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Meet Me In Miami
''Meet Me in Miami'' is a 2005 New Zealand film directed by Eric Hannah and Iren Koster and starring Carlos Ponce, Tara Leniston, Eduardo Verastegui, and Ayşe Tezel. The film received positive reviews despite its limited release. Plot Luis was 12 when he met Julia. She was staying at the hotel with her family while on holiday, and when the two met, the connection was instant. They spent the summer together, laughing, playing and wishing it would never end. When it was finally time for Julia to return to her native New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ..., the two made a promise to meet back at the fountain the same time every year. Each year Luis waited, but no Julia. Now 10 years later, Luis finally decides it's time to put destiny to the test. Draggi ...
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Carlos Ponce
Carlos Armando Ponce Freyre Jr. (born September 4, 1972) is a Puerto Rican actor, musician, model, and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce continued to expand his acting career by participating in various American television series. He did not limit himself solely to a career in television. Ponce, who is also a singer, is also active in the American movie industry as a character actor. In film, he played Salvadore in ''Couples Retreat'', Matthew Wright in ''Spy'' and Rodrigo in '' Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo''. In television, he played Felix Gonzalez in ''Cristela'', Max Duran in '' Hollywood Heights'', as well as voicing Santiago Santos in ''Maya & Miguel''. Early life Ponce was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. His parents, Carlos Ponce Sr. and Esther Freyre, emigrated from Cuba after the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro. After his birth, the family moved to Humacao, where Po ...
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Eduardo Verástegui
José Eduardo Verástegui Córdoba (; born May 21, 1974) is a Mexican producer and actor. He was part of band Kairo and later a solo music career, before he started appearing in Mexican telenovelas and eventually feature films like ''Chasing Papi'', ''Bella'', and ''Little Boy'', the latter two produced by his own production company, Metanoia. Early life Verástegui was born in Xicoténcatl, Tamaulipas, Mexico. He was raised in a practicing Catholic family. Career After finding success as a musical entertainer, and then as a soap opera star, he decided to pursue a career in Hollywood. In 2002, before filming commenced on ''Chasing Papi'', Verástegui took voice-coaching lessons to improve his English pronunciation. The coach was a committed Catholic, and in the course of their conversations Verástegui re-discovered his faith and resolved to change his lifestyle. He also declared that he had decided to turn down offers to play roles in films that conflicted with his Catholic ...
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Tara Leniston
Tara Louise Leniston (born 1 May 1983) is an Irish actress. She was born in England, grew up in County Clare, Ireland and has also lived in Korea, Sweden, and Hong Kong. She travelled abroad with her father Greg, who was a senior manager with Baltimore Technologies.Gonna be huge: Tara Leniston
''Irish Independent'', 20 January 2008
In 1995, Leniston started her acting career while living in Seoul, appearing in ''Whats up Doogie'', a Korean kids TV program. A year later, the family moved to , where Leniston attended



Ayşe Tezel
Ayşe Tezel (born 19 September 1980) is a British Turk actress who made her debut in two episodes of the New Zealand television show ''Shortland Street'' in April 2002. She has acted in a number of television series and feature films shot in New Zealand and Australia, where she may be best known for her roles in '' Meet Me in Miami'' (2005) and ''Court of Lonely Royals'' (2007). After a seven-year absence from film and television, she appeared in two episodes of ''Shortland Street'' in July 2021, as a different character from her 2002 appearance. Biography Tezel was born in London. She took her first ballet lesson when she was three years old and enrolled at repertory theatre when she was eight. {{{citation needed span, date=November 2021, Tezel relocated to Sydney, Australia in 2004 and landed leading roles in the feature films '' Gene-X'' and ''Court of Lonely Royals''. {{citation needed span, date=November 2021, She has since returned to London to study Method Acting and ...
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Eduardo Verastegui
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New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ...
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Castulo Guerra
Castulo (Latin: ''Castulo''; Iberian: ''Kastilo'') was an Iberian town and bishopric (now Latin titular see located in the Andalusian province of Jaén, in south-central Spain, near modern Linares. History Evidence of human presence since the Neolithic period has been found there. It was the seat of the Oretani, an Iberian tribe which settled in the vicinity in the north of the Guadalquivir River beginning in the sixth century BC. According to tradition, a local princess named Himilce married Hannibal, gained the alliance of the city with the Carthaginian Empire. In 211 BC, Castulo was the site of Hasdrubal Barca's crushing victory over the Roman army with a force of roughly 40,000 Carthaginian troops plus local Iberian mercenaries. Thereafter the Romans made a pact with the residents of city — who then betrayed the Carthaginians — and they became foederati (allied people) of Rome. According to Livy, the inhabitants of Castulo were intimidated by Scipio Africanu ...
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Richard Yniguez
Richard Yniguez (born December 8, 1946) is an American actor and director mainly known for ''Boulevard Nights'', ''What's Cooking?'' and ''The Deadly Tower ''The Deadly Tower'' (also known as ''Sniper'') is a 1975 American made-for-television action drama thriller film directed by Jerry Jameson. It stars Kurt Russell and Richard Yniguez and is based on the University of Texas tower shooting. Plot Th ...''. Film Television References Demetria Fulton previewed Richard Yniguez in Barnaby Jones; episode titled, "Murder Go-Round" (04/15/1973). External links * 1946 births Living people American male actors of Mexican descent {{US-screen-actor-1940s-stub ...
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Kamala Lopez
Kamala Lopez is an American filmmaker, actress, writer, director, and political activist. She has had starring roles in '' Black Jesus'', ''Medium'', ''24'', ''Alias'', ''NYPD Blue'', ''Hill Street Blues'', ''Miami Vice'', and ''21 Jump Street''. She has been a featured actress in films including '' Born in East L.A.'', ''Deep Cover'', '' The Burning Season'', ''Clear and Present Danger'', ''Lightning Jack'', and ''I Heart Huckabees''. As a filmmaker, her feature film debut, ''A Single Woman'', about the life of first US Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, won the 2009 Exceptional Merit in Media Award from the National Women's Political Caucus. In 2013, her short Spanish-language film ''Ese Beso'' won the Jury Award at the Senorita Cinema Festival and the Audience Award at the Boyle Heights Latina Film Festival. In 2016, her follow-up feature, the documentary ''Equal Means Equal'', won Best U.S. Documentary (Audience Award) at Michael Moores TCF Festival, and was a ''New York Times' ...
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Sarah Thomson (actress)
Sarah Thomson (born 17 June 1985) is a New Zealand actress, known for playing roles in two series of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, and for her role in New Zealand's longest running soap opera, ''Shortland Street''. Career After high school at Glendowie College in Auckland, Thomson moved to Christchurch to film the first sections of the troubled American feature called '' Meet Me in Miami'' (then titled ''My Gardener''). Thomson was discouraged from acting by her experiences and returned to her hometown of Auckland to focus on friends and family. Drawn back to stage, she ended up performing outdoor Shakespeare, as part of the University of Auckland's long-running ''Summer Shakespeare'' tradition. She was not a student at this time, but later enrolled to study Film, Television, Media Studies and Theatre Studies. During this time, she filmed her role in '' Living the Dream'', sat on the board of the University Theatre Company and wrote for the University's weekly student publi ...
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2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ...
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New Zealand Comedy Films
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