia (Miami Dade College), Eric Mendoza's "EscapĂŠ" (New World School of the Arts) and "The Chase" by Chantal Gabriel (University of Miami).

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Burglarize Hoerburger has weaved a holding and enthusiastic story implanted with the music and culture of the '80s in his breakout novel "For what reason Do Birds." The melodic edge of this book isn't amazing since Hoerburger has composed for Rolling Stone Magazine, and is the co-writer, with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame part Darlene Love, of "My Name Is Love: The Darlene Love Story." Besides Darlene Love, he has invested energy with the absolute most prominent performers within recent memory, including Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, and


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