The Cinematic Arts Program
Oolite Arts’ Cinematic Arts Program seeks to strengthen Miami’s growing indie film community by becoming the city’s hub for filmmakers, producers, and editors to connect, learn and exchange ideas. The Cinematic Arts program offers master classes, workshops, film screenings, and additional opportunities to help local filmmakers advance and perfect their craft.
The Cinematic Arts Residency
The Cinematic Arts Residency gives two Miami filmmakers $50,000 each, and the opportunity and resources to shoot, produce and screen a microbudget feature narrative film from start to finish right here in South Florida. Making this kind of film is an important stepping stone to large-scale projects.
The 2019 Residents are Xavier Medina and Monica Sorelle, chosen from among 142 applicants by a national jury of film experts because of their extensive experience making short films, their authorship of projects that center on Miami stories, and because their proposed projects embrace the ethos of microbudget filmmaking: the idea that creative stories can be brought to the screen with a lean and inventive approach to production.
“Moonlight” Co-producer Andrew Hevia and O Cinema’s Kareem Tabsch are helping conceptualize the program, which is led by Cinematic Arts Manager Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, and will work with the resident filmmakers.
Read the press release.
Resident Projects
Xavier Medina
Medina’s project will tell the story of a seven-year-old boy living in a Miami trailer park, a boy who is determined to somehow get to the beach and see the ocean for the first time. Learn more.
Monica Sorelle
Sorelle will create a film about a Haitian construction worker facing the harsh realities of gentrification as he is tasked with demolishing his own neighborhood. Learn more.
2019 Cinematic Arts Residents
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