Hello FilmGatos! How time flew! It's time to celebrate Florida Film and their creators with all the previous winners of our past monthly editions. This is BEST of FEST 2025! All previous winners will be competing for an array of awards, including the covenant Crystal Kraken Award. Come celebrate our local creators in an amazing night of our best winning films and the battle to take home awards. ABOUT US FilmGate Miami is a non-profit organization with the goal to ensure the empowerment and growth of local creators and talent. Providing them with a platform in which they can showcase their art, reaching new audiences locally and internationally. OFFICIAL FILM SELECTIONS January Free-For-All: My Week With Charlie (Matthew Villegas) February Untold Stories: Just Girls (Ariel Seligman) March Femme Directors: Baggage (Ana Kiri) April Comedy: ¡Que Colombianada! (Samuel Vargas) May Documentary: George V (Dennis Scholl, Dia Kontaxis) June Free-For-All: A Sick Mind (Alexander Valderrama) July Films with Subtitles: Ana y la Distancia (Hansel Porras Garcia) August Free-For-All: She'll Come Back (Aaron Tyler Gil & Gerald Pain) September Music Video: El Raccoon (Grethel Castillo) October Horror: All of Garden (Chloe Azcuy) FILM COMMUNITY NETWORKER B4 AND AFTER Enjoy meeting other creatives and film geeks during our film community networker before the screening. Grab some drinks, some grub, and start mingling! We will also have networking at the end of the event so feel free to gush about the cool films afterwards too. ACTIVATIONS We will be collaborating and featuring table activations from the Miami Downtown Development Authority, Miami Movie Goers, Magic City Flea (TBC), Overtown Youth Center, Cyber Ox Studio and more to be announced. PERCOLATOR Starting off the night, we have our Percolator. Sign up and tell the audience your skills or if you are looking for a professional in particular! You will have 1 minute to pitch. FILMMAKER Q & A After the screening, as our jury judges discuss the night's award-winning film, we will invite our featured filmmakers for a Q&A session about their creative process and inspiritations in creating their films. AWARDS CEREMONY At the end of the screening, we will present the jury's choice in the best film of the night! Our jury is a team of industry professionals that use their expertise to judge the techincal and artistic qualities of each film screened. PARKING MET 3 Parking Garage : 250 SE 3rd Ave - $8 for 4 Hours (validation on first floor at entrance of Silverspot Cinema) South East Financial Center : $10 for all day (validation at Silverspot Cinema Guest Services at the entrance) Age Appropriateness PG-13