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Miami Film Festival Screening of Hija de Florinda

  • Cosford Cinema 5030 Brunson Drive Coral Gables, FL, 33146 United States (map)

hija de Florinda will be featured in the Miami Film Festival’s Subtropic Shorts Block. Set in the Florida Everglades, a young Naomi learns from her grandmother how to nurture nature's grief through the ancestral practice of controlled burns. By integrating archival footage of Black Dominican farmer and abolitionist Mama Tingo (birth name: Florinda Soriano Muñoz), this film invites us to mourn alongside Mama Earth as she calls upon all of her children.

Directed By Shenny de Los Angeles, Amanda Morell "iiritu" + Producer Love Soulèy, Flor de Oro Tejada+ Writer & Narration Shenny de Los Angeles & Arsimmer McCoy + Cinematographer Edson Reyes + Editor Mireya Martinez


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