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5 QUESTIONS FOR FILMMAKER LESLIE RIVERA ————— Papi Ramirez vs Giant Scorpions
Tinsel & Tine's 5 Questions Series continues with an old friend, Leslie Rivera, Les and I met at a screenwriting class, at the University of the Arts, a ways back, I'm not gonna say how long. We reconnected in the last 2 or 3 years on social media. Les is a Puerto Rico born writer/director/producer who has, since we met, made a number of low budget independent short films and documentaries,
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COVID-19 Interview Benjamin F. Barnett Digital Media Strategist & PIFF Founder
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Benjamin F. Barnett is a digital media strategist who first founded The Media Bureau Inc in Philadelphia in the late 90’s as a place where tech entrepreneurs, and artists could come together to create, produce & screen original Digital Media Content. It was a community driven project that was the jumping off of a number of other projects including The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, founded by Ben and now in its 13th year; or would have been had COVID-19 not struck. I met Ben probably in the Festival’s 3rd or 4th year, and enjoy covering it annually (click to see #PIFF2019). In return Ben’s been…
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5 QUESTIONS for Filmmaker: STORM SAULTER
SPRINTER is the Winner of the Best Feature Film, Best Director, and Audience Award at 2018’s American Black Film Festival, Jury Winner for Best Narrative Feature at the 2019 Pan African Film Festival, and is a feature narrative screening at Philadelphia's BlackStar Film Festival
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TEDDY PENDERGRASS: IF YOU DON’T KNOW ME Interview with director Olivia Lichtenstein
TEDDY PENDERGRASS: IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME was the Closing Night film at the 27th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival – a documentary detailing the extraordinary life and career of Philly’s own Teddy Pendergrass. The night before I got a chance to chat with the director Olivia Lichtenstein and producer Nick Bedu about the making of the doc., how much time they spent in Philly, the darker side of Teddy, the music, the tragedy and the come back of this sexy and soulful entertainer gone too soon.
