Film Festival Coverage
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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…
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Sundance 2025 Film Festival Coverage
Sundance in-person runs Jan. 23- Feb 2. Virtual Sundance started Jan 29th. Still, it's a great way to start my film/movie year off on a good foot!
