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Fest fans - W have some big news coming down the pike and are looking forward to sharing. Aside from working on a cross country tour of Stephon "Stix" Josey's film "Angel's Around Me" which includes a stop at the world famous

Grauman's Chinese Theatre - Hollywood,

we are about to embark on building our new studio. We are very excited about this and are sure you will be as well. :)

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Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 2012 Laurel

Official Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 2012 Laurel

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 5 - Festival Winners 2012

Best Feature:

1^st - Things I Don’t Understand Director - Director:  David Spaltro

2^nd - Maybe Tomorrow – Director: Michael Wolfe

Honorable Mention – Santiago - Director: Felix Martinez

Best First Time Director (Feature)

Angels Around Me – Director: Stephen “Stix” Josey

Best Short:

1^st – Organized Criminal – Director: George Santini

Honorable Mention – Nausea – Director: Jeff Curren

Best Local Feature:

1^st – Benny the Bum – Director: Paul and Dan Cantagallo

Honorable Mention – The Descending – Director: Kyle Thompson

Best Local Short:

1^st - Welcome Home – Director: Danny Donnelly

Best Sci-Fi Feature

1^st – Towers – Director: Jet Wintzer

Best Sci-Fi Short

1^st –Serum – Director: Chidi Ozeih

Best Comedy Feature:

1^st Trailer Park Jesus – Director: Sean Gerowin

Best Documentary Feature:

1^st - Contradictions of Fair Hope – Director: Epatha Merkerson

2^nd – The Revolutionary - Director: Lucy Ostrander, Irv Drasnin, Don Sellers
Honorable Mention- Bailout (US) - Director Sean Fahey

Best Documentary Short:

1^st – If I Make It, I Win – Director: Roberto Ferri

Best Social Documentary:

1^st It’s A Girl Thing – Director: Shannon Silva

Best Music Documentary:

1^st – Inside the Perfect Circle: The story of Joel Thome – Director: Chris Pepino

2^nd – Diary of a Decade – Director: Jason Orr

Best Foreign Documentary

1^st – In The Name of Our Mothers (Poland) – Director: Mary Skinner

Best Foreign Feature

1^st – Duck Hunter (Italy) – Director: Edgidio Veronesi

2^nd – Zima (Germany) – Katerina Stankovic

Best Foreign Short

1^st – Ausreichend (Germany) – Director: Isabel Prahl

2^nd  - Sea Pavillion (South Africa) – Director: Todd Somodevilla

Honorable Mention – Suddenly Zinal (Iran) – Director: Navid Azed

Best Animation

1^st – Landscape (France) – Director Anabela Costa

2^nd – The Game (Poland) – Director: Marcin Janiec

Honorable Mention – O-Bon (US) – Director: Robert Kauffman

Best Music Video

1^st - Magic Sounds of Arrows (Sweden) – Director: Oskar Gullstrand

2^nd – It's Over Now - KIN4LIFE (US) - Director: Dorian G. Stone

Thank you,

Benjamin F. Barnett

Festival Director

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 5 Hits Town This Week | Philadelphia Weekly

Thank you to Matt Prigge at the Philadelphia Weekly for this interesting article. Now let's get this man out to see the 101 other films on the schedule. What say you?

~ ed

True Bromance to screen at Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 5

Saturday, June 23^rd, 2012 5:15pm-7:00pm - Franklin Institute IMAX Theater

True Bromance is a unique and hilarious film, falling somewhere between the various realms of comedy, drama, documentary, and mockumentary.  It is a highly self-conscious film, and rightly so because of it’s subject, but what makes True Bromance stand out amongst many other films is it’s extremely reflexive nature.  The film places real people in fake situations, fake people in real situations, real people acting, people playing caricatures of themselves, and contains some who are completely unaware of the proverbial joke of authenticity running through the film. 

The film has a long and tortured production history, and it is frankly a miracle of the director and main actor’s focus and dedication that made the film come together.  It is also apparent that throughout the project, the film has become something quite different since it’s initial conception, and it is a great trait of the film to be so constantly changing and re-evaluating itself.  The through line of Devin Ratray attempting to find love with Condoleeza Rice holds everything together quite well, and Devin Ratray is at times absolutely brilliant, truly living the role to the point that it becomes very questionably how much he is acting and how much he is being.

The film is about love of all sorts, romantic, parental, brotherly, between friends, but it ultimately also becomes about so many other things, such as privacy, friendly advice, projection of love, rights to our own image, celebrity and it’s pitfalls, and towards the end it becomes a hilarious questioning of our own government and their responses to someone attempting to profess their love for Condi.   The various ways the film is constructed all work rather well, although the comic book interlays taken from The Hangover and the bromance subplot feel slightly added on after the fact.  But they work, and within the reappropriated media of Condi, and the back and forth between real and fake, the real significance of the film can be found.  The film is an example of the post-postmodern crisis we face in media today.  Ultimately, the film asks the question: what is truly real in our world of illusions, and what illusions in our world are as real as it gets?

- Jeff Curran for #Pi5

Discussing screeners: 5th Annual Philadelphia Independent Film Festival June 20 - 24, 2012

Great fest meeting this AM! In the #UFF discussing submissions, sponsors, venue's, and other things. We are deciding if we should "blog live" our conversations. Any thoughts? ------------------------ Submit to the 5th Annual Philadelphia Independent Film Festival via Withoutabox here: Submit! #piff #Pi5 #uff Please share and pass this link on.
See you at the festival June 20 - 24, 2012! Benjamin Barnett Festival Director 5th Annual Philadelphia Independent Film Festival June 20 - 24, 2012

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 2011 Award Recipients.

Thank you to all.
It takes time for us to figure out best of festival. We truly believe all movies in our fest deserve such accolades. It is also true that we screen movies for reasons other than "cinematic" appeal.

We really take a hard look at the awards.

Thank you for your patience and we are sorry for any confusion :)

If you would like a High Resolution (300 dpi) Adobe PhotoShop .psd file, please email us directly and we will send it to you.

We want to thank you all for submitting, sponsoring, and participating.

See you at #uff...

Benjamin F. Barnett
Festival Director
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 4

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival Best of Festival recipients 2011:
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Best Feature – From The Head (91min) (Comedy, Drama) Dir. George Griffith. On his third anniversary as a bathroom attendant in a New York City strip club, SHOES sees the same idiosyncratic characters that have flooded his porcelain kingdom for years. But before this shift is over, Shoes will discover that things have changed, and it’s no longer “same tits, different day.”

Honorable Mention - Rachel & Diana (76min) (Drama) Dir. Dave Janetta. "Rachel & Diana" is the story of one young woman's search for perspective and clarity in a modern, digital world. When an unexpected package arrives in the mail shedding new light on her past she takes to the highway.

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Best Political Documentary - Zielinski (66min) (Politics / Documentary) Dir. Chase Thompson / Ryan Walker. By 1983 John Zielinski was a well-known author and photographer. His work had appeared in Life Magazine, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and countless other publications. But in a devastating 1984 contract dispute, he lost $50,000 and his professional credibility.

Honorable Mention - - A Hitler (min) The film, by writer/director Barry J. Hershey, is a phantasmagoric journey into the darkest recesses of the mind of Adolf Hitler. In a dreamlike subterranean environment removed from historical time, Adolf Hitler confronts the demons of his psyche. As he dictates his memoirs, Hitler encounters apparitions of his fiendish confidant, Joseph Goebbels; his enigmatic mistress, Eva Braun; the mastermind of his military campaigns, Hermann Goering; Jewish psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud; and a mysterious Woman in Black.

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Best Short - Bathing and the Single Girl (11min) (Underground Romance). Dir. Christine Elise McCarthy. A raw & irreverent comedic look at the unspoken horrors of dating - and bathing with - younger men.

Honorable Mention - The Pond (19min) Dir. Dan Hannon. Shelly, a young woman distraught over the death of her husband, sets about scattering his ashes on the pond in an apple orchard they had both loved. But the waters of the pond hold a secret, and when a stranger appears unexpectedly, she learns the truth about this stunning locale.

Honorable Mention - - Blink of an Eye (Augenblicke) (Germany) (19min) (Thriller). Dir. Martin Bargiel. In the middle of the night a fight between Schenker’s neighbors won’t let him rest. Half asleep his mind is playing tricks on him: constantly he awakes in different places. Now he has to face questioning by an inspector about a dead woman, and his nightmare begins.

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Best Documentary Virtual JFK - What if JFK had never been assassinated? (91min) (Documentary) Dir. Koji Masutani ’05 (Watson Visiting Fellow ) Watson Professor Jim Blight and Adjunct Associate Professor Janet M. Lang have been focusing their research on this question and on the lessons that revisiting the Vietnam War could provide for contemporary US policy.

Honorable Mention -- Schooling the World The White Mans Last Burdon (65min) (Documentary) Dir. Carol Black. If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates it’s children.

Best Doc Short: - Voices of Sculpture (30min) (Documentary) Dir. David Steele. Featuring some of the most important and innovative sculptures and sculptors of the modern art world, Voices of Sculpture is a tour DE force documentary exploring the role and interrelationship of art, artist and observer. Set in the unique Grounds For Sculpture located near Princeton N.J., the film tells the story of Seward Johnson's founding and development of this extraordinary venue for the arts and explores the sustaining spirit that made it grow into being.

Best Real Time Documentary - Cure for the Crash - The Art of Train Hoppin (91min) (Doc / Narrative) Dir. Brian Paul Higgens. Just beyond the tracks and the world you find familiar, endures a freedom found on the edges of American excess. I traveled these outer limits via the art of hopping freight trains with a photographer named Sepher and a brave women named Ruin. We rode through mountains, over clear meadows, near hidden canyons, along sprawling farms and countless other American...


Best Music Documentary – - Meet Me on South Street - History of J. C. Dobbs (50min) (Music Documentary) Dir. George Manney. Meet Me On South Street, The Story of JC Dobbs documents, the evolution of Philadelphia's fertile music and arts subculture in the 1970's until the sad closing of JC Dobbs in 1996. Between the gritty walls and dressing room grandeur, to the mystique and dysfunctional family-like workplace, what was once the club in Philly known for live music seven nights a week, showcasing artists in the infancy of their rising careers, JC Dobbs was Philadelphia's premiere rock & roll bar!

Honorable Mention ToddStock (91min) (Music Documentary). Dir. Todd Rundgren, Ed Vigdor. Camping out at Todd’s house for his 60th birthday. Toddstock was born.

Honorable Mention - BEATBOXING - THE FIFTH ELEMENT OF HIP HOP (55m, U S A)
Dir. by Klaus Schneyder The undocumented 5th element of HipHop. Beatboxing.

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Best Comedy – - Big Guns Big Guns: (85 mins) (Comedy) Dir. Chris McDonnel. The world's worst cop gets fired and for reasons unknown becomes the target of every criminal in town. As a PI he must overcome incompetence and several character defects to solve the case and save his life.

Honorable Mention - Frontman (104min) (Comedy) Dir. Ben Hyland. When the former frontman of 'Stanley and the Knives' suddenly dies his old friends and band mates are forced back together after twenty-five years apart. Cracks soon start to appear in their relationships and it becomes clear why they split up in the first place. Frontman is a musical journey of five strangers, becoming friends for the second time.

Best Comedy Short - Gratitude (21 min) (Drama/Surreal). Dir. Cyrus Mirakhor. A harried chef learns about cooking and hard choices from a talking fish.
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Best Thriller / Crime / Drama Hamesima X (91min) (Israel) Dir. Or Yashar & Yuval Ovadia. A man is sent to Earth on a mysterious mission and caught trying to infiltrate the Mossad's most highly classified facility. During an intensive interrogation, instead of getting the information he was hoping for, the Mossad's investigator is surprised to be given mystical information and Kabalistic secrets.
Honorable Mention - Murdered - Intersecting Memoires (60min) (Crime) Dir. Terance Ross. MURDERED, intersecting memoirs is an experimental single author movie. It is a cinema/literature fusion and is part of an interactive site best experienced by going to murderedtheweb.com.


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Best Art House - Hunger (min) (Art House / Mystery) Dir. A typical dinner with friends where their secret desires are anything but. (French: Un dîner typique avec les amis où leurs désirs secrets sont tout sauf.)

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Best Foreign : Chasing Che (78m, Iran) Dir. by Alireza Rofougaran One mans journey to follow the footsteps of his hero, Che Guevera while he translates his history into Farsi.


Honorable Mention -DILLI (25m, India) Dir. by Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas. What happens when you relocate 2 million people to nowhere?

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Best Horror – Summer of Massacre. (78min) (Horror) Dir. Joe Castro. This movie is insane, actually insane is an understatement. It's a 100 MPH gore ride that never slows down. This film offers you not 1 but 8 maniacal, terrifying, relentless, and unstoppable killers. Prepare yourself for a body count so high, so bloody, so shocking, it is unlike anything have ever seen… in the history of slasher films.


Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 2011 Award Recipients.

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Festival goers - CONTACT INFORMATION for this years 2011 Philadelphia Independent Film Festival.

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COMEDY ...... Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 4, June 22-26. #piff4 #Pi4 COMEDY ......

COMEDY ...... Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 4, June 22-26. #piff4 #Pi4 COMEDY ......

}-------> Raven Lounge <-------{

1718 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (215) 840-3577

(limited seating!)

[[[ Thursday 23rd ]]]

*** Big Guns - 7pm - 9pm

When the world's worst cop is fired he becomes the world's worst private detective. For reasons unknown he finds himself the target of every criminal in town. He must overcome his incompetence and several character defects to solve the case and save his life.

[[[ Friday 24th ]]]

*** Tell your Friends - The Concert Movie ... 6pm - 7:30pm

This is the story of indie comedy in New York City; like classic rock films 'Woodstock' and 'The Last Waltz,' it tells the story of not just a show, but a scene--a generation of comedians who honed their craft in the bars, rock clubs, and little black box theatres outside the mainstream comedy club circuit.

*** Front Man 7:45 - 9:30pm

A Comedy about struggling with Life,

Coping with Death, and playing soft rock along the way.

[[[ Saturday 25th ]]]

*** (Short Collection # ) 6pm - 7pm

... ladies and gentlemen

jordan rock - 40min

This is a glimpse into the world of 20 year old stand-up comedian jordan rock.a georgetown, sc native, following in the footsteps of his older brothers chris and tony (and cousin sherrod) is the ultimate challenge.Can he find his voice and make a name for himself on the new york comedy scene?

... Alienate - 12min

After his race has crash landed on Earth, Harry finds himself in a new and confusing world. As he struggles between assimilating with daily human life and maintaining the distinctions of his people, Harry finds himself feeling like a fish out of water.

... Bull Fighting - 3 min

You guessed it!

7:15pm - 9pm ... PlayStation Killed the Puppet

Imagine a world with puppets and humans co-existing. America's society is used as a template and is spoofed in this film.

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The Franklin Institute Science Museum is located in Center City Philadelphia, at the intersection of 20th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Box Office # for all Franklin Institute screenings is: 215-448-1254.

[[[ Thursday 23rd ]]]

Tell Your Friends - The Concert Movie (IMAX)

This is the story of indie comedy in New York City; like classic rock films 'Woodstock' and 'The Last Waltz,' it tells the story of not just a show, but a scene--a generation of comedians who honed their craft in the bars, rock clubs, and little black box theatres outside the mainstream comedy club circuit.

[[[ Saturday 25th ]]]

Big Guns (IMAX) - Police gone wrong.

When the world's worst cop is fired he becomes the world's worst private detective. For reasons unknown he finds himself the target of every criminal in town. He must overcome his incompetence and several character defects to solve the case and save his life.

COMEDY ......

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 4, June 22-26. #piff4 #Pi4

COMEDY ......

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 4 Laurel - We rest on this, so please post it.

Attached is the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 4 Laurel as a .jpeg.


May you live long and prosper. Always.


Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 4
June 22 - 26, 2011

Welcome to Adobe Systems as a Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 4 Sponsor

Film Makers -

We will be giving away 2 Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Master Collection software for lucky winners. WE HAVE not decided what category!

We will announce this soon, please contact us with suggestions. :)
More prize announcements as the days and weeks go on.

...
Benjamin F. Barnett
Festival Director
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 4
June 22 - 26, 2011

WithoutaBox Festival submission link ... 2011 Philadlephia Independent Film Festival

#PIFF4 -

We have asked film makers if WAB is their submission system of choice and for the 4th year, you have said yes. We are always looking for the best and easy way for you to submit to the fest and are happy to be working with WAB for the 4th year. You can use this link http://www.withoutabox.com/login/6382 to submit.

We have added one more deadline for your convenience.

Please contact us at info@PhiladelphiaIndependentFilmFestival.com with questions or call the studio at 215 592-1242 if you have direct questions.

Thank you!

We hope to see you at the festival June 22-26, 2011.

UPDATE: Festival Submission screenings at the Sedgwick date to be moved!

The film forum is on the move again! For on going updates / input we're at the forum blog: http://undergroundfilmforum.blogspot.com/.

We will confirm a spot and date next week. Media Bureau screenings and festival submission preview / screenings will be part of the new dates as well as our ongoing daily screenings in the lab. Sorry for the delay!

It's a tough road out there with so many pro's with the best ideas! But it's healthy for the viewers... ;) We're excited to have our own screenings again.

Thank you for listening to us the past 5 weeks... More soon ...

Michael Winner - Dirty Weekend (uncut!!). Classic Satire and Revenge all in one ... 'nuff said. Underground Film Forum #UFF

Presented by: Underground Film Forum, Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, and Adam Lippe>>>

Tonight! Sedgwick on Germantown Avenue. Mt. Airy. 7pm.

7137 Germantown Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19119

Michael Winner - Dirty Weekend (uncut). Classic Satire and Revenge all in one ... 'nuff said.

See you there.

Dark Thriller White of the Eye + the short Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance. Screening March 3rd at the Sedgwick in M. Airy.

The screenings have been great and we are moving on with Cafe plans! Come by, watch the movies, tell us your ideas...

Screening time is 7pm.

Thank you to:
http://PhiladlephiaIndependentFilmfestival.com
and the humble...
* http://www.RegrettableSincerity.com

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 2011

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June 22nd - 26th, 2011

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Wheedles Groove ...Seattle's Sacred Soul of the 70's & 80's. #uff #piff2011

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival presents:

@PhilaIndie: Wheedles Groove ...Seattle's sacred Soul of the 70's & 80's.
::: Listen to music :::

Screening now at the Underground Film Forum #puff #uff ... #phila


UPDATE: 3:25 AM EST
Tonights Forum has concluded. Thank you for attending.
#UFF

Country:USA
Year: 2009
Running time: 95 Minutes
Genres:Documentary, Music, Musical
Programs:Documentary Films, Face the Music, Northwest Connections
Language: English

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The Brian Dennis Project ... Discussing the art of making art.

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival / Underground Film Forum

Documentary Feature: The Brian Dennis Project

Posted:
Amy Leonard
freeRADlab


Chronicling the creation, installation, and exhibition of an original piece of art, Joe'l Ludovich and Katherine Sender's documentary The Brian Dennis Project relates the ups and downs experienced by an independent artist. When invited to create artwork for the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Brian Dennis begins a year-long undertaking - he designs an enormous structural piece that is meant to lean on the Art Alliance's staircase. However, creating a concept model proves to be merely the first step in a long process. Dennis must weather uncertainty, frustration, confrontation, and a good deal of elbow grease. But to Dennis, who dedicates his life to art, all of the stress is worth it when the piece is complete and opening night rolls around.

The Brian Dennis Project features simple documentary style shooting and editing, capturing the impromptu essence of Dennis's artistic process. Because of the minimalist style of the film, the raw emotions that surface at each stage of Dennis's journey shine through, allowing viewers to vicariously experience the art making process. Though the process is frequently hampered by a number of setbacks, the excitement and sense of accomplishment at the creation of the piece can be thoroughly felt.

A simple yet heartfelt documentary, The Brian Dennis Project offers a holistic glimpse at the struggles and joys of being an artist.


Thank you to the Philadelphia Art Alliance.


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Wed night #uff blog post going up soon ...

C U in the studio...




Update: 08 08 2010:
Posted - underground film forum blog

Update: 08 25 2010:
Brian Dennis Project
and
Hockey Mom
have been moved to pre-post status.

Thanks again.




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Philadelphia Film Maker Michael Ryan Lawrence - Jack in the Box

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival / Underground Film Forum

Philadelphia Film Maker Michael Ryan Lawrence - Jack in the Box
Short (30 mins)





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