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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 Festival: Best-of-Fest 2025

🗓️ Wednesday, December 03, 2025

🕔 6:30 PM – 10:00 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.

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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.