Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival

4-day Film Festival September 21-24, 2022 at the Theatre Exile in South Philly

Acclaimed ‘DIY Festival’ is Set to Screen Highly Anticipated Features and Shorts, in Addition to Celebrating 25 Years of “Perfect Blue” The Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (PUFF) will return to local South Philadelphia playhouse Theatre Exile (1340S 13th St) for its seventh year, bringing with it an exciting program that will open with a rare 25th anniversary screening of Satoshi Kon’s “Perfect Blue” (1997) at 8pm on Wednesday, September 21st.

Films will screen through Saturday, September 24th, and will include several centerpiece feature films in addition to PUFF’s signature Bizarre, International, Local, and Horror short blocks. Special filmmaker guests and Q&As are expected to take place following select screenings. All-access badges – priced at $80 – are on sale now at FilmFreeway; fans can buy individual tickets to Wednesday’s special event for $10.

Highlight features at PUFF7 include “The Alien Report” (Thu. 9/22), a kaleidoscopic sci-fi project shot on micro cameras sure to engage the ufology buff, the coming-of-age dramedy “Chicken House” (Fri. 9/23), quirky indie music documentary “Party Dream” (Thu. 9/22), brutal and unflinching rampage thriller “Cockazoid” (Sat. 9/24), matriarchal horror tale “Two Witches” (Sat. 9/24) and the hotly anticipated gross-out horror release “All Jacked Up and Full of Worms” (Sat. 9/24).

“Theatre Exile has graciously welcomed us back to their fantastic space, and the PUFF team couldn’t be more excited about our seventh year,” said festival director William Keiper. “We received such a wide range of quality feature submissions this year, and the program we’ve built for 2022 is going to be hugely engaging for our audiences. The response we’ve had so far to our opening night event has been great – we’re really looking forward to featuring ‘Perfect Blue’ on the big screen in its uncut form.”

For seven years, PUFF has been a leading independent film festival in the city of Philadelphia, and was founded (and is operated) by disabled artists as an alternative festival to bring new and undiscovered films to cinema fans in the region. PUFF works to connect upstart filmmakers with distribution outlets by working with local independent film distributors, and to offer a place for filmmakers to gain exposure and network with as many industry professionals as
possible.