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FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS Indie Filmmaker Faren Humes, in middle wearing cap, is expanding 2 filmmakers shine light on a film project focused on Miami’s Liberty Liberty Square, Little Haiti Square. Humes is part of Oolite matic Arts Residency can Cinematic Arts Residents, Arts’ Cinematic be the step these filmmak- Xavier Medina and Monica Arts Residency ers need to significantly Sorelle, are now starting the program. advance their careers.” second year of the two-year Humes is using the resi- residency. dency to expand her much- Organizers said the celebrated short film “Lib- “farm-to-table style” resi- erty,” jury award winner for dency program helps film- HARRIS ALEX BY CHRISTINA MAYO Best Short at the Berlinale’s makers receive the support [email protected] Generation 14, SXSW and they need to shoot, produce Miami Film Festival. and screen their projects When Miami Gardens The plot focuses on the from start to finish in Mia- resident Faren Humes was main character Milagros, as mi. By displaying their tal- BUNRAKU-STYLE The story is oriented for day, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. More working as a location man- “she grapples with the ents on micro-budget fea- PUPPETRY EXPLORES adults. It was written by info at www.fundarte.us. ager for the Academy disappearance of her moth- tures they can be prepared BEAUTY acclaimed Chilean play- Award-winning film “Moon- er’s memorial just as she is to take on large-scale pro- In “Feos,” a man and a wright Guillermo Calde- FUNDRAISER AT light,” she learned all about forced to leave Liberty jects. woman who have spent rón, and inspired by the FAIRCHILD Liberty Square. Square so that her longtime A national jury of film their whole lives alone and story “La Noche de los Gala in the Garden has Now, the independent neighborhood can be razed experts chose Humes and subjected to stares due to Feos” by Mario Benedetti. been an important event filmmaker is expanding her to create a new housing Jean because of “their ex- their physical deformities Aline Kuppenheim di- for 25 years. Known for own film project, “Liberty,” complex.” tensive experience making have a chance encounter in rects the Teatro y Su Doble hosting South ’s based on the lives “I’m looking for- short films, their authorship line at a movie theater. production with puppets. philanthropists and com- of residents at the ward to capturing of projects that center on As the plot of this visual “This theatrical play can munity leaders, the event public housing how Liberty Square Miami stories, and because feast of Bunraku-style reach all people because aims to raise funds to allow complex in Liberty mirrors many com- their proposed projects puppetry continues, the one of the main issues is Fairchild Tropical Botanic City. munities across the embrace the ethos of micro- characters go “in search of the acceptance, not only of Garden to continue its Filmmaker Edson States,” Humes said. budget