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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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5 Questions for BlackStar Film Festival Filmmakers 2020
Le Anne Lindsay, Editor The 9th Annual BlackStar Film Festival (Virtual year) runs Thursday, August 20 – 26, 2020. For more of what’s in store click HERE Tinsel & Tine started a 5 Questions Series a couple years ago as a great way to highlight and get to know some of the filmmakers screening their Shorts during various Film Festivals in Philly. It later expanded to include actors. What I love about these interviews is how different and revealing each person’s responses are to the same questions. As you’ll see below: Jump to: A Storybook Ending As Above Behind The Mask Black Boy Joy Broken Bird By Way of Canarsie…
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BLACKSTAR Film Festival Interviews with Filmmakers 2018
The 7th Annual BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia gets underway shortly (August 2-4, 2018) for a fun highlight of the festival, I asked several of the filmmakers screening short films to answer the same 5 Questions. Check out their enlightening answers.
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BlackStar Film Festival Coverage August 4-7, 2016
Coverage of BSFF16
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Highlight: American Promise
Have you heard about this doc – AMERICAN PROMISE ? It’s an emotional tale about race, class and the exclusive struggles that black boys in America must endure when attempting to achieve academically. The film intimately chronicles the lives of Idris Brewster and Seun Summers, a pair of middle-class African-American male students trying to navigate one of the nation’s most prestigious schools from kindergarten to graduation. Storytellers (parents) Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson, both first generation college graduates, have been traveling the country speaking about the labor of love that won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award in 2013 at the Sundance Film Festival. “We both have come to understand…
