Philly Spotlight
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Tech & Art Blog Post: SUNDANCE INSTITUTE’S NEW FRONTIER DAY LAB
By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor The Sundance Institute is the arm of the Sundance Film Festival which invests and nurtures collaborations between artists, filmmakers, gamers, programmers, scientists, technologists and innovators to explore new forms of storytelling using new media and tech. For this one day Lab in Philadelphia, Sundance Institute invited several panelists to come and explain their work to us and what they’re trying to accomplish, most of the programs are societal in nature… For instance, Ashley Baccus-Clark (molecular biologist with Hyphen-Labs) was there to introduce the world of NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism, an art installation and virtual reality experience meant to address modern-day problems for women of color. The VR…
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CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHT: for Short Film SPINE By Rachel Mueller
If you are a Philly or Tri-State area filmmaker about to embark on a Crowdfunding Campaign and would like some additional FREE promotion via Tinsel & Tine and our social media platforms… email me: tinseltine@gmail.com Below post featured 6/1/17 – 7/1/17 CROWNFUNDING FEATURE: SPINE: A Short Film Philly Filmmakers – Temple Students SPINE offers a unique story that portrays the healing process of mental health. It is untraditional in a variety of ways, and portrays a well-rounded female protagonist. This representation is crucial in our society where at one point any medical problem a woman faced was “in her head.” Now when mental illness is gaining traction in media, it…
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Movie Blog Post: BRIGSBY BEAR, STEP, PATTI CAKE$
Not only am I equally impressed by each of these three films, each one had a Q&A in Philly! See Mini Reviews and Videos...
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Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect
I recommend seeing this Andrew Wyeth Retrospect at the Brandywine River Museum of Art which closes next weekend 9/17/17. I went the first week in July and kept meaning to post these pictures, but this entire summer has been more fleeting than any I remember. I only ever knew fragments about the entire clan of PA Wyeth painters, so it was interesting to find out more details. I never even knew how many of Andrew Wyeth subjects were people of color. But what fascinated me most was the affair he carried on for 15 years resulting in 240 paintings of Helga Testorf, a neighbor of Wyeth’s in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania…
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Movie Blog Post: GIRLS TRIP
Tinsel & Tine’s Look at GIRLS TRIP By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I first saw the trailer for Girls Trip back in like February or March and thought it looked pretty good and in addition to the known cast of Jada Pinkett Smith, Regina Hall and Queen Latifah, I saw it had the team of super producer Will Packer (THINK LIKE A MAN, Ride Along, ALMOST CHRISTMAS, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON and many more) and the talents of director Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man and THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY) but still I worried that the movie would fall flat, that it wouldn’t have cross over appeal both to other races…
