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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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BlackStar Film Festival Aug 1-4, 2024 – Coverage
13th Annual BlackStar Coverage 2024. It was great in my neighborhood of West Philly for years, but when BSFF moved into Center City last year, I think I like it better. It just gives it more of a big festival shine. And the Kimmel Center is a sweet hangout spot in between screenings...
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5 Questions for Filmmakers Alexis Neophytides and Andres “Jay” Molina – FIRE THROUGH DRY GRASS
But instead of history repeating itself on this tiny island with a dark history of institutional neglect and abandonment, Fire Through Dry Grass shows these disabled Black and Brown artists refusing to be abused, confined, erased.
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11th Annual BlackStar Film Festival Coverage
August 3-7, 2022BlackStar Film Festival is celebrating it's 11th year with both in-person screening and events and many virtual screenings and panels. Check out the line up and return for my roundup coverage..
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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…
