Top brass at Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival announced on Tuesday (February 17) the five post-production selections.

Miami Encuentros is in its 12th year and is presented through the festival’s VeoMiami industry programme that runs parallel to the festival, set to run from March 6-15.

The winning project will receive a $10,000 cash prize presented by The John S and James L Knight Foundation.

The five Miami Encuentros 2015 projects are:

The Apostate (El Apóstata) (Spain-France-Uruguay), produced by Guadalupe Balaguer Trelles, Fernando Franco and Federico Veiroj, directed by Federico Veiroj;

Lost North (Sin Norte) (Chile), produced by Luis Cifuentes and Francisca Urrutia, directed by Fernando Lavanderos;

My Friend From The Park (Mi Amiga Del Parque) (Argentina-Uruguay), produced by Nicolás Avruj, Diego Lerman and Ana Katz, directed by Ana Katz;

Strange Days (Dias Extraños) (Argentina-Colombia), produced by Juan Villegas, Rodrigo Moreno and Juan Sebastián Quebrada, directed by Juan Sebastián Quebrada; and

Wounded Man (Te Prometo Anarquía) (Mexico- Germany), produced by Sandra Gómez, Maximiliano Cruz and Julio Hernández Cordón and directed by Julio Hernández Cordón.n

“Diana Sanchez has put together a phenomenal collection of projects that are certain to be the toast of the Ibero-American and international cinema worlds in the 2015-16 season,” said the festival’s executive director Jaie Laplante. “Her taste and her eye are uncommonly precise among the world’s programmers.”

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