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28th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival Coverage
October 17-27 by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Originally posted 10/31/19 Day 1 (10/17) #PFF28 The Festivities are in full swing Opening Night film #1 PARASITE fantastically nutz and at the same time a commentary on wealth disparities dir Bong Joon Ho pic.twitter.com/nv5QiRb4r9— Tinsel & Tine (@tinseltine) October 18, 2019 Opening Night Film JUST MERCY starring Michael B Jordan, Jamie Foxx Philadelphia Film Society bestowed the inaugural HUMANITARIAN AWARD TO BRYAN STEVENSON the subject of the film and the Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative. For 30 years Stevenson has made it his life’s work to exonerate innocent death row prisoners, try to eliminate excessive and unfair sentencing,…
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The 25th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival Coverage (October 20 – 30, 2016)
Tinsel & Tine’s Look at the 11 Days of #PFF25 By Editor, Le Anne LindsayPOST UPDATE: 10/30/2016 Click HERE for my Interview with Oscar Nominated Writer/Director DAMIEN CHAZELLE MINI REVIEWS & STUFF ON THE FILMS I SCREENED DURING #PFF25 10/20 Opening Night – I’m not going write about La La Land here because I was fortunate enough to have a sit down interview with the writer/director Damien Chazelle so that will be a separate post I’ll publish shortly before the movie musical hits theaters December 2nd. 10/21 Day 2 – I saw Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s first English language film JACKIE starring Natalie Portman the film is…
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qFLIX Philly LGBTQ 2016 Film Festival Coverage (Indie filmmaking)
PHILLY’S LGBTQ FILM FESTIVAL qFLIX Opens July 5 and runs to July 10, 2016 POST UPDATE: 7/11/16 I wish I could have gotten to a few more films and at least one or two events during the festival, but it came during a busy week personally. I did support the festival with many, many social media blasts throughout the 6 days. MY BELOW FESTIVAL COVERAGE INCLUDES: Nuttin’ But Love for the bio/doc WOMEN HE’S UNDRESSED Mini Review of HARA KIRI w/ Video Q&A of director Henry Alberto and actor Jesse Pimentel Mini Review of Opening Night Film PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW w/ Video Q&A of director J.C. Falcón & actor…
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Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival Gets FOODIE (Nov 13 – 22, 2014)
I’m still finished publishing my Part 2 & 3 of the Philadelphia Film Festival Recap, but I’m still gonna try to catch some of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival running November 12 -22, 2014 which is about celebrating and elevating the Asian American experience. Since 2008 PAAFF is proud to have presented dozens of culturally relevant films and exciting programming to broad and diverse audiences from Chinatown to Center City to University City. I’m particularly interested in their Foodie Film Series PAAFF EATS: Thurs 11/13 6:30pm – Documentary Program FAMILY INGREDIENTS – Join host Chef Ed Kenney as he travels the path of ancestors, from Hawaii to the homeland in…
