✨🎭 Special Guest Spotlight: Michael Leon — Why the Drama? LIVE! 🎭✨ Why the Drama (WTD) returns May 9 at the El Oro Theater inside the Downtown Media Center. FilmGate Miami’s reimagined actor, writer, and industry meet-up — and Florida’s longest-running cold read event — is built to craft, critique, and expand the work coming from South Florida artists. 🎬📝 We’re excited to welcome Michael Leon as a special guest — a Miami-based writer-director whose work fuses retro horror, deadpan comedy, and pop-surreal spectacle into creature-led worlds you somehow want to visit. 🧟‍♂️✨ His shorts Stillborn and In the Dark are former FilmGate Best Short winners with 40+ festival awards between them, and his commercial work includes campaigns for Fireball Whisky, Mountain Dew, and 1/ST Racing. He’s currently developing a slate through his production company DuskHouse (repped by equals mgmt for commercials). This edition features bold new scripts across drama, sci-fi, and horror — brought to li...