Please join us for ShortsLab Miami with Sara Colangelo, Michael Almereyda, and Kenny Riches
April 25, 2015 // Panels 12pm-4pm // Reception 4pm-5pm
O CINEMA MIAMI BEACH
500 71st Street // Miami Beach, FL 33141
TICKETS // FREE
Shorts Lab Miami is presented by Sundance Institute.
This program is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Michael Almereyda’s work includes features, documentaries, and shorts. SKINNINGROVE, profiling photographer Chris Killip, was awarded Best Non-Fiction Short at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Almereyda’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s CYMBELINE premiered at the 2014 Venice Film Festival. His most recent feature, EXPERIMENTER, premiered at Sundance in 2015 and will be distributed by Magnolia Pictures in the fall. His most well-known movie is HAMLET (2000), with Ethan Hawke in the title role. Almereyda received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Film/Video in 2005. His writing has appeared in Film Comment, Artforum, the New York Times, and booklets for the Criterion Collection.
Sara Colangelo is an award-winning filmmaker and one of Filmmaker magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2010. Her short documentary HALAL VIVERO was a National Finalist at the 2006 Student Academy Awards and her narrative short UN ATTIMO DI RESPIRO won NYU’s prestigious Wasserman Prize for Best Direction. Colangelo’s subsequent short film, LITTLE ACCIDENTS, made its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Her feature version of LITTLE ACCIDENTS was supported by the Sundance Institute's Screenwriters and Directors Labs, where Colangelo was an Annenburg and Indian Paintbrush Fellow. LITTLE ACCIDENTS had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and will be theatrically released in 2015.
Kenny Riches was born in Toyota City, Japan, raised in Utah, and currently resides in Miami, Florida. He holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Utah. After making his shorts ISIP THE WARRIOR and HOW TO SPEAK CLEARLY, Riches' second feature film, THE STRONGEST MAN, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It will be released by FilmBuff. He is Vice President of The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists, which provides grants and support to filmmakers and playwrights, founded in memory of David Fetzer.
