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TuRae Gordon returns to host 3rd Annual PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS
This year, PIFA received 115 submissions from more than 16 countries including: Canada, India, Italy, Morocco, the Philippines, Sweden, and Taiwan. Films are nominated for the following categories (click links to see nominees in each category and trailers):
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A Look at the 11th Annual Philadelphia Independent Film Festival (May 2-5, 2018)
Hatched in 2007 out of the MediaBureau.com film initiative, The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival has been holding its own among the plethora of film festivals we get to enjoy each year in Philly. #PIFF11...
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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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Leeway Foundation Screening: MAYA ANGELOU AND STILL I RISE
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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…
