Maryse Legagneur’s drama The Last Meal (Le Dernier Repas) has earned the top prize at the Miami Film Festival, winning the $15,000 Marimbas Award in international competition. The award, chosen by a jury, goes to a narrative feature film that “best exemplifies richness and resonance for cinema’s future.”
“After 20 years of silence, a dying Reynold asks his estranged daughter, Vanessa, to share his final meals,” notes a description of The Last Meal. “As she prepares the traditional Haitian dishes of his youth, the familiar flavors unlock painful, buried memories of his life and suffering under the Duvalier dictatorship.
“Set against this backdrop of shared history, The Last Meal is a poignant tale of reconciliation, exploring the power of food, cultural memory, and confronting the past to heal fractured family bonds within the Haitian experience. A beautifully crafted film about legacy, healing, and the stories we carry in our bodies and kitchens.
“After 20 years of silence, a dying Reynold asks his estranged daughter, Vanessa, to share his final meals,” notes a description of The Last Meal. “As she prepares the traditional Haitian dishes of his youth, the familiar flavors unlock painful, buried memories of his life and suffering under the Duvalier dictatorship.
“Set against this backdrop of shared history, The Last Meal is a poignant tale of reconciliation, exploring the power of food, cultural memory, and confronting the past to heal fractured family bonds within the Haitian experience. A beautifully crafted film about legacy, healing, and the stories we carry in our bodies and kitchens.
- 4/15/2025
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s always interesting to see which films are able to keep up their film festival momentum after buzzy premieres at early-in-the-year fests like Sundance and SXSW. Two to keep an eye on? Cole Webley’s Sundance premiere “Omaha” and Xander Robin’s SXSW crowdpleaser “The Python Hunt,” both of which just notched new wins over the weekend at the 2025 Miami Film Festival.
“The Python Hunt” picked up the Made in Mia Feature Film Award, sponsored by Panavision, which is designed to honor films “of any genre that prominently feature South Florida in their story, setting, and filming location, and best utilize South Florida’s story and theme for universal resonance.” Robin’s film, a documentary about snake-hunters in the Everglades, sure sounds like it fits the bill.
And Webley’s deep-feeling John Magaro-starring family drama, “Omaha,” earned the Jordan Ressler First Feature Award, created by the South Florida...
“The Python Hunt” picked up the Made in Mia Feature Film Award, sponsored by Panavision, which is designed to honor films “of any genre that prominently feature South Florida in their story, setting, and filming location, and best utilize South Florida’s story and theme for universal resonance.” Robin’s film, a documentary about snake-hunters in the Everglades, sure sounds like it fits the bill.
And Webley’s deep-feeling John Magaro-starring family drama, “Omaha,” earned the Jordan Ressler First Feature Award, created by the South Florida...
- 4/14/2025
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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Leslie Odom Jr. is going back to Hamilton
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The Last of Us posts premiere ratings
HBO shared Sunday night premiere ratings for dystopian drama The Last of Us. The Season 2 premiere garnered 5.3 million viewers on HBO and Max, a number that uses a combination of Nielsen’s measurement of linear TV viewers and Wbd's own streaming data. That's up 13 percent from the Season 1 premiere in 2023, which got 4.7 million viewers.
Leslie Odom Jr. is going back to Hamilton
You've been waiting for it, and now it's happening: Leslie Odom Jr. will be returning to Hamilton on Broadway this fall as Aaron Burr, the role he originated and won the Tony for Best Actor in a Musical in 2016 and shared a Grammy for the original cast recording. His run will last from Sept. 9 to Nov. 23 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's era-defining historical hip-hop musical, will celebrate its 10th anniversary on Broadway on Aug.
- 4/14/2025
- by Liam Mathews
- Gold Derby
After directing an episode of TV Land's Younger last season, Miriam Shor is set to play an embattled female filmmaker in Magic Hour, an indie comedy by Jacqueline Christy to shoot in New York City.
Shor has the lead role of Harriet, a long-suffering housewife who fulfills her dream of going to film school without telling her philandering husband and self-involved teenage daughter.
As she leads a double life as a film student and gets her first professional directing gig, Harriet discovers a film set is a cutthroat place run by bullies and their terrified minions, leaving her to decide ...
Shor has the lead role of Harriet, a long-suffering housewife who fulfills her dream of going to film school without telling her philandering husband and self-involved teenage daughter.
As she leads a double life as a film student and gets her first professional directing gig, Harriet discovers a film set is a cutthroat place run by bullies and their terrified minions, leaving her to decide ...
- 9/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
After directing an episode of TV Land's Younger last season, Miriam Shor is set to play an embattled female filmmaker in Magic Hour, an indie comedy by Jacqueline Christy to shoot in New York City.
Shor has the lead role of Harriet, a long-suffering housewife who fulfills her dream of going to film school without telling her philandering husband and self-involved teenage daughter.
As she leads a double life as a film student and gets her first professional directing gig, Harriet discovers a film set is a cutthroat place run by bullies and their terrified minions, leaving her to decide ...
Shor has the lead role of Harriet, a long-suffering housewife who fulfills her dream of going to film school without telling her philandering husband and self-involved teenage daughter.
As she leads a double life as a film student and gets her first professional directing gig, Harriet discovers a film set is a cutthroat place run by bullies and their terrified minions, leaving her to decide ...
- 9/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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