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THE INTERNATIONAL OCEAN FILM TOUR Sails into Philadelphia for One Night Only
The International Ocean Film Tour is not a film festival per se, but it is presented in conjunction with the organizers of last spring's Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival. Philly Film-goers come out on December 1, 2017 to the URBN Annex Screening Room (Drexel Campus) to experience a thrilling lineup of the very best in ocean adventures and environmental documentaries...
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The Happy Sad – LeRoy McClain Interview
So here’s yet another coincidence, I saw the film The Happy Sad during QFEST (Philly’s LGBT film festival) and went to the after party, where I talked to one of the stars of the movie LeRoy McClain. I remember thinking, I should be interviewing him, but it’s too loud in here and I’m sure he just wants to chill right now. I started to give him my card and ask him to contact me later for an interview, but I let the moment pass. Skip to a month later, my sister Lauren who’s a Media & Cultural Trend Analyst (see website), happens to socially meet Timothy Yates who runs public…
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Philly Film Fest Highlight: QFEST July 11-22, 2013
More summer film festivals in Philly! As AwesomeFest continues, and on the heels of The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival comes the 19th Annual leading LGBT film fest – QFEST With 108 films that include 46 feature films, 23 documentaries, and 39 shorts films, as well as 3 World Premieres, 4 East Coast Premieres and over 50 Philadelphia Premieres, QFest is showcasing the absolute best in LGBT cinema. As has become tradition for the festival, QFest will be also offering up films that touch on several hot button topics facing the LGBT community, immigration, sexual identity, addiction, and marriage equality. “While not prone to hyperbole, I have to say that this…
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XPN / PFS Music Film Festival Round Up
On Thursday April 26 The Inaugural XPN Music Film Festival, produced by The Philadelphia Film Society got underway at the Annenberg Center in University City, Philadelphia. For anyone unfamiliar with XPN: WXPN, is a nationally recognized leader in Triple A radio and the premier guide for discovering new and significant artists in rock, blues, roots, and folk, is the non-commercial, member-supported radio service of the University of Pennsylvania. WXPN produces World Cafe, public radio’s most popular program of popular music hosted by David Dye and syndicated by NPR, The opening night film was a concert tour documentary called Big Easy Express. The film’s upbeat opening credits, took on a look…
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The Birth Tinsel & Tine!
I’d like to thank all my friends and family who were with me during the labor pains of birthing a new name for my blog. I was given some good suggestions: “Film Bites”, “Restaurant and Reels”, “Dip My Toe”, “Cinema Gastronomique”, “Cineatsta”,”Hungry Eyes” and a few others. I actually only got two enthusiastic responses to Tinsel & Tine, so I was going to go with majority rules and set about buying the domain filmbites.net, but at the checkout, I changed my mind; it just didn’t seem to have any ME in it. And blogging is all about the blogger, it’s a very narcissistic endeavor; I think that’s why there are…
