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ArtesMiami Inc. recently presented the first Career Recognition Awards to Adriana Bosch and René Rodríguez during a reception and dinner at the Pinecrest residence of Aida Levitan, PhD, president of ArtesMiami, and her husband Fernando Petit.
Each recipient received a $ 2,500 donation from ArtesMiami. Dr. Levitan also announced the creation of the ArtesMiami Documentary Fund. Filmmakers Kareem Tabsch and Alex Fumero will coordinate the program, select the judges and communicate the opportunity to fellow filmmakers.
Adriana Bosch is a renowned documentary filmmaker with more than 30 years of experience, producer of the national television series Latino Americans and Latin Music USA and, recently, of the documentary Letters to Eloísa about the poet Lezama Lima.
René Rodríguez was for 25 years a film critic for The Miami Herald, where he interviewed everyone from Madonna to Spike Lee, from Oliver Stone to Steven Spielberg, from Meryl Streep to Robert de Niro. He recently was appointed director of the Bill Cosford Cinema.
During the evening, Alberto Ibarguen, president of the Knight Foundation, presented a donation of $10,000 to ArtesMiami for its Documentary Fund project, which was announced that night by Dr. Levitan. The annual fund will support Cuban-American documentary producers and directors and/or producers and directors who are producing a documentary on the Cuban-American diaspora.
Documentary filmmakers soon will be able to apply for funding to this new ArtesMiami program at www.artesmiami.org. This program is made possible by donors like Levitan, the Knight Foundation, and others. The event, co-sponsored by Prosecco Zero, was attended by ArtesMiami donors and cultural and business leaders, including Miami Herald deputy managing editor Alex Mena, Mike Valdés-Fauli (Prosecco Zero), Rafael and Marijean Miyar, Peter Zubizarreta, Japanese Consul Kazuhiro Nakai, Raymond de León, Miami Film Festival founder Nat Chediak and Conchita Espinosa, Dora Valdés-Fauli, artist Emanuel Ribas, Dr. Antonio Prats, and others.
ArtesMiami is a non-profit organization founded by Levitan in 1995, to support and promote artists and cultural organizations, in order to strengthen South Florida’s position as an international cultural center.
For additional information, visit https://artesmiami.org and follow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @artesmiami.
