Opening Night Gala Events

Gala Co-Chair - Lee Brian Schrager Director of Special Events and Media Relations, Southern Wine and Spirits of South Florida Gala Co-Chair - Patricia Field Costume Designer for Sex and the City & Harvey Burstein, Stephen Herbits, Jerry Chasen & Mark Kirby, Marc Levin, Sheldon & Myrna Palley, Rene T. Rodriguez, Mayda Perez & Simone Mayer, Jacques W. Soukup & Aaman R. Crane, Bruce Weber & Nan Bush Invite you to join them at this year's fabulous Opening Night Gala, sponsored by Design Center of the Americas (DCOTA) 6:00 PM Pre-screening reception at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts 174 East Flagler Street, downtown Miami, with champagne courtesy of Laurent Perrier and a sampling of delicious food. 7:30 PM Screening at the Gusman Center 9:30 PM Post-screening VIP dinner party with Sagitario star Eusebio Poncela and other special guests at the beautiful Intercontinental Hotel, 100 Chopin Way (off Biscayne Boulevard) in downtown Miami. Enjoy sophisticated company, gorgeous bayfront views, Latin fusion dance music of the LeSpam Allstars, delicious food from the exceptional catering staff of the Intercontinental and libations compliments of Southern Wine & Spirits.

The amiably mixed-up characters of Sagitario wander through the maze of Madrid's cobblestone streets, guided by forces far greater than their own lonely hearts, troubled minds, or aching libidos. They might not know it, but the stars (as in the constellations) are running their lives, day by delirious day, minute by quirky minute.

In the middle of it all are 40-something best friends Jaime and Rosa (Eusebio Poncela and Angela Molina, two veteran Spanish actors whose credits include Carne trémula, La ley del deseo and Martín Hache). Both were born under the sign of Sagittarius. He's gay and she's straight, but their lives run parallel: Rosa's a frustrated painter miserably divorced from an anthropologist "gone native" and Jaime's a struggling actor who's had it with his older Argentinian boyfriend.

Enter Rafa and Juan, two sexy young newcomers who steam up the screen. Rafa is a muscled rent-boy (advertising as Omar) who answers Jaime's late night call, screws his brains out, and promptly falls in love. The only hitch, to put it mildly, is Rafa's past membership in a scary doomsday sex-cult. Juan is a randy slacker who first meets Rosa delivering fast-food paella (what a great idea) to her door on a moped. Rosa finally listens to Andrónica, the local fortune teller, and agrees to a date, though she has a few more men to go through to find her prince. All around these four, getting yanked through life by their own impetuous astrological forces, is a robust and colorful ensemble made up of some delightfully recognizable names from Latin cinema, including Julieta Serrano (an Almodóvar favorite) and Mirtha Ibarra (the internationally acclaimed star of Cuban film).

Sagitariois a maturely nuanced saga of finding your place in the universe, especially for those in the know about Tarot and the Zodiac and all things strange and mystical. For the rest of us mere mortals it's an intelligently off-beat look at the search for love and happiness from first-time director and established novelist Vicente Molina Foix. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Director Vicente Molina Foix and actor Eusebio Poncela will attend the screening and discuss the film with the audience.

$150 Gala ticket includes reception, film screening and VIP dinner

$50 Ticket includes reception and film screening

$25 Film screening only

Limited ticket availability for reception and dinner - order now!

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