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Screening: Let the Truth be Told. #UFF #PUFF #piff2011 #

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Lurking beneath the depths of every government conspiracy is a plot hatched by someone. This plot may lay in fact or fiction. At times it contained both. You can never be sure.

When the film we are about to screen was left for us, we initially were told not to screen it. We were told that the material was to much about the truth and that the the truth be told, the world would quake. What we are about to see is has never been publicly screened before.

Let the Truth be told.

... Philadelphia Independent Film Festival

Update: Cropsey - Screening at #PUFF ... Feb 5th & 6th - 2010

The screenings have begun. Please note this is a Documentary but some think it is a horror movie ... none the less, this is not suitable for children.... Thanks so much for the support! See you at the theatre ...

CROPSEY - Doc (RT :84min)
Fri: 02/05/2010 - 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm, 10pm, & Midnight
Sat: 02/06/2010 - 2pm, 4...


Director Joshua Zeman (The Station Agent, Mysterious Skin) just gave a talk on the movie. We'll be having a Q&A after the screening. Please note: The 10:00 screening has been moved to 10:15 tonight.


Thank you!

Blog is now inactive... for now. ;)

Hello,
As the founder and original Festival Director at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival (2008) I want to thank all of the Film Makers, everybody who participated, and all who gave their time. When I conceived the idea and wrote the mantra as to why this festival was starting up and what it hoped to do, it was a sincere attempt at connecting to the heart of the film world - the Independent Film Maker.

Best of luck to the new Festival Directors and the 2009 team. I'll be back ;)


Benjamin Barnett
Festival Director, Founder
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival
2007-2008


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Philadelphia Independent Film Festival / June 25 - 28, 2009 ... roger that ,,,

Hello everybody,

Thank you to all that have been stopping by the Studio, calling, emailing, etc. to talk about the Festival. It has been a great experience hearing from everybody and we look forward to continuing the discussions on Monday evenings at the freeRADlab cafe. We are working on getting the discussion groups together now. Screenings began in September! Stop by and support fellow Film Makers and the Philadelphia Independent Film festival if you are in Philadelphia. Free Coffee/Tea ... Mondays, 8pm-12am EST. $5.

We have been hard at work putting the next Festival together and have begun to officially screen movies for June 2009. This is by far the best part of the festival. We plan to vBlog this as we go ... We hope to screen over 800 movies this year! PLEASE try and send them in early! We are working on the New Festival website now. We'll have updates and a launch by Nov 13th. Nov 26 is the official opening of submissions. BUT, if you feel it is ready and want to send it over now, please do. Check out http://PhiladelphiaIndependentFilmFestival.com for more information.

The Festival Blog is churning and we welcome your input. We will also Blog again on Withoutabox.com and are looking for Pre and Post Festival Bloggers. If you want to Blog for the festival or provide reviews of movies, get in touch and ask for myself or Richard Weissman...

Sign up for our RSS feed for Festival updates as they happen ... The studios are open 7 days a week.

See you soon,
Benjamin Barnett
Festival Director

Movie Reviews: 2008 Film Festival

Hello,
Periodically we will post reviews and discussions about certain movies that were screened at the Festival this year. IF you have suggestions, comments or reviews, please post them here.

Don't forget, next years Festival is scheduled for June 25 - 28th, 2009.

Submissions begin October, 2008.


Thank You,
Benjamin Barnett
Festival Director

Philadelphia Independent Film Reaches Cruising Altitude

June 28th, 2008 Philadelphia, PA: Since Thursday the Northern Liberties neighborhood in Philadelphia has added to the heat as the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival’s much anticipated lift off has achieved cruising altitude.

Extolling the virtues and defining the requirements of the authentic Philadelphia cheesesteak, “This is My Cheesesteak” launched viewings at the Media Bureau venue. At the same time, 3 blocks away, “Flowers for Rwanda” suppressed the people’s appetite with a thoughtful challenge to respond to global culture’s failure to prevent genocide. An hour later, 941 Theatre presented “Over the River,” a child-centered view of the Civil War and its aftermath.

“Green Guerrillas” followed "This is My Cheese Steak" with a sizable entourage. There was a fascinating convergence of this organic lifestylist movement and the political-corporate community with the generous sponsorship by SEPTA of the film festival and its inclusion in the program schedule of a new ad campaign connecting bus ridership to green as a “rallying cry to promote environmental consciousness.”

At Media Bureau, “Ode to Peace” presented a patriotic sideshow of close-up trauma inflicted on American soldiers in the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Other excellent activizing films included “Killer at Large” and “At Home in Utopia.” The first did an amazing job of linking obesity, the energy crisis, corn sweetener, and agricultural exports to the obesity epidemic which it covered at a graphic fine-grain level that included live footage of a liposuction procedure and its byproducts. General Hospital never showed it like this. The film on utopia was an awe-inspiring look back at the history of Jewish Radicalism in America that was crucial to understanding the power, beauty, and foibles of this unique American heritage.

Meanwhile, at Media Bureau’s FreeRadLab Café, film makers, festival organizers, industry experts, and neighborhood citizens rapped past and current film making experiences, plans, local film industry economics, success tips, and the extension of films into cinematically-inspired politics. Obama’s campaign sent in an activist organizer while McCain’s office appeared to be stuck in Harrisburg. Nonetheless, a McCain supporter promised to enliven the continuing free-rad lab discussions of the relationship between film making and current socio-political concerns.

All in all, 19 movies were shown on Thursday and 56 on Friday. Today the festival is projected to show 40 and 38 tomorrow. More film- and freeradlab-inspired comments to follow.