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22nd Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival in Philly
And 2nd Anniversary for The Madlab Post Screening Shorts at BOK Building Audiences in over 400 Cities Spanning 6 Continents are Uniting for One Week for One Reason…to Judge the Ten Finalists in the 22nd Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival. This global festival begins Thursday 9/26 at 6:30PM with a celebration reception at The Madlab Post’s studio BOK Building (1901 S. 9th Street Room 411 Phila, PA 19148) Daily showtimes follow including Mondays – Fridays 9/27 through 10/4 at 2PM, two shows on Saturdays 9/28 – 10/5 at 1PM and 6:30PM, and Sundays 9/29 – 10/6 at 4PM MANHATTAN SHORT is the only event of its kind. The films screen…
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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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Mini Philly Film Festival RECAPS: Moore College Women Artists FF & Philadelphia Jewish FF CineMondays
Early Spring Round Up of 3 Documentaries Screened in Philadelphia By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne LIndsay Moore College of Art & Design (20th & Ben Franklin Parkway) the first women’s art school in the United States, held a mini film festival Friday, April 1-3, 2016 in celebration of women documentary filmmakers and women artists. I was only able to attend on Saturday, and saw 4 wonderful films, but these were the two that resonated with me: Guerrillas In Our Midst (1992) by Amy Harrison about the Guerilla Girls an anonymous group of Women’s art activists who started in 1985 to call attention to the large disparity between the…
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Nora Gibson Contemporary Ballet Presents: 2016 Philadelphia Screendance Festival
Don’t Miss This “Dance-For-Camera” Film Festival February 16-21, 2016 A Philly based dancer and fellow blogger (Click Go Review) Emma MacDonald, let me know about this upcoming film and dance fusion, 6 day festival happening this month. I’m planning to cover a couple days for T&T, be sure to start following Tinsel & Tine on Periscope @tinseltine and Instagram @tinsel_tine for Live Coverage! Post Update 2/17/16: I attended last night and we did hold an impromptu Q&A after the screenings, but I forgot to Periscope it! Here’s a picture of two of the filmmakers in attendance with Nora center lft: Zornitsa Stoyanova “Chrysalis” (Philadelphia, PA) rt. Ashley Marinelli “Rorschach” (Brooklyn,…
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CouchFest is now a part of SHNIT Short Film Fest (Philly Oct 17, 2015)
Shnit is a 12-day celebration of short film, hosted simultaneously in multiple cities around the world as shnit Playgrounds & shnit Cinemas. Last year Tinsel & Tine covered Couch Fest Shorts Film Festival hosted by The MadLap Post This year, Couch Fest became a part of shnit, allowing more communities to have access to exceptional films. Nicole Ayers of Madlab will once again host the screenings in the Philly area. Background: What started as a local initiative in Bern Switzerland is now an exceptional transnational event that connects and inspires makers and fans of short films across the globe, ending in the star-studded New York Finale. Shnit embraces diversity, originality…