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

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CREATE

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

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

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Alejandro Lopez Rodas

A little bit about me — my name is Landro. I’m a filmmaker based in Miami, Florida, and I’ve been doing this for about four years now. I’m originally from Guatemala and moved to the U.S. in 2019.

Storytelling has always been my passion. Ever since I was a kid, I used to make up stories for my friends — basically, I was lying, but that’s when I realized I was actually good at making things up. Since then, I knew this was something I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

Filmmaking makes me happy — it can definitely be stressful at times, but that’s just part of it. And honestly, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

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FilmGate Miami 2026 All-Access Pass

FilmGate All Access Pass 2026

A Year of Feature Filmmaking, AI Creativity & Limitless Storytelling

Step into the future of storytelling with the FilmGate All Access Pass 2026 — your all-inclusive passport to a year of cinematic growth, collaboration, and creative evolution.

Designed for filmmakers, writers, and innovators, this pass unlocks every FilmGate program throughout 2026 — helping you shape your feature film, expand your network, and use AI as a creative tool to bring your vision to life.

Includes Access To:

✨ All Monthly FilmGate Festivals – Celebrate Florida’s boldest filmmakers and connect with the local creative community.

🌌 All FilmGate Fusion Events – Immersive audiovisual showcases at Frost Planetarium & Downtown Miami that fuse art, story, and technology.

🎭 All Why the Drama? Live! Performances – Experience storytelling come alive through live scene readings and actor collaborations.

🎓 All Master Classes & Educational Workshops – Learn hands-on skills in feature filmmaking, producing, financing, distribution, and AI-powered creative media.

🤝 All Networking Events – Build real industry connections with producers, casting directors, and creative collaborators.

(Excludes FilmGate Interactive Media Festival 2026 events and talks)

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

📅 Saturday, January 17, 2026
🕙 1:30 PM - 5:00 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 Hacks – fal.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.