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    Five Miami Encuentros projects in running for prize

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    "My Friend From The Park"
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    Now in its 12th year, Miami Encuentros is presented through the VeoMiami industry program which runs parallel to Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival. One winning project will receive a $10,000 cash prize presented by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

    The purpose of Miami Encuentros is to facilitate completion of feature films that are currently in postproduction, produced partially or entirely by Ibero-American based production companies, or from U.S. Hispanic filmmakers. The program aims to propel these projects towards their eventual debuts on the international stage after completion, supporting the filmmakers through a blend of exposure at the Festival and awards to the most meritorious project as selected by a jury of international film professionals. In addition to  the $10,000 cash prize, the winning project will also receive a DCP Mastering Service package from Madrid’s Aracne Digital Cinema valued at 5,000.

    The five selected Miami Encuentros projects this time around are:

    —The Apostate (El apóstata) (Spain / France / Uruguay, produced by Guadalupe Balaguer Trelles, Fernando Franco, and Federico Veiroj, directed by Federico Veiroj). Veiroj has had two previous films in Miami International Film Festival’s Official Selection: Acné at the 2009 Festival and A Useful Life (La vida útil) at the 2011 Festival.

    —Lost North (Sin norte) (Chile, produced by Luis Cifuentes and Francisca Urrutia, directed by Fernando Lavanderos). Lavanderos has previously directed the feature film Things the Way They Are (Las cosas como son) (2012), an award winner at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Cifuentes also produced In the Grayscale (En las gamas de gris), which is world premiering in Miami International Film Festival’s Official Selection this year as part of the Lexus Ibero-American Opera Prima Competition.

    —My Friend from the Park (Mi amiga del parque) (Argentina / Uruguay, produced by Nicolás Avruj, Diego Lerman and Ana Katz, directed by Ana Katz). Katz has previously directed three feature films, including A Stray Girlfriend (Una novia errante), which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Avruj and Lerman have had one previous film in the Miami International Film Festival’s Official Selection, Lerman’s The Invisible Eye (La mirada invisible) at the 2011 Festival.

    —Strange Days (Dias extraños) (Argentina / Colombia, produced by Juan Villegas, Rodrigo Moreno and Juan Sebastián Quebrada, directed by Juan Sebastián Quebrada). This is Quebrada’s debut feature film. Villegas has had two previous films in Miami International Film Festival’s Official Selection, as executive producer of Celina Murga’s A Week Alone (Una semana solos) at the 2009 Festival and Gonzalo Tobal’s Villegas at the 2013 Festival.

    —Wounded Man (Te prometo anarquía) (Mexico / Germany, produced by Sandra Gómez, Maximiliano Cruz and Julio Hernández Cordón and directed by Julio Hernández Cordón). Hernández Cordón has had three previous films in Miami International Film Festival’s Official Selection, Gasoline (Gasolina) at the 2009 Festival, Dust (Polvo) at the 2013 Festival, and Marimbas from Hell (Marimbas del infierno) at the 2011 Festival, which also won that year’s Knight Ibero-American Grand Jury Prize.

    The program was curated by Diana Sanchez, an influential expert on Latin American cinema, who created the program for Miami International Film Festival in 2003 with then-director Nicole Guillemet.

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    OpenAI files confidential SEC paperwork for IPO, opening the door to a Wall Street debut

    Tuesday, June 9, 2026
    Sam Altman arrives at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, file)

    ChatGPT maker OpenAI filed preliminary paperwork that would open the door to it becoming a publicly traded company, the third in a powerhouse trio of artificial intelligence companies racing to Wall Street debuts.

    The San Francisco-based company said Monday it has filed confidential paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

    "We expect it to leak so we're just announcing it," the company said in a statement. "We have not decided on timing yet; it may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company. But it's a complicated set of tradeoffs and this gives us the option to go public sooner if that ends up being best."

    OpenAI's move follows its rival Anthropic's June 1 disclosure that it is also moving toward an initial public offering of shares. Both are now following Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX, which has started an IPO roadshow pitching itself as an AI-focused space company.

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first publicly floated the possibility of an IPO last fall, describing it as the "most likely path" for the company given its size and the need for vast amounts of capital to advance its technology.

    OpenAI began in 2015 as a nonprofit dedicated to developing AI for the common good and is now a company valued at $852 billion.

    The filing comes at a "precarious moment" for OpenAI as it appears to be losing ChatGPT's strong early leads with consumers and businesses to Google and Anthropic, said Emarketer analyst Nate Elliott.

    "But OpenAI doesn't have a lot of other places to look for the enormous capital required to support its costs," Elliott said.

    Paving the way for going public was OpenAI's decision last year to reorganize its business structure and... Read More

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