Film Festivals Archives
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35th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival Coverage
My coverage of the 35th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival (#PFF35) spanning from October 15 thru October 25, 2026 ...
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FILM SCRIBES PODCAST
As a member of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, I join in on our monthly Podcast, FILM SCRIBES. I really should do it more often cause it's fun hashing out our opinions of recent flicks!
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34th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival Coverage
My coverage of the 34th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival (#PFF34) spanning from October 16 thru October 26, 2025 ...
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BlackStar Film Festival Coverage July 31- Aug 3, 2025
The 14th Annual BlackStar Film Festival held in Center City Philadelphia, once again checked all the boxes of a successful fest. The close proximity of the venues (Kimmel Center, Wilma Theater and Suzanne Roberts Theater) are ideal, particularly, I would imagine for travelers from other cities and countries. The theme this year was Cinema for Liberation...
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PHLAFF -Mexican Filmmaker Carlos Meléndez
The PHILADELPHIA LATINO ARTS & FILM FESTIVAL produces events and screenings from May 25 – July 6, 2025. Sadly, I only managed to get to one event, and missed the intended screening entirely. I wasn’t aware there were two PHLAFF rooms at Fleisher Art Memorial going on at the same time, one upstairs and one downstairs. By the time I asked someone when would Meléndez horror shorts play? I had missed them screening upstairs. But I got there in time to hear his Talkback moderated by my new friend, Erick Barragán Ramírez of CINEPAMINA. Click Image to hear excerpts…
