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SIFTMedia 215 MEMBER’S UPDATES (Black & Latinx Women Filmmakers Collective of Philadelphia)
SIFTMedia 215 is a support system of several independent media artists who work in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and provide a community of support for socially conscious women identified filmmakers. Our goal at SIFTMedia is to amplify the work and create opportunities for Black and Latinx Women content creators.
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BRIDGERTON REVERIE
I binged the series this past weekend and I’m still having a weird sense of PTSD from it. Don’t get me wrong, I delighted in the frothy, regency, costumed, romantic fun of it all. And reveled in everything Simon (Regé-Jean Page) I can just picture the casting call sheet: Looking for a gorgeous, black, rakish, imperious, charmer with a great butt. Boy! did they find their man 😍
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BlackStar William and Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar
3 Day Filmmaker Seminar There will also be opportunities for filmmakers to share and receive feedback on works-in-progress, meet media funders and other gatekeepers, and explore new storytelling models emerging through the use of virtual reality, augmented reality, and transmedia projects. Our environment considers the intersection of cinema and visual arts, and is exclusively designed for people of color to focus and not manage the added burden of representation.
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One Night in Miami w/Q&A
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI is officially my choice for Best Film of 2020! Here you have four men of iconic status, all hanging out together on a historic night (February 25, 1964) the night Clay took the title from Sonny Liston; and yet this is not common knowledge? I hate to say it, but say Joe Namath, Rocky Marciano, Bob Dillon and Henry Kissinger all hung out one night, there wouldn’t be a person alive or dead that wouldn’t know everything about it.
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Pieces Of A Woman Q&A
Synopsis: Martha (Vanessa Kirby) and Sean (Shia LaBeouf) are a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably when a home birth ends in unimaginable tragedy. Thus begins a yearlong odyssey for Martha, who must navigate her grief while working through fractious relationships with Sean and her domineering mother (Ellen Burstyn)
