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78-481: Known as "the weirdest film festival on the planet," the festival is characterized by a gonzo sensibility, sense of spectacle, and focus on regional storytelling. While critics of the festival point out its chaotic structure, they also acknowledge that it is part of an overall ethos that is "teeming with lunacy and inspired imagination." It has been lauded for its "visionary and experimental organizational methods” with Filmmaker Magazine going as far as to recognize it as

156-582: A laser light show in a planetarium dome narrated by Kool AD of Das Racist . The keynote speech was given by the holographic floating head of a digital DJ Khaled at Stiltsville , a neighborhood of floating houses in the middle of the ocean. They also installed a pool inside a local bar in order to host a pool party for the premiere of No Seasons , a "surreality show" based on a short from Borscht 7 picked up by MTV , starring Julian Yuri Rodriguez , who attributed his own success to being "a very pretty boy and I think people just like looking at pretty people on

234-619: A manifesto . CCCV collectively made 17 films, each about a different neighborhood in Miami, and screened them at the Tower Theater in Little Havana on December 27, 2008. The attendance at the event far exceeded capacity, which prompted a visit from the fire marshal . In 2009 they were able to procure support from a local pineapple-flavored soda called Jupiña and others to commission 5 original short films from filmmakers under

312-476: A movie palace ) by turning it back into a movie theater for one night. At some point there was a 3am screening in a nondescript hotel room where most of the attendants were allegedly on psychedelic drugs. They also hosted a bodybuilding competition titled "Mr. Borscht," an outdoor screening of the Miami-set Ace Ventura designed for pets, a retrospective for fictional lothario Jose El Rey, and

390-481: A transsexual prostitute. The day before committing suicide, Teele had had another telephone conversation with DeFede, who recorded this call without Teele's knowledge, which was illegal under Florida law. DeFede admitted to the Herald ' s management that he had taped the call. Although the paper used quotes from the tape in its coverage, DeFede was fired the next day for violating the paper's code of ethics, and he

468-673: A triptych feature about Liberty City that Borscht is producing, and this is the thing: Tarell and I grew up three blocks from each other. We went to the same high school. We have very similar stories and yet I’d have never met this cat were it not for Borscht." In 2012, the festival was scheduled to coincide with the Mayan Apocalypse from December 12 to 21, 2012 (stylized as 12.12.12-12.21.12). It expanded to 9 days to include presentations from additional film collectives based in other regional centers, including Court 13 from New Orleans . The stated purpose of this "regional film summit"

546-401: A "space program" called MASA (Miami Aeronautics and Space Administration) and claimed to launch a hard drive containing their films into orbit to achieve an “interplanetary premiere” using weather balloons. They were given control of a 13-story LED screen on the side of a building on Biscayne Bay, and used it to write existential messages directed at dolphins and manatees who might be reading from

624-873: A $ 2,000 scholarship, a Silver Knight statue, an AAdvantage 25,000-mile travel certificate and a medallion (from sponsor American Airlines ). Honorable Mentions each received a $ 500 scholarship and an engraved plaque. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic , the 2020 awards ceremony was live-streamed on May 28 from a video studio at the Miami Herald's newsroom; the nominees attended via Zoom video conference. The Silver Knight Awards have been given in Miami-Dade County since 1959 and in Broward County since 1984. Silver Knight Awards were given to Palm Beach County students from 1985 through 1990. The program

702-675: A 14-acre (5.7 ha) plot in Biscayne Bay , Miami . This facility opened in March 1963. In 2011 the Genting Group , a Malaysian company, offered to pay the Miami Herald Media Company $ 236   million for the current headquarters property. The company began scouting for a new headquarters location after finalizing the sale. The then president and publisher of the media company, David Landsberg, stated that it

780-433: A 15 foot tall piñata filled with adderall named James Francco, a campaign speech and performance by 2 Live Crew front man Uncle Luke (then running for Mayor of Miami-Dade ), homemade robot battles in a thunderdome, and a stunt where in the month leading up to the festival, their offices became a public exhibition in a Wynwood art gallery where the staff of the fest lived and worked and visitors could observe them 24 hours

858-435: A Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for columns which included topics like police brutality and profiling. Publication of a Spanish-language supplemental insert named El Herald began in 1976. It was renamed El Nuevo Herald in 1987, and in 1998 became an independent publication. The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald quickly took diverging editorial directions, sometimes leading to tense relations and conflicting information about

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936-489: A critical mass that was new. Miami's always bred talent - but it doesn't usually manage to keep it. Too hard to get produced, too hard to make the power brokers pay attention to anything new and young, too hard to find a new space when the few available resources are taken up by figures that have been ensconced for a long time. Maybe the Borscht Festival, and its like, can change that.” The 2009 Borscht Film Festival

1014-477: A day in prison." Thus, the full extent of Epstein's crimes and his collaborators remained hidden and the victims unaware of this arrangement. In July 2019, Epstein was charged with sex trafficking dozens of minors between 2002 and 2005; reporting at the time noted how the Herald brought public attention to accusations against Epstein. On December 17, 2019, it was announced the Miami Herald would move to

1092-575: A day. The main night took place at the Adrienne Arsht Center , where new films premiered before a capacity crowd of 1800, with an overflow line that snaked around the block to Biscayne Boulevard . This festival was branded Borscht 7, although it appears there were only four previous iterations of the Borscht Film Festival. It was the first time the festival and its filmmakers were noticed by national press, including

1170-570: A journalist who wrote in Vice Magazine : "Miami is the surface-capable city where if you're a local or student filmmaker, one either sticks around to pursue making ads for, say, Crispin Porter, or relocates to Los Angeles or New York City (the very cities that have placed a stronghold on Miami's media and filmic iconography for decades.) Suddenly, in a single season, the place is in favor of handing $ 150 thousand and professional resources over to

1248-535: A month later, responding to pressure from the Cuban community in Miami, Díaz resigned after reinstating the fired journalists, saying that "policies prohibiting such behavior were ambiguously communicated, inconsistently applied and widely misunderstood over many years". Nevertheless, he continued to state that such payments, especially if made from organs of the state, violate the principles of journalistic independence . At least seven other journalists who did not work at

1326-399: A new building in suburban Doral . The old building was demolished in 2014. In November 2018, the Herald broke the story that "in 2007, despite substantial evidence that corroborated [female teenagers'] stories of [sexual] abuse by [Jeffrey] Epstein , the U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta , signed off on a secret deal for the multimillionaire, one that ensured he would never spend

1404-679: A new facility after a period of remote work . The remote work began prior to the closure of the office, which did occur. The publication sold the Doral office in September 2021, getting $ 27.3 million. In 2023 the newspaper announced its new headquarters would be in the Waterford Business District. The Miami Herald has received 24 Pulitzer Prizes: In the 1960s under the leadership of Women's Page editor Marie Anderson and assistant women's page editor Marjorie Paxson

1482-702: A nickname which Borscht later used on their merch. In an interview, the Borscht director purported to be unaware of Miami Film Festival’s GEMs, saying their tagline had been inspired by the films they were screening being akin to gemstones: “Like, MA is an emerald, Jacqueline is musgravite , Moonlight is a ruby, etc.” Filmmaker Magazine called it a "pointless beef." Afterwards, the Miami International Film Festival launched programs and cash prizes to support locally-made movies to encourage more local filmmakers to participate, showing

1560-471: A pirated Vanilla Ice . The public response was once again positive, with local journalists declaring the filmmaking boom in South Florida the "Miami New Wave," led by Borscht and the various independent cinemas, film companies, and organizations that emerged in their wake: "With its broad reach, user-friendly interactive events and atmosphere combining irreverence and serious art, Borscht has become

1638-437: A really good time, and articulating Miami's underground "unlike I ever imagined residing beneath the main stage of palms, thongs and tans" as a "freaky force to be reckoned with." The regional film summit was viewed positively for creating a broader networked collective of regional communities and filmmaking scenes which impacted the indie film world at large. The editor of Filmmaker Magazine called it their favorite film event of

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1716-493: A renewed focus on Miami stories. Besides Moonlight , Borscht 9.5 premiered other feature films they were involved in developing, such as Celia Rowlson-Hall's MA and Bernardo Britto's Jacqueline Argentine , as well as a new short by Sam Kuhn . Filmmaker (magazine) Filmmaker is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film . The magazine was founded in 1992 by Karol Martesko-Fenster , Scott Macaulay and Holly Willis . The magazine

1794-548: A screen." Rodriguez also made national waves as a filmmaker for his controversial shorts and his experiments transporting senior citizens to Cuba using an early Oculus Rift developer kit. Other commissioned films included a collaboration between artist Jacolby Satterwhite and rapper Trina , Sebastian Silva and a pod of dolphins, as well as works by Terence Nance , the first art film made entirely in King of Diamonds strip club, and an unauthorized sequel to Cool as Ice starring

1872-409: A similar " fairness doctrine " had been upheld for radio and television, and establishing that broadcast and print media had different Constitutional protections. The first African American man to be a reporter at the Herald was Thirlee Smith, Jr. in 1967. The first African American woman to work as a reporter at the Miami Herald was Bea Hines , starting on June 16, 1970. Hines was nominated for

1950-668: A six-days-a-week format. On January 21, 2020, it was announced that the Miami Herald would close its Doral printing plant and move its printing and packaging operations to the South Florida Sun Sentinel 's printing facilities in Deerfield Beach . The Herald stopped printing its own editions as of April 26, 2020. The Miami Herald sponsors several community involvement projects, such as those detailed below. The Wish Book program lets community members who are suffering from hardships ask for help from

2028-582: A symposium on locally-based director Michael Bay at the fictional University of Wynwood , and a bike-in movie to see Medicine for Melancholy by Miami native Barry Jenkins at Sweat Records in Little Haiti . Local press noted the festivals emergence from the underground. From an article titled “Borscht Film Festival is Miami's alt-culture summit” in the Miami Herald : “I've been watching culture in Miami for two decades now, and this felt like

2106-963: Is an American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County , Florida . Founded in 1903, it is the fifth-largest newspaper in Florida, serving Miami-Dade, Broward , and Monroe counties. It once circulated throughout Florida, Latin America , and the Caribbean . The Miami Herald has been awarded 24 Pulitzer Prizes . The newspaper has been awarded 24 Pulitzer Prizes since beginning publication in 1903. Well-known columnists include Pulitzer-winning political commentator Leonard Pitts Jr. , Pulitzer-winning reporter Mirta Ojito , humorist Dave Barry and novelist Carl Hiaasen . Other columnists have included Fred Grimm and sportswriters Michelle Kaufman ,

2184-494: Is named for, were held in contempt of court by the Dade County Circuit Court for two publications it made on November 2 and November 7 in 1944, both of which were critical of the court's operations. The Supreme Court sided with Pennekamp and the Herald , and ultimately held that under the facts of that case, "the danger to fair judicial administration has not the clearness and immediacy necessary to close

2262-449: Is now published by the IFP ( Independent Filmmaker Project ), which acts in the independent film community. With a readership of more than 60,000, the magazine includes interviews, case studies, financing and distribution information, festival reports, technical and production updates, legal pointers, and filmmakers on filmmaking in their own words. The magazine used to be available outside

2340-599: Is sponsored by organizations with ties to South Florida; the cash awards have been made possible over the years in part by the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. Miami Herald Media Company, which owns the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald , is headquartered in Sweetwater, Miami-Dade County, Florida . The previous headquarters, One Herald Plaza, were located on

2418-711: The Arsht Center . Many of these original films went on to screen at festivals and win awards globally, to the extent that at SXSW that year, 5 of the 34 shorts in competition came from Borscht. Among them were the works by Seimetz, Rowlson-Hall, Bernardo Britto, and a musical by Mayer & Leyva which brought Borscht back to Sundance for a third consecutive year. When the Bosh animation was released online, it went viral. The next edition took place December 17–21, 2014. Titled Borscht 9, it featured increasingly outlandish events bigger in scope than previous iterations. They created

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2496-531: The Herald ' s oldest competitor until 1988, when it went out of business. During the Florida land boom of the 1920s , the Miami Herald was the largest newspaper in the world, as measured by lines of advertising. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the Herald came close to receivership , but recovered. On October 25, 1939, John S. Knight , son of a noted Ohio newspaperman, bought

2574-662: The Herald challenged the law, and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court. The Court unanimously overturned the Florida statute under the Press Freedom Clause of the First Amendment , ruling that "Governmental compulsion on a newspaper to publish that which 'reason' tells it should not be published is unconstitutional." The decision showed the limitations of a 1969 decision, Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission , in which

2652-581: The Herald from Frank B. Shutts. Knight became editor and publisher, and made his brother, James L. Knight , the business manager. The Herald had 383 employees. Lee Hills arrived as city editor in September 1942. He later became the Herald ' s publisher and eventually the chairman of Knight-Ridder Inc. , a position he held until 1981. The Herald was also involved in its first First Amendment Supreme Court case, Pennekamp v. Florida 328 U.S. 331 (1946), in which it and one of its editors, John D. Pennekamp for whom John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park

2730-475: The Herald won four Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards (then called the Penney-Missouri Awards) for General Excellence. The section won the award in 1960, the year of the awards' inauguration. In 1961, it won again, and the program director asked Anderson to sit the 1962 awards out. In 1963 the paper took second place, and in 1964 another first, and the paper was barred from competing for

2808-545: The Herald , namely Miguel Cossio, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Juan Manuel Cao, Ariel Remos, Omar Claro, Helen Aguirre Ferre, Paul Crespo, and Ninoska Perez-Castellón, were also paid for programs on Radio Martí or TV Martí , both financed by the government of the United States through the Broadcasting Board of Governors , receiving a total of between US$ 15,000 and US$ 175,000 since 2001. In May 2011,

2886-481: The Herald Hunt , a unique annual puzzlehunt in the Miami area. The Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards is one of the most highly regarded student awards programs in the United States. The Awards program recognizes outstanding individuals and leaders who have maintained good grades and have applied their knowledge and talents to contribute service to their schools and communities. The Silver Knight Awards program

2964-579: The Miami Herald and El Universal of Mexico City created an international joint venture, and in 2004 they together launched The Herald Mexico , a short-lived English-language newspaper for readers in Mexico. Its final issue was published in May 2007. On July 27, 2005, former Miami city commissioner Arthur Teele walked into the main lobby of the Herald ' s headquarters and phoned Herald columnist Jim DeFede, one of several telephone conversations that

3042-468: The Miami Herald on December 1, 1910. Shutts, originally from Indiana, had come to Florida to monitor the bankruptcy proceedings of the Fort Dallas Bank. Although it is the longest continuously published newspaper in Miami, the earliest newspaper in the region was The Tropical Sun , established in 1891. The Miami Metropolis , which later became The Miami News , was founded in 1896, and was

3120-584: The Miami Science Museum Planetarium . Attendees were encouraged to bring sleeping bags. By 2008 Leyva had moved back to Miami from New York. His time away made him realize the untapped cinematic potential of the city. He began collaborating with Andrew Hevia to refocus the festival on regional storytelling. They formed a collective with other like-minded artists under the CCCV ( Roman numeral for 305, Miami's area code) banner and issued

3198-482: The U.S. Southern Command center. The newspaper used 110,000 square feet (10,000 m ) of space for office purposes. In 2013 there were 650 people working there. The newspaper had purchased land adjacent to the headquarters to build the 119,000-square-foot (11,100 m ) printing plant. The newspaper, working during the COVID-19 pandemic in Florida , was to close its Doral offices in August 2020 and later relocate to

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3276-728: The Borscht Festival later went on to screen at Cannes , Sundance , Toronto , SXSW , and various other festivals. The Borscht Film Festival was founded by Lucas Levya and a group of New World School of the Arts alums in 2005. The origins of the festival are traced to a series of events by a group of New World School of the Arts students in 2004. There was no film program at the public high school, so students from different art programs pooled equipment and resources to help each other create short films based on different challenges inspired by The Five Obstructions . They would then host parties with names such as "Smudged" and "UnMinced" to screen

3354-565: The Hispanic community in the USA. In 1997, the Miami Herald assigned the first national reporter charged with covering LGBT news. Reporter Steve Rothaus, who had been with the paper since 1985, was assigned to this post. After more than 33 years with the paper, Rothaus retired in 2019 as part of a buyout offer made to 450 employees. In 2002, the Miami Herald launched its own Home & Design magazine (created by Sarah Harrelson ). In 2003,

3432-476: The Miami Herald for each category interviews the nominees in that category. Each panel selects one Silver Knight and three Honorable Mentions in its category for each of the two counties (30 Silver Knights and 90 Honorable Mentions each year). The honorees are revealed during the Silver Knight Awards ceremony, televised locally from Miami's James L. Knight Center . In 2020, Silver Knights received

3510-504: The Multiverse! wherein the basketball player was posited to be a disgraced extradimensional prince pretending to be a human. When Bosh threatened legal action, the festival publicly released the cease and desist letters, digitally vandalized with the text "all life is real life" and an animated broadsword -wielding Bosh. In interviews the filmmakers claimed that the film was a documentary commissioned by Bosh himself, and that our world

3588-643: The South... They’re going through the same struggle right now" This and 3 other works by Mayer & Leyva were in competition at SXSW that same year, landing them a spot on Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" list. Another short, Chlorophyl, was the first movie by Barry Jenkins set in his home town, and set the stage for his return to make what would eventually become Moonlight . In contemporaneous interviews he foreshadowed his return: “I’m now working with [playwright] Tarell Alvin McCraney on

3666-956: The US in London but has not been on sale in the UK since early 2009. 25 New Faces of Independent Film: Each year (typically in the Summer issue), Filmmaker publishes its list of independent film's emerging talent. The list typically contains directors, producers, actors and animators. Past lists have featured Ryan Gosling , Andrew Bujalski , Anna Boden , Ryan Fleck , Greg Pak , Oren Peli , Miranda July , Tze Chun , Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass , Zoe Kazan , Lena Dunham , Rooney Mara , Azazel Jacobs , Craig Zobel , Elliot Page , and Hilary Swank . Sources: Miami Herald 25°48′25″N 80°20′38″W  /  25.8070°N 80.3440°W  / 25.8070; -80.3440 The Miami Herald

3744-514: The age of 30 (including the first screenplay by Tarell Alvin McCraney ), each representing a different neighborhood in Miami. They screened these shorts, as well as others from local filmmakers, at the next Borscht Film Festival. The screening sold out the 1700-seat Gusman Theater in downtown Miami , with people attempting to scalp the free tickets to those waiting outside the over-capacity venue. The 2009 festival expanded to three days and took place November 28–30, 2009. Other programming included

3822-472: The columnist, holding that the potential violation was "without a (living) victim or a complainant". On September 8, 2006, the Miami Herald ' s president Jesús Díaz Jr. fired three journalists because they had allegedly been paid by the United States government to work for anti-Cuba propaganda TV and radio channels. The three were Pablo Alfonso, Wilfredo Cancio Isla and Olga Connor. Less than

3900-481: The crown jewel in a now-burgeoning Miami filmmaking scene. And the world is taking notice." The growing international awareness was reflected by press reactions that were befuddled by its chaotic nature yet overall revelatory. Filmmaker Magazine called it “a spirited and distinctly local reinvention of not just the concept of the film festival but also the entire notion of a regional presenting organization”, an IndieWire headline called it "the weirdest film festival on

3978-614: The door of permissible public comment, and the judgment is reversed as violative of petitioners' right of free expression in the press under the First and Fourteenth Amendments." The Miami Herald International Edition , printed by partner newspapers throughout the Caribbean and Latin America , began in 1946. It is commonly available at resorts in the Caribbean countries such as the Dominican Republic , and, though printed by

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4056-478: The festival called "The Bosh Film Festival" at the Miami Art Museum wherein anyone could bring their own projector and play whatever they wanted. It also hosted early musical performances by Yung Jake , Hundred Waters , and a man in an alligator costume singing ballads. The titular film did not screen at this event, perhaps for legal reasons. It did however, have a surprise screening at the main event at

4134-711: The festival. Some festivals played the entire Borscht lineup, such as the Glasgow Short Film Festival and the Key West Film Festival, which led to the headline "Is the Next Great Hope of American Film Hiding In Florida?" In 2016, they announced a surprise "flash" festival with one week’s notice titled Borscht 9.5, programmed against the Miami International Film Festival ’s GEMS festival, held at

4212-403: The film with airbrushed posters and whoopee cushions bearing Uncle Luke's face left on theater seats before films which became highly sought after collector items, and hosting booty bass parties with Uncle Luke, who had taken them under his wing saying: "When I look at these Borscht guys, they remind me so much of myself when I was starting with music and it was unheard of to be a rapper from

4290-579: The finished films for each other and their peers. After graduating high school in 2005, the group continued to collaborate on videos. With most of the filmmakers attending schools out of state, and no place to showcase their movies locally, Leyva organized the first official Borscht Film Festival on December 30, 2005 at the Miami Shores Performing Arts Theater. It was hosted by a functional robot named Paris Hilton. The 2nd Borscht Film Festival took place on August 2, 2007 at

4368-441: The kind of heady, collective 23-year-old energy that dependably says, "F*** Hollywood. We can do this all ourselves. Our stop signs shall be famous also." Technology and a nasty wake of dreamers have seemingly come to a head, allowing Borscht's 20-somethings to plant a flag, and allowing Miami's denizens, naturally, to realize there's money to be made, and an identity to be seized, cultivated, and home grown." The journalist also noted

4446-462: The largest local newspaper Listín Diario , it is not available outside such tourist areas. It was extended to Mexico in 2002. The Herald won its first Pulitzer Prize in 1950, for its reporting on Miami's organized crime . Its circulation was 176,000 daily and 204,000 on Sundays. On August 19, 1960, construction began on the Herald building on Biscayne Bay . Also on that day, Alvah H. Chapman , started work as James Knight's assistant. Chapman

4524-510: The largest permanently established projection surface in North America , hypnotized filmmaker Amy Seimetz for a Q&A of her own film, and staged a "celebrity animal petting zoo" in an independent cinema. The response to the festival was positive, with local press calling it a triumphant return and their best iteration. It was the first time national press covered the festival en masse, who lauded it for its experiential programs, being

4602-647: The late Edwin Pope , Dan Le Batard , Bea Hines and Greg Cote. The Miami Herald participates in "Politifact Florida", a website that focuses on Florida issues, with the Tampa Bay Times . The Herald and the Times share resources on news stories related to Florida. In 1903, Frank B. Stoneman, father of Marjory Stoneman Douglas , reorganized and moved the Orlando Record to Miami. The first edition

4680-534: The most conceptually bold film festival of its era, and also a reinvention of the concept of a film festival. Over the years the festival grew from a small, one night underground screening of student films to an internationally recognized event that became influential in the world of independent film for its inspired programming and curation, supporting the early work of artists like Jillian Mayer , Barry Jenkins , Tarell Alvin McCraney , John Wilson , Terence Nance , Rachel Rossin , and more. Films that first played at

4758-451: The ocean. They also hosted a machete fencing workshop, threw a fake Criterion Collection release party for a local con man, and built a large scale “theme park” based on their short films, complete with DIY rides, hydraulic sharks, and EKG -controlled carnival games. In the lead-up to the festival, they remade Brian De Palma ’s Scarface by crowdsourcing 15 second clips, then premiered it at Mansion Nightclub on South Beach (formerly

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4836-433: The opera house the following night, where the audience went wild. When asked about the incident Chris Bosh said “Kind of left it alone, I didn’t want to get involved.” Other festival events happened at a condemned Marine Stadium , a Jai Alai fronton , marine biology laboratory, and Versailles , where they staged Fidel Castro ’s death years before it actually happened. They also played footage of psychedelic sea life on

4914-449: The paper announced it had sold 14 acres (5.7 ha) of Biscayne Bayfront land surrounding its headquarters in the Arts & Entertainment District of Downtown Miami for $ 236   million, to a Malaysian resort developer, Genting Malaysia Berhad . McClatchy announced that the Herald and El Nuevo Herald would be moving to another location by 2013. In May 2013, the paper moved to

4992-531: The paper's readers. Wishes have included asking for donations to buy medical equipment for a sick child, help with renovations to make a home wheelchair -accessible, monetary donations to an impoverished family dealing with cancer treatments, and help to an elderly resident wanting to learn how to use a computer . Readers may donate to specific causes or to the program at large. The Herald also co-sponsors spelling bees and athletic awards in South Florida. The "Tropic" section and its columnist Dave Barry run

5070-634: The planet", Moviemaker Magazine named it one of the "coolest film festivals in the world" and in Artforum , Nick Pinkerton wrote "if not the world, then Borscht has a decent claim on owning Miami." With programmers from international festivals now attending, Borscht became a launchpad for film festival runs and careers. Bernardo Britto's short Yearbook won the Sundance Jury Prize in 2014, then in 2015 two more Borscht shorts returned to Sundance, and in 2016 five Borscht projects premiered at

5148-497: The same time from October 12–15, 2016. In a coup, Moonlight held its Miami premiere at Borscht 9.5, choosing them over the much larger Miami International Film Festival for their role in its development. This, coupled with the Borscht 9.5's official web domain of realmiamigems.com and tagline of “cuz the real gems were made in Miami bro” led to a feud where the Miami International Film Festival director called Borscht “unoriginal” and derisively referred to them as “the soup festival,”

5226-465: The two had had during the day, to say that he had a package for DeFede. He then asked a security officer to tell his (Teele's) wife Stephanie that he loved her, before pulling out a gun and committing suicide . This happened the day the Miami New Times , a weekly newspaper, published salacious details of Teele's alleged affairs, including allegations that he had had sex and used cocaine with

5304-438: The unusual (at the time) practice of embracing online videos in their programming. Several of the shorts did in fact go viral on YouTube and Vimeo , and many went on to screen at other festivals around the world, including a 2nd year in a row at Sundance. The collective broke through at Sundance 2012 with a remake of La Jetée by Mayer and festival director Lucas Leyva titled Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke. They promoted

5382-726: The world. In 2010, Borscht was awarded their first grant by the Knight Foundation . The 23-year-old festival director accepted the award with the Knight Foundation logo shaved into his head, which convinced CEO Alberto Ibargüen to support them. With the funding, they created a free open call for Miami movie pitches and founded the Borscht Corporation to oversee production of the commissioned films. The 2011 festival expanded to two weekends, taking place between April 16 and April 23, 2011. Events featured

5460-408: The year. In addition to a new round of local short film commissions, including collaborations with local musicians Otto von Schirach , Blowfly , Jacuzzi Boys , and DJ Laz , they had invited guest filmmakers such as native Floridian Amy Seimetz, Adan Jodorowsky , Ray Tintori , Celia Rowlson-Hall , Julia Pott and others to collaborate on Miami-set films. These were premiered at the main event at

5538-426: Was awarded "Best Film Festival" by the Miami New Times in their annual "Best of Miami" awards. It marked the first time their work was noticed outside of Miami, as commissioned shorts later screened at Cannes, Tribeca and Sundance Film Festivals respectively, and Jillian Mayer ’s Scenic Jogging was chosen as one of the winners of YouTube Play Creative Video Biennial and screened at Guggenheim Museums around

5616-490: Was in danger. The NBA responded with a cease and desist letter of their own. The filmmakers held everything they said was true somewhere in the multiverse . The controversy was the subject of an article in The Miami Herald sports section which began “Chris Bosh is definitely not a disgraced space prince. And his attorneys want to make sure he is not portrayed as one.” Borscht then actually hosted an event during

5694-852: Was instituted at the Miami Herald in 1959 by John S. Knight , past publisher of The Miami Herald, founder and editor emeritus of Knight-Ridder Newspapers and winner of the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. The program is open to high school seniors with a minimum 3.2 GPA (unweighted) in public, charter, private, and parochial schools in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Students may be recognized in one of 15 categories: Art, Athletics, Business, Digital and Interactive (previously New Media), Drama, English and Literature, General Scholarship, Journalism, Mathematics, Music and Dance, Science, Social Science, Speech, Vocational-Technical, and World Languages. Each school may only nominate one student per category. A panel of independent judges appointed by

5772-726: Was later promoted to Knight-Ridder chairman and chief executive officer. The Herald moved into its new building at One Herald Plaza without missing an edition on March 23–24, 1963. The paper also won another press freedom case in Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo (1974). In the case, Pat Tornillo Jr., president of the United Teachers of Dade, had requested that the Herald print his rebuttal to an editorial criticizing him, citing Florida's "right-to-reply" law, which mandated that newspapers print such responses. Represented by longtime counsel Dan Paul ,

5850-476: Was likely guilty of a felony. Many journalists and readers of the Herald disagreed with the decision to fire rather than suspend DeFede, arguing that it had been made in haste and that the punishment was disproportionate to the offense. 528 journalists, including about 200 current and former Herald staffers, called on the Herald to reinstate DeFede, but the paper's management refused to back down. The state attorney's office later declined to file charges against

5928-550: Was not necessary at that point to be located in the city center, and remaining there would be too expensive. The newspaper moved to its current Doral headquarters in 2013. On April 28, 2014, demolition began on the building on Biscayne Bay between the MacArthur and Venetian causeways. In a later period it was headquartered in Doral, Florida . It is located in a two‑story, 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m ) building that had been

6006-557: Was published September 15, 1903, as the Miami Evening Record . After the recession of 1907, the newspaper had severe financial difficulties. In December 1907 it began to publish as the Miami Morning News-Record . Its largest creditor was Henry Flagler . Through a loan from Henry Flagler, Frank B. Shutts, who was also the founder of the law firm Shutts & Bowen , acquired the paper and renamed it

6084-427: Was to build community within the loose network of regional independent film centers around the world towards a new distribution model. In the lead-up to the festival, Borscht falsely claimed that Miami Heat player Chris Bosh donated 1% of his salary to rename their event "The Bosh Film Festival." This was later revealed to be a marketing stunt in promotion of an animated film titled Adventures of Christopher Bosh in

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