Borscht Film Festival
borscht film festival film festival organized borscht corporation held miami florida roughly every – month festival mission tell miami story forging cinematic identity city film screened commissioned specifically festival borscht corporation also accept work subject matter filmmaker tie south florida known weirdest film festival planet festival characterized gonzo sensibility sense spectacle focus regional storytelling critic festival point chaotic structure also acknowledge part overall ethos teeming lunacy inspired imagination lauded visionary experimental organizational methods” filmmaker magazine going far recognize conceptually bold film festival era also reinvention concept film festival year festival grew small one night underground screening student film internationally recognized event became influential world independent film inspired programming curation supporting early work artist like jillian mayer barry jenkins tarell alvin mccraney john wilson terence nance rachel rossin film first played borscht festival later went screen cannes sundance toronto sxsw various festival borscht film festival founded lucas levya group new world school art alum origin festival traced series event group new world school art student film program public high school student different art program pooled equipment resource help create short film based different challenge inspired five obstruction would host party name smudged unminced screen finished film peer graduating high school group continued collaborate video filmmaker attending school state place showcase movie locally leyva organized first official borscht film festival december miami shore performing art theater hosted functional robot named paris hilton nd borscht film festival took place august miami science museum planetarium attendee encouraged bring sleeping bag leyva moved back miami new york time away made realize untapped cinematic potential city began collaborating andrew hevia refocus festival regional storytelling formed collective likeminded artist cccv roman numeral miami area code banner issued manifesto cccv collectively made film different neighborhood miami screened tower theater little havana december attendance event far exceeded capacity prompted visit fire marshal able procure support local pineappleflavored soda called jupiña others commission original short film filmmaker age including first screenplay tarell alvin mccraney representing different neighborhood miami screened short well others local filmmaker next borscht film festival screening sold seat gusman theater downtown miami people attempting scalp free ticket waiting outside overcapacity venue festival expanded three day took place november – programming included symposium locallybased director michael bay fictional university wynwood bikein movie see medicine melancholy miami native barry jenkins sweat record little haiti local press noted festival emergence underground article titled “borscht film festival miami altculture summit” miami herald“ive watching culture miami two decade felt like critical mass new miami always bred talent doesnt usually manage keep hard get produced hard make power broker pay attention anything new young hard find new space available resource taken figure ensconced long time maybe borscht festival like change that”the borscht film festival awarded best film festival miami new time annual best miami award marked first time work noticed outside miami commissioned short later screened cannes tribeca sundance film festival respectively jillian mayer’s scenic jogging chosen one winner youtube play creative video biennial screened guggenheim museum around world borscht awarded first grant knight foundation yearold festival director accepted award knight foundation logo shaved head convinced ceo alberto ibargüen support funding created free open call miami movie pitch founded borscht corporation oversee production commissioned film festival expanded two weekend taking place april april event featured foot tall piñata filled adderall named james francco campaign speech performance live crew front man uncle luke running mayor miamidade homemade robot battle thunderdome stunt month leading festival office became public exhibition wynwood art gallery staff fest lived worked visitor could observe hour day main night took place adrienne arsht center new film premiered capacity crowd overflow line snaked around block biscayne boulevard festival branded borscht although appears four previous iteration borscht film festival first time festival filmmaker noticed national press including journalist wrote vice magazinemiami surfacecapable city youre local student filmmaker one either stick around pursue making ad say crispin porter relocates los angeles new york city city placed stronghold miami medium filmic iconography decade suddenly single season place favor handing thousand professional resource kind heady collective yearold energy dependably say f hollywood stop sign shall famous also technology nasty wake dreamer seemingly come head allowing borscht somethings plant flag allowing miami denizen naturally realize there money made identity seized cultivated home grownthe journalist also noted unusual time practice embracing online video programming several short fact go viral youtube vimeo many went screen festival around world including nd year row sundance collective broke sundance remake la jetée mayer festival director lucas leyva titled life freaky time uncle luke promoted film airbrushed poster whoopee cushion bearing uncle luke face left theater seat film became highly sought collector item hosting booty bass party uncle luke taken wing sayingwhen look borscht guy remind much starting music unheard rapper south they’re going struggle right nowthis work mayer leyva competition sxsw year landing spot filmmaker magazine new face independent film list another short chlorophyl first movie barry jenkins set home town set stage return make would eventually become moonlight contemporaneous interview foreshadowed return“i’m working playwright tarell alvin mccraney triptych feature liberty city borscht producing thing tarell grew three block went high school similar story yet i’d never met cat borscht festival scheduled coincide mayan apocalypse december stylized expanded day include presentation additional film collective based regional center including court new orleans stated purpose regional film summit build community within loose network regional independent film center around world towards new distribution model leadup festival borscht falsely claimed miami heat player chris bosh donated salary rename event bosh film festival later revealed marketing stunt promotion animated film titled adventure christopher bosh multiverse wherein basketball player posited disgraced extradimensional prince pretending human bosh threatened legal action festival publicly released cease desist letter digitally vandalized text life real life animated broadswordwielding bosh interview filmmaker claimed film documentary commissioned bosh world danger nba responded cease desist letter filmmaker held everything said true somewhere multiverse controversy subject article miami herald sport section began “chris bosh definitely disgraced space prince attorney want make sure portrayed one” borscht actually hosted event festival called bosh film festival miami art museum wherein anyone could bring projector play whatever wanted also hosted early musical performance yung jake hundred water man alligator costume singing ballad titular film screen event perhaps legal reason however surprise screening main event opera house following night audience went wild asked incident chris bosh said “kind left alone didn’t want get involved” festival event happened condemned marine stadium jai alai fronton marine biology laboratory versailles staged fidel castro’s death year actually happened also played footage psychedelic sea life largest permanently established projection surface north america hypnotized filmmaker amy seimetz qa film staged celebrity animal petting zoo independent cinema response festival positive local press calling triumphant return best iteration first time national press covered festival en masse lauded experiential program really good time articulating miami underground unlike ever imagined residing beneath main stage palm thong tan freaky force reckoned regional film summit viewed positively creating broader networked collective regional community filmmaking scene impacted indie film world large editor filmmaker magazine called favorite film event year addition new round local short film commission including collaboration local musician otto von schirach blowfly jacuzzi boy dj laz invited guest filmmaker native floridian amy seimetz adan jodorowsky ray tintori celia rowlsonhall julia pott others collaborate miamiset film premiered main event arsht center many original film went screen festival win award globally extent sxsw year short competition came borscht among work seimetz rowlsonhall bernardo britto musical mayer leyva brought borscht back sundance third consecutive year bosh animation released online went viral next edition took place december – titled borscht featured increasingly outlandish event bigger scope previous iteration created space program called masa miami aeronautics space administration claimed launch hard drive containing film orbit achieve “interplanetary premiere” using weather balloon given control story led screen side building biscayne bay used write existential message directed dolphin manatee might reading ocean also hosted machete fencing workshop threw fake criterion collection release party local con man built large scale “theme park” based short film complete diy ride hydraulic shark ekgcontrolled carnival game leadup festival remade brian de palma’s scarface crowdsourcing second clip premiered mansion nightclub south beach formerly movie palace turning back movie theater one night point screening nondescript hotel room attendant allegedly psychedelic drug also hosted bodybuilding competition titled mr borscht outdoor screening miamiset ace ventura designed pet retrospective fictional lothario jose el rey laser light show planetarium dome narrated kool ad da racist keynote speech given holographic floating head digital dj khaled stiltsville neighborhood floating house middle ocean also installed pool inside local bar order host pool party premiere season surreality show based short borscht picked mtv starring julian yuri rodriguez attributed success pretty boy think people like looking pretty people screen rodriguez also made national wave filmmaker controversial short experiment transporting senior citizen cuba using early oculus rift developer kit commissioned film included collaboration artist jacolby satterwhite rapper trina sebastian silva pod dolphin well work terence nance first art film made entirely king diamond strip club unauthorized sequel cool ice starring pirated vanilla ice public response positive local journalist declaring filmmaking boom south florida miami new wave led borscht various independent cinema film company organization emerged wakewith broad reach userfriendly interactive event atmosphere combining irreverence serious art borscht become crown jewel nowburgeoning miami filmmaking scene world taking noticethe growing international awareness reflected press reaction befuddled chaotic nature yet overall revelatory filmmaker magazine called “a spirited distinctly local reinvention concept film festival also entire notion regional presenting organization” indiewire headline called weirdest film festival planet moviemaker magazine named one coolest film festival world artforum nick pinkerton wrote world borscht decent claim owning miami programmer international festival attending borscht became launchpad film festival run career bernardo brittos short yearbook sundance jury prize two borscht short returned sundance five borscht project premiered festival festival played entire borscht lineup glasgow short film festival key west film festival led headline next great hope american film hiding florida announced surprise flash festival one week’s notice titled borscht programmed miami international film festival’s gem festival held time october – coup moonlight held miami premiere borscht choosing much larger miami international film festival role development coupled borscht official web domain realmiamigemscom tagline “cuz real gem made miami bro” led feud miami international film festival director called borscht “unoriginal” derisively referred “the soup festival” nickname borscht later used merch interview borscht director purported unaware miami film festival’s gem saying tagline inspired film screening akin gemstone “like emerald jacqueline musgravite moonlight ruby etc” filmmaker magazine called pointless beef afterwards miami international film festival launched program cash prize support locallymade movie encourage local filmmaker participate showing renewed focus miami story besides moonlight borscht premiered feature film involved developing celia rowlsonhalls bernardo brittos jacqueline argentine well new short sam kuhn year borscht festival output borscht corporation traveled world retrospective hosted europe u including ifp center new york hundred screening festival museum award another two project screening sundance four follow total reached film across eight consecutive year presence well many filmmaker got start borscht working hollywood television project indicative impact presence across independent film world still small underground operation known mostly miami local festival established international cult following emerging filmmaker festival programmer one last truly unique transgressive experience film brand distinct baffling hollywood seeking work realm spectacle mentioned along far larger established global festival instance article began toronto international film festival may prestige cannes casual chic sundance even selfconscious eccentricity miami’s borscht film festival many source suggest largest locally borscht become part city’s cultural character onceradical focus regional miami storytelling become mainstreamed paving way thriving ecosystem new art house cinema festival organization legitimized onceabsurd premise filmmaking miami received highest honor florida film critic circle even miff changed rule order able screen borscht film moonlight nominated eight academy award represented great validation also existential crisis festival festival’s mission carve space miami filmmaker global stage provide requisite support reach success moonlight project forced consider whether mission still relevant openly asking matter doesnt borscht borscht diez spanish word “ten” play dy announced would ostensibly final borscht film festival miami new time reporter found obituary memorial website borscht diez took place february – began party funeral home art installation musical performance film screening inside coffin wake leading motorcade procession coffin allegedly carrying hard drive containing film set ablaze firework florida everglades event included aquatic parade jet ski boat hovercraft stiltsville time travel booze cruise happening called new wave uninhabited island biscayne bay accessible kayak attendee could watch film waterworld played giant floating led billboard wander find smaller screen scattered amid island’s tree showing short film art installation performance neon indian jacuzzi boy performed island well allegedly event improperly permitted festival pretended cancel event throw police leading criticism borscht festival implicated attendee potentially dangerous criminal activity another evening turned frank gehrydesigned new world symphony miami beach described “psychedelic haunted house” event titled “coral orgy” interior space projection mapped closeup footage ejaculating coral reef captured marine biologist frequent collaborator coral morphologic main auditorium animal collective performed live score psychedelic invertebrate erotica elsewhere building visitor would find live opera tripping mushroom bermuda triangle ritual otto von shirach performance hot sugar jacolby satterwhite various installation including new work rachel rossin “george w bush simulator” wherein user lay actual bathtub virtually inhabits body former president peacefully work painting tub animal collective’s performance released audiovisual album titled tangerine reef however required rerecording borscht crowd rowdy main screening original short film olympia theater preceded live opera two nude people bouncing dolphin sponsor logo appeared screen afterwards party took place old art deco bank featured performance rapper trina top bank vault vogue battle party ended brawl involving festival director asked newsweek melee director pointed cut face said “this audience building look like” event included film screening cactus early retrospective john wilson documentary screening pootie tang mm taping live gameshow called shart tank screening polish bath house rival festivalwithinthefestival called west kendall international film festival series talk festival director presented pdf explaining essential purchase speedboat first step making feature film difficult discern event actually happened known program fake event pretend cancel order distract authority real event dubious legality final event block party watch academy award giant inflatable screen root moonlight liberty city neighborhood film take place writer director hail event plagued video feed intermittently cutting throughout night added drama mixup la la land announced best picture winner feed froze audience began leave feed resume moonlight filmmaker accepting award incited euphoric celebration lasted following morning journalist summed momentit magical improbable like journey borscht week past decade somehow made perfect sense independent filmmaking miami moonlight course didpress reception festival almost ecstatic called one greatest film festival lineup ever named best overall festival miami type triumph indie film rarely mass culture stage went home asking right question film festival could world fun immense occasion announced final festival alum attendee reflected past decade organization lifechanging impact others described visionary inspiring conceptually bold film festival era despite organizer claim edition would last received million new funding knight foundation continue however instead using funding continue activity borscht opted reboot organization hand resource new younger group miami filmmaker explained festival initially founded intent never showing film anyone many organizer crossed decade line deemed initial mission festival accomplished new generation determine needed next borscht created fellowship program identify train new generation artist programmer event producer take fellow organized collective called bisque corp led trevor bazile usual festival organizer working anthology feature film omniboat fast boat fantasia borscht would represent rebirth festival passing torch bisque corp taking place november borscht event included film screening multimedia performance midnight puppet show poncili creacion inflatable art installation hosted venue including masonic temple skate park hungarian community center speedboat reggaeton warehouse party jungle garden defunct burdine’s department store popup theater called firebird santa’s enchanted forest world’s largest holiday theme park borscht corporation c nonprofit production company organizes borscht film festival creates short film video city miami florida addition hosting quasiannual film festival screen work borscht corp provides financial technical support filmmaker commissioned make work city miami florida solicit project open call asking project idea artist living inspired south florida receive funding production development support seek firsttime filmmaker community invite guest filmmaker collaborate screening rough cut borscht film festival film gone one screen hundred festival venue worldwide short film commissioned borscht corp screened sundance film festival winning jury prize edition sundance borscht project competition sundance borscht corp short film screened sxsw film festival winning jury prize borscht corporation short film screened afi fest winning jury prize borscht corp short film acquired criterion collection stream criterion channel borscht corp short collectively award film festival least borscht corp commission selected vimeo staff pick bernardo brittos animated short place lived yearbook awarded animated short grand jury prize afi fest respectively short film glove received animated short grand jury award sxsw film festival brittos animated short yearbook received short film jury prize sundance film festival valerios day michael arcos received short film jury prize sundance film festival mayerleyvas web series season julian yuri rodriguez—produced association mtv—received webby award outstanding reality series borscht corp subject several dedicated retrospective showcase including cern geneva switzerland part cineglobe international film festival independent filmmaker project medium center brooklyn new york incubate festival netherlands new orleans key west glasgow film festival borscht corp core member alumni—bernardo britto lucas leyva jillian mayer terence nance celia rowlsonhall marnie ellen hertzler barry jenkins alex lim haas robin comisar sam kuhn faren hume keisha rae witherspoon sebastián silva—have named filmmaker magazine annual list new face independent film official website