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Anita Castiglione + Paul Posnak: A Lifetime Making Music

Posted by on Apr 20, 2025 in Home-Slider, Interviews, Performing Arts | Comments Off on Anita Castiglione + Paul Posnak: A Lifetime Making Music

Anita Castiglione + Paul Posnak:  A Lifetime Making Music

PAUL POSNAK’S international career as a concert pianist, recording artist, transcriber and sought-after teacher began as a child prodigy with a full scholarship to the Juilliard Preparatory School of Music at the age of eight. He performs frequently as duo-pianist with his wife, ANITA CASTIGLIONE whose career as a soloist, collaborative pianist, choral accompanist, and music educator began with piano studies in Massachusetts at the age of six. She has performed extensively as a soloist and collaborative pianist throughout the United States.

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Waltzing with Billy Zane

Posted by on Apr 17, 2025 in Home-Slider, Interviews, Performing Arts, Visual Arts | Comments Off on Waltzing with Billy Zane

Waltzing with Billy Zane

BILLY ZANE is an actor, filmmaker, and visual artist. His breakthrough role was in the Australian film “Dead Calm” (1989). He has since appeared in numerous films and television series and starred as the main antagonist Caledon Hockley in the epic film “Titanic” (1997), the Phantom in “The Phantom,” (1996) and Marlon Brando in “Waltzing with Brando” (2024).

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Miami New Drama’s “Birthright” Is Full of Character Amid Plenty Of Complexity

Posted by on Apr 16, 2025 in Home-Slider, Interviews, Performing Arts | Comments Off on Miami New Drama’s “Birthright” Is Full of Character Amid Plenty Of Complexity

Miami New Drama’s “Birthright” Is Full of Character Amid Plenty Of Complexity

Miami New Drama’s “Birthright” is like “Friends” but with a deeper meaning and Jewish identity at its core. The play tackles plenty of issues from the perspective of six friends who form alliances during a rite-of-passage trip to Israel.

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2025 Miami Film Festival Showcases Films Made in South Florida

Posted by on Apr 6, 2025 in Interviews, Performing Arts | Comments Off on 2025 Miami Film Festival Showcases Films Made in South Florida

2025 Miami Film Festival Showcases Films Made in South Florida

One of the highlights of the Miami Film Festival is the chance to see movies made right here in the 305. For the 42nd year of the festival, opening Thursday, April 3 and running through Sunday, April 13, there is an impressive array of narratives and documentaries that are produced in the MIA.

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Juliet Romeo: Filmmaker, Journalist, Activist

Posted by on Mar 15, 2025 in Home-Slider, Interviews, Literary Arts, Performing Arts | Comments Off on Juliet Romeo: Filmmaker, Journalist, Activist

Juliet Romeo:  Filmmaker, Journalist, Activist

JULIET ROMEO is an award-winning writer and director known for her dedication to bold, authentic storytelling. A Brooklyn-born Trinidadian filmmaker based in South Florida, she brings her lived experiences as a disabled Caribbean woman into her work, creating narratives that explore identity, resilience, and social justice.

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James Woolley: Executive Director of the Miami Film Festival

Posted by on Mar 6, 2025 in Interviews, Performing Arts | Comments Off on James Woolley: Executive Director of the Miami Film Festival

James Woolley:  Executive Director of the Miami Film Festival

In 2024, JAMES WOOLLEY became the Executive Director of the Miami Film Festival. He has worked on more than 20 large-scale film festivals throughout his career, including the Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane Film Festivals. Most recently, he was executive director of the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco.

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Mary Ellen Scherl: Art with Backstories

Posted by on Feb 17, 2025 in Interviews, Performing Arts, Visual Arts | Comments Off on Mary Ellen Scherl: Art with Backstories

Mary Ellen Scherl:  Art with Backstories

After a 17-year career as an Art Director at two premier advertising agencies, MARY ELLEN SCHERL transitioned from commercial art to fine art — sculpture, painting, installation photography, writing, and most recently filmmaking.

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Alan Zweibel Knows Funny

Posted by on Feb 10, 2025 in Interviews, Literary Arts, Performing Arts | Comments Off on Alan Zweibel Knows Funny

Alan Zweibel Knows Funny

An original “Saturday Night Live” writer, ALAN ZWEIBEL has won five Emmy Awards for his work in television, which also includes “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” (which he co-created and produced), “The Late Show with David Letterman” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

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Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson: Born to Make Music

Posted by on Feb 2, 2025 in Interviews, Performing Arts | Comments Off on Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson: Born to Make Music

Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson:  Born to Make Music

In 2005, JERI LYNNE JOHNSON made history as the first Black woman to win an international conducting prize when she was awarded the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship.  Since then she has continued to break barriers in Europe and the US as the first woman and/or African-American woman on the podium for many orchestras and opera companies in the US and Europe. Johnson is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra. 

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Daniel Robbins: Filmmaker

Posted by on Jan 30, 2025 in Interviews, Performing Arts | Comments Off on Daniel Robbins: Filmmaker

Daniel Robbins:  Filmmaker

DANIEL ROBBINS is a filmmaker best known for the 2018 horror film “Pledge” and the 2024 comedy “Bad Shabbos,” which won the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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