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FilmGate Interactive — Miami New Times Best Festival

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LEARN

Learn valuable skills and tools through our regular programs and classes led by some of the industry's best talent.

CREATE

Create and showcase your projects during monthly screenings, in the curated gallery, or in our annual interactive festival.

SHOW

Create and showcase your projects during monthly screenings, in the curated gallery, or in our annual interactive festival.

MEMBERS

FilmGate Miami member? Log in to your account and access exclusive features. Interested in membership? Learn more!

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MEMBER

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Raymond Knudsen

Raymond Knudsen (he/him) is an award-winning Filipino-American writer, director and producer based in NYC. Knudsen founded BIG BLUE PICTURES in 2020. Knudsen has produced multiple short films including WEAPONS AND THEIR NAMES (Sundance, Palm Springs ShortFest) and MONKEY BARS (NoBudge, NFFTY). As a writer/director, Knudsen is focused on his Filipino-American roots, competitive sports and house music. His latest short film, PREP, screened at the Indie Memphis Film Festival (Audience Choice: Best Departures Short), Mammoth Lakes Film Festival and Bend Film Festival. Knudsen was awarded the Florida Filmmaker Award from the Tallahassee Film Festival in 2023. PREP premiered on Short of the Week in 2024. Knudsen produced THE BIG GAME, which stars Joel Murray (MAD MEN) and is executive produced by Jim Cummings (THUNDER ROAD). Knudsen graduated from the FSU College of Motion Picture Arts in 2019.

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PROGRAM

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FilmGate Festival: Best-of-Fest 2025

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

6:30 PM - 10 PM

Silverspot Cinema: 300 SE 3rd St, Miami, FL 33131

How time flew! It's time to celebrate Florida Film and their creators with all the previous winners of our past monthly editions. This is BEST of FEST 2025!

All previous winners will be competing for an array of awards, including the covenant Crystal Kraken Award.

Come celebrate our local creators in an amazing night of our best winning films and the battle to take home awards.


Film community networker B4 and After

Meet fellow creatives and film lovers before the screening—grab drinks, food, and mingle! Stick around after the event to chat about the films.


Percolator
Kick off the night with our Percolator!
Sign up and share your skills or what you’re looking for—just 1 minute to pitch.


Filmmaker Q & A
After the screening, join our featured filmmakers as they share insights about their process and inspiration.


Awards Ceremony
We’ll close the night by announcing the jury’s pick for Best Film, chosen by industry pros for artistic and technical excellence.

FEATURED
CLASS

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Machine Learning Masterclass: From Prompt to Planet Sized Storyworlds with Joss Gitlin

Saturday, January 17, 2026

10:00 AM - 1:30 PM

FilmGate Miami / Downtown Media Center: 168 SE 1st St, 4th Floor, Miami, FL 33131

Why settle for one skill when you can run the whole creative stack? This workshop is for makers who don’t just want to play with AI tools—they want to own them. In just one day, you’ll learn how to build entire visual worlds, animate them, give them voice, and stitch everything together into cinematic stories.


We’ll dive into the creative arsenal powering today’s storytellers:


  • Visuals with Midjourney – multi-angle character design, profile-to-close-up workflows, editor crash course, plus custom Glibatree ChatGPT prompt generation.


  • Animation with Runway, Kling, & Luma – breathing life into stills with accessible video tools (and their low-cost competitors).


  • Dialogue with ElevenLabs & Sesame – cloning voices, changing tones, and syncing dialogue with visuals.


  • Compositing & Cohesion – using Photoshop Harmonize, Runway lipsync, and budget-friendly sound design tools.


  • The Truth About Google Veo – why it’s expensive, inconsistent, and what alternatives (and their tradeoffs) you should know about.


  • Advanced Hacksfal.ai, Flux Kontext, and even building your own basic storyboarder app.


By the end, you’ll walk away with a complete pipeline to transform prompts into fully-formed storyworlds—and the confidence to run it all from your own machine.

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