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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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What’s Wrong with SXSW on Amazon Prime?
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I was excited to hear that the Free Online SXSW (South By Southwest) Film Festival on Amazon Prime was going forward April 27–May 6. But it seems a good number of films that would have screened at SXSW, prior to COVID-19 cancelling the high profile festival, are not interested in participating. The filmmakers fear it will ruin their chances at distribution deals, as Amazon Prime is not offering to buy each film, just allow them to be shown for a very limited time on their streaming platform. Also, even if theaters remain close for the time being, many filmmakers are still hoping for a theatrical…
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Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival Postponed Due to COVID-19
Tinsel & Tine #PhillyCalendar highlight change your @PhilEnvFilmFest save the date to Sept. 23-27, 2020https://t.co/7yJDOBmZsf#PHEFF https://t.co/x4HKxbIEb1 pic.twitter.com/k1t1sHwxP5 — Tinsel & Tine (@tinseltine) March 10, 2020 Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival “We regret to announce that due to the concerns surrounding COVID-19, the Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival is postponing its annual Festival at The Academy of Natural Sciences until September 23-27, 2020. For the safety of our audience, volunteers, partners and filmmakers, we have decided that this is the wisest course of action.Festival tickets and passes purchased for April will be honored at the rescheduled September event. We look forward to sharing the line-up of exceptional films in a few months! Subscribe…
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DOWNHILL (Sundance 2020 Premiere)
Is Downhill as good as the original? No, of course not. Although, I do remember there being a number of unnecessarily slow, extraneous scenes in “Force Majeure”, so co-directors and writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (Academy Award winners for The Descendants which they co-wrote with Alexander Payne) do create a tighter script in “Downhill”; yet the movie is also missing some of the subtleties of things farther under the surface, which foreign films seem to capture so well.
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THE GO-GO’S (Sundance 2020 Premiere)
Director Alison Ellwood handles the interviews, pacing, images, 80s nostalgia deftly, but she doesn’t reinvent the wheel. There’s a standard template for rock-band disintegration and the Go-Go’s story fits within a basic music-doc rulebook, but that makes it no less fun. There’s nothing I love better than a tale of rising beyond one’s wildest dreams, peaking, then taking that terrible tumble, only to learn lessons and find your footing again.
