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26th Annual PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL Coverage
I'm so glad this film completed my screenings at the 26th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival, as it ended things on a high note. Sammy Davis Jr: I Gotta Be Me is part of the PBS American Masters series and is marvelously put together. I highly recommend it for anyone who really loves the nostalgia of show biz and what it truly means to be a performer...
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Interview with PHILADELPHIA ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL Director ROB BUSCHER
Tinsel & Tine’s Look at : the 10th Annual PHILADELPHIA ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL PAAFF Conference By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor POST UPDATE 11/12/17 ORIGINAL POST 11/4/17 Philadelphia Asian American Film & Filmmakers is a volunteer run nonprofit organization founded in 2008 to educate and expose the Philadelphia region to films by and about Asian Americans through year round events, primarily the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF17) November 9-19, 2017. This year’s Festival highlights the long but largely unheralded history of Asian Americans in the film industry; beginning with the opening night film, a screening of the rarely seen and recently restored silent film The Dragon Painter (1919), starring…
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Film Festival Coverage: 20th Annual FIRSTGLANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Tinsel & Tine’s Look at : The 20th Annual FIRSTGLANCE Film Festival By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor POST UPDATE: 10/9/17 I was able to attend Opening Night and 2 blocks of screenings on Sunday. The below embeds are mini movie reviews & photos from opening night. Below that, video of FirstGlance’s Awards Ceremony – Congrats to all the winning filmmakers! Below that, the festival continues online with IT’SASHORT over 40 short films are available to watch for FREE for 4 week (Oct 9 – Nov 11, 2017) vote for your favorites, which then have a chance of premiering at FirstGlance Los Angeles in Spring 2018. FIRSTGLANCE AWARDS CEREMONY Thank…
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Tinsel & Tine Film Festival Coverage: 1st Annual PHILADELPHIA ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
Philadelphia Environmental Film FestApril 21-23, 2017 The inaugural Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival will showcase dozens of entertaining and powerful new international and regional shorts and features that celebrate natural beauty and raise awareness about our impact on the earth. Come out and be inspired, vote for your favorite films, and participate in evening Q&A with the filmmakers Tinsel & Tine’s mini interview withExecutive Director, Debra Wolf Goldstein andArtistic Director Alexandra Drobac Diagne T&T: “What do each of them fear most when it comes to the current Administration’s views on Climate Change and the EPA. And in what ways do they hope the festival will make an…
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Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival November 10-20, 2016
Highlighting 10 Day Film Festival #PAAFF By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay Wishing THE PHILADELPHIA ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL @PAAFF an Awesome Opening & Nov 10-20 fest #PAAFF – https://t.co/mMz0Eg7oCN pic.twitter.com/xFhifbAH0D — Tinsel & Tine (@tinseltine) November 10, 2016 The 9th Annual Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival is Philly’s home to the best films by and about Asian Americans. It gets underway on November 10, 2016 with opening film THE TIGER HUNTER (International House) by Lena Khan 2016 (Comedy/Narrative) Danny Pudi (NBCs Community) stars as Sami Malik, a young Indian man who immigrates to 1970s Chicago to become an engineer at a top firm. When his job falls…