Spielman's work also will be displayed in the exhibition Charlie and Friends at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in the Lee Wagener Art Gallery at Terminal 2, departure level. The exhibition, which consists of large chromatic gray paintings and smaller dog portraits, runs through Sept. 12.

MIAMI STORIES

If you want Miami stories told on the silver screen, then you may need Miami screenwriters to create them.

That's the driving principle behind the Entertainment Industry Incubator's Miami Filmmaker Project, a program for media artists based in South Florida and anchored by a series of workshops.

Feature projects and the writers selected for the 2009 Screenwriters Lab include:

All-American ( Lolita Stewart-White) -- A competitive sprinter struggles to come to terms with his Haitian roots.

Born & Raised ( Nicholas Loritsch) -- A young man in the blue-collar South finds his way with the help of his well-traveled outlaw of a grandfather and the multicultural community of family and friends that surrounds them.

Crossing Paths ( David Nguah) -- A woman survives the Holocaust and moves to Miami Beach where she experiences love and racial bigotry.

Devil's Opus ( Rolando Vinas) -- A teen musical prodigy discovers he is a clone of Beethoven and battles his contemporaries for the love of a girl.

Loss of Innocence ( Eric Gaunaurd) -- As a Cuban family makes the difficult decision to send their children alone to the United States during the Communist revolution, they struggle to overcome insurmountable obstacles to escape the island and reunite with their children.

The Screenwriters Lab is divided into two segments: First, scripts are critiqued and rewritten; next, they are polished and prepared for finding partners for producing, directing and investment.

Info: www.eincubator.org or 305-672-9297.

-- DANIEL CHANG

NOTABLES: The ground-breaking installation No Ghost Just A Shell, donated jointly to the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami and the Tate Modern in London by Miami collectors Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz, is on view for the first time at the Tate and will be there for a year.

Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Miami playwright whose ''Brother/Sister Plays'' trilogy is currently running at the Tony Award-winning McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J., will receive The New York Times' inaugural Outstanding Playwright Award in a ceremony at the newspaper's Manhattan headquarters on Wednesday.

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