Philadelphia Film Festival

NAME OF FESTIVAL: Philadelphia Film Festival

SINCE: 1991

WHERE: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The Philadelphia Film Festival is a film festival founded by the Philadelphia Film Society. Philadelphia Film Society creates opportunities for diverse communities to experience film through initiatives that inspire, educate, challenge, and entertain. PFS is the region’s foremost resource for film presentation and education, and is committed to presenting film as a transformative and powerful medium for artistic expression and a catalyst for strengthening community. As the producer of the Philadelphia Film Festival and creative force behind the Philadelphia Film Center, PFS Bourse Theater, and PFS Drive-In at the Navy Yard, PFS raises awareness of film as an important art form in Philadelphia, and serves as a vital piece of the city’s arts and culture community.

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(L to R) Caitriona Balfe as "Ma", Jamie Dornan as "Pa", Judi Dench as "Granny", Jude Hill as "Buddy", and Lewis McAskie as "Will" in director Kenneth Branagh's BELFAST, a Focus Features release. Credit : Rob Youngson / Focus Features

Belfast, The Same Storm, King Richard Headline 30th Philadelphia Film Festival Lineup

The 30th Philadelphia Film Festival will showcase more than 130 films.

(L-R) Clare Dunne, Molly McCann, Daniel Ryan, Dmitry Vinokurov, Ruby Rose O’Hara, Aaron Lockhart, Anita Petry and Mabel Chah star in HERSELF Photo: Pat Redmond Courtesy of Amazon Studios

29th Philadelphia Film Festival Unveils Lineup – HERSELF, BANKSY MOST WANTED, SYLVIE’S LOVE and More

29th Philadelphia Film Festival will showcase 90+ of the most critically acclaimed films including HERSELF, BANKSY MOST WANTED, SYLVIE’S LOVE.

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in Ammonite

29th Philadelphia Film Festival Announces First Wave of Films, Centerpiece Films – NOMADLAND and AMMONITE

Philadelphia Film Festival 2020 unveiled the first wave of 45 films including NOMADLAND and AMMONITE as Centerpiece Films.

2019 Ashland Independent Film Festival Varsity Audience Award: Narrative Feature: Princess of the Row - Producer A. Shawn Austin and Tayler Buck_Princess of the Row.

Coronavirus Forces Film Festivals Cancellations and Postponements (LIST)

The coronavirus is having a devastating impact on film festivals. San Francisco and RiverRun International Film Festivals have canceled.

Come As You Are directed by Richard Wong

28th Philadelphia Film Festival Winners – KNIVES OUT and COME AS YOU ARE Tie to Win Audience Award

Knives Out from director Rian Johnson and Come As You Are Richard Wong’s buddy road trip comedy tied to win the coveted Audience Award at the 28th Philadelphia Film Festival.

Knives Out, written and directed by Rian Johnson, and starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Colette, Katherine Langford and Christopher Plummer

JUST MERCY and KNIVES OUT Bookend 28th Philadelphia Film Festival Lineup

Destin Daniel Cretton’s JUST MERCY starring Michael B. Jordan will open the 28th Philadelphia Film Festival, with the outlandish mystery film, KNIVES OUT closing the festival.

Philadelphia Film Festival is a Wrap; “The Duke of Burgundy” “The Overnighters” Win Top Awards

The Duke of Burgundy

The 23rd Philadelphia Film Festival, which ran from October 16-26, ended with a sold-out closing night screening of Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern. In the award ceremony preceding the closing night festivities, the festival presented a series of awards to this year’s festival stand-outs. The Award for Best Narrative Feature went to The Duke of Burgundy directed by Peter Strickland, and the Award for Best Documentary Feature went to The Overnighters directed by Jesse Moss.

Philadelphia Film Festival Screenings Beginning to Sell out and Add New Films

The Guest

The 23rd Philadelphia Film Festival, which begins this week on Thursday, October 16 and continues through Sunday, October 26, have added new films to the event line-up. The Festival will add a midnight screening of Sundance hit The Guest to this year’s Graveyard Shift film category. Advance tickets have sold out for the Festival’s Opening Night Film, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and Centerpiece film, The Imitation Game. The October 23rd film screening of Imperial Dreams is also sold out with tickets still remaining for the October 22nd film screening.

2014 Philadelphia Film Festival Film Line-Up; Opens with “Birdman” and Closes with “Wild”

Birdman Birdman

The 23rd Philadelphia Film Festival, taking place from October 16 – October 26, 2014, throughout the Greater Philadelphia area will open with Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s much anticipated new feature starring Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts and Emma Stone. The Closing Night Celebration will take place on Friday, October 24th with Wild, Jean-Marc Vallée’s critical hit out of the 2014 Toronto Film Festival starring Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern and Gabby Hoffman. The festival will continue through the weekend, wrapping up with second screenings of Jury Competition films and festival favorites on Sunday, October 26th. The 11-day Philadelphia Film Festival will locally premiere over 100 feature length and short films.

Philadelphia Film Festival’s Spring Showcase Unveils Lineup; Includes Retrospective Series Screening Oscar Winning Director Alfonso Cuarón’s Films

Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory

The full film slate is unveiled for the upcoming PFF: Spring Showcase, a new spring extension of the Philadelphia Film Festival, which will be held Friday, April 11 to Thursday, April 17, 2014. In its opening weekend, the Showcase will feature 17 films currently screening through the international film festival circuit. The remainder of the event will feature evening screenings highlighting the creative and visually captivating films of 2014 Oscar Winner for Best Director, Alfonso Cuarón. The retrospective series will screen all of Cuarón’s features in chronological order beginning with his first, 1991’s SÓLO CON TU PAREJA.

Philadelphia Film Festival to Present PFF Spring Showcase, April 11 to 17

Philadelphia Film Society Theater at the Roxy

The Philadelphia Film Society will produce the Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF): Spring Showcase, a 7-day film event scheduled to take place from Friday, April 11 to Thursday, April 17, exclusively at the PFS Theater at the Roxy. According to the PFS, the Spring Showcase offers a preview of the kind of diverse programming that audiences can expect from the annual Philadelphia Film Festival, October 16 – 26, 2014. A small collection of exciting new films including summer releases and other hits from the festival circuit, it is a great sampler of the kinds of films that will be presented in the line-up this fall.

“ILO ILO” “GOD LOVES UGANDA” Leads 2013 Philadelphia Film Festival Jury Award Winners

ILO ILO ILO ILO

The 22nd Philadelphia Film Festival announced the 2013 Jury Award winners; ILO ILO won the award for Best Narrative Feature Film, and GOD LOVES UGANDA won the award for Best Documentary Feature Film. Set in the late 1990s, the moving relationship between a rebellious Singaporean boy and his new Filipino nanny is lovingly captured in director Anthony Chen’s ILO ILO, winner of the Camera d’Or for Best First Feature at 2013 Cannes. In GOD LOVES UGANDA, the effects of the American evangelical fundamentalist movement on the religious and political climate of Uganda are scrutinized in this eye-opening documentary by Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams.

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