Norton Museum of Art and Afflux Studios at G-Star Studios will be presenting the Subtropic Film Festival in West Palm Beach on November 7-9, 2025. This will be a weekend of independent films from South Florida, art, workshops and more.
The festival opens with a red carpet on Friday, November 7, at Norton presented by the Museum's Art After Dark series. The opening night documentary Python Hunt is about the Everglades and chasing down snakes in the pitch dark. The director of the film Xander Robin is bringing awareness of the environmental urgency through the eyes of the snake hunters. Local artists will have their work on display that night as well that was inspired by the marshes of South Florida.
"I think of our local film scene the way a lot of people might think of our Everglades," says festival director Noelia Solange Rabino, "A lot of people see it as a harsh environment, but once you're fully immersed, you really start to understand how diverse and incredibly unique it is, like nowhere else on Earth."
Saturday, November 8, director Sasha Wortzel's film River of Grass will screen. The film will show the region's beauty, history and ecological challenges.
Simultaneously on Saturday at Afflux Studios at G-Star Studios in Palm Springs, the audience will have the opportunity to watch films, attend workshops and network in a place where films are made. In a hands-on workshop, participants will shoot their own footage guided by filmmaking experts. Learning analog film processing with Kodak, Cinema Video Tech and Throwbacks will be part of the process.
On Sunday, South Florida PBS will present Flip The Script program, highlighting young filmmaker voices from local high schools. The festival has the goal of bringing Miami audiences and filmmakers to Palm Beach and Palm Beach makers getting to collaborate with Miami. This will in turn grow both communities is the idea.
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