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  • A closer Look: P.W. Prichett – Artist Talk & Dinner – 7/15/26

    October Gallery 6353 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    FRIEDAcommunity - A talk with P.W. Prichett - July 15 Join us for a conversation with artist P.W. Prichett, creator of this year's large-scale participatory art project, The Big Sloth.Many of you volunteered by helping to hand-string the disposable cutlery that became part of the installation. Now, artist Pam Prichett will take you behind the scenes and share what has unfolded over the past ten months in her South Bronx studio, offering insight into the creative process that brought The Big Sloth to life. Artwork by RISD alum and native New Yorker, Pamela Prichett has been featured in The Provincetown

    Free

  • INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    SIFTMedia Collective presents a 4 week Intensive Screenwriting Workshop with Stephanie Malson – this Workshop is designed to support filmmakers, whether starting with an initial concept or refining a short or feature-length screenplay. Through deep analysis and communal feedback, you’ll see your idea or draft develop into a screenplay.

  • BlackStar Film Festival

    BlackStar Film Festival is an annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of the global majority, showcasing films by Black, Brown, and Indigenous people from around the world. The 15th BlackStar Film Festival will take place from August 6-9 on Broad Street in Philadelphia as well as online around the world. There will be screenings, panels, parties, and other events. Passes are now on sale for the 15th annual @blackstarfest! Explore the packed film list, grab your passes, and join them this summer for four days of powerful films, panels, parties, good energy, and community. More info at: blackstarprojects.org/festival

  • Producers’ Forum: Fire Through Dry Grass by Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides

    Body of Work: Night 1 – My Brooklyn/Body of Work: Night 2 – Emergent City
    Scribe Video Center 3908 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Fire Through Dry Grass by Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides (USA, 2023, 89 min) As COVID-19 raged through nursing homes, a group of Black and brown disabled artists decided to document in real time the harrowing experience of residents inside the Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center. Co-directors Alexis Neophytides and Andres “Jay” Molina uncover a history of institutional neglect and abandonment, where Jay lives along with his fellow Reality Poets, a group of residents mostly gun violence survivors. Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, Jay and the other Reality Poets don’t look like typical nursing home residents. They

    $4 – $5

  • INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    SIFTMedia Collective presents a 4 week Intensive Screenwriting Workshop with Stephanie Malson – this Workshop is designed to support filmmakers, whether starting with an initial concept or refining a short or feature-length screenplay. Through deep analysis and communal feedback, you’ll see your idea or draft develop into a screenplay.

  • Storyville: Land of Dreams by Ambarien Alqadar

    Scribe Video Center 3908 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Land of Dreams by Ambarien Alqadar (USA, 2025, 40 min) Virender Rana, once a migrant worker from India, chases his dream of becoming a filmmaker while working as a taxi driver in America. Shot over a decade, an intimate portrait of an immigrant following his dreams. Ambarien Alqadar began her filmmaking journey as an assistant to director Sabiha Sumar on sets of Silent Waters. Shaped by the experience of growing up in Jamia Nagar- a neighborhood on the margins of New Delhi, famous for its crushing lack of resources, police atrocities and delicious biryani, Ambarien works with a culturally specific

    $3

  • The Lawn at UCity Square x cinéSPEAK present Hoppers

    The Lawn at uCity Square 3701 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    You're invited to a new FREE outdoor family friendly screening series presented by The Lawn at UCity Square! For September, we're excited to present a zany animal world sci-fi adventure, Hoppers (2026)—What if you could talk to animals and understand what they're saying? In Disney and Pixar's all-new feature film "Hoppers," scientists have discovered how to "hop" human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals! The adventure introduces Mabel, an animal lover who seizes an opportunity to use the technology, uncovering mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could have imagined.

    Free

  • Storyville: Africa’s Cultural Landmarks by Sosena Solomon

    Scribe Video Center 3908 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Africa’s Cultural Landmarks by Sosena Solomon (USA, 2025, 77 min) Africa’s Cultural Landmarks, a series of short documentaries directed by Sosena Solomon, examines some of Africa’s most notable cultural landscapes. With striking visual storytelling, the films document current preservation efforts against the backdrop of an array of challenges ranging from perishable materiality to rapid urbanization. Part of an initiative to introduce new visual content that reframes The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s newly renovated Arts of Africa galleries, Africa’s Cultural Landmarks highlights Africa’s diverse architectural vernaculars, foregrounding local perspectives and stewardship, bridging ancestral legacies with contemporary narratives across the subcontinent. Sosena

    $3

  • Producers’ Forum: The Great Experiment by Stephen Maing and Eric Daniel Metzgar

    Scribe Video Center 3908 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The Great Experiment by Stephen Maing and Eric Daniel Metzgar (USA, Mexico, 2026, 100 mins) What holds a people together when the story they tell about themselves begins to fracture? The Great Experiment is an epic poem in documentary form – a mirror held to an American nation at war with its own reflection, asking not who is right, but whether the experiment itself can survive. Filmed in striking black and white across the US over four consequential years, from 2017 to 2021, the film considers the results of what George Washington once called “our last great experiment” in democracy.

    $4 – $5

  • INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    SIFTMedia Collective presents a 4 week Intensive Screenwriting Workshop with Stephanie Malson – this Workshop is designed to support filmmakers, whether starting with an initial concept or refining a short or feature-length screenplay. Through deep analysis and communal feedback, you’ll see your idea or draft develop into a screenplay.

  • INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    SIFTMedia Collective presents a 4 week Intensive Screenwriting Workshop with Stephanie Malson – this Workshop is designed to support filmmakers, whether starting with an initial concept or refining a short or feature-length screenplay. Through deep analysis and communal feedback, you’ll see your idea or draft develop into a screenplay.

  • INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    SIFTMedia Collective presents a 4 week Intensive Screenwriting Workshop with Stephanie Malson – this Workshop is designed to support filmmakers, whether starting with an initial concept or refining a short or feature-length screenplay. Through deep analysis and communal feedback, you’ll see your idea or draft develop into a screenplay.

  • INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    SIFTMedia Collective presents a 4 week Intensive Screenwriting Workshop with Stephanie Malson – this Workshop is designed to support filmmakers, whether starting with an initial concept or refining a short or feature-length screenplay. Through deep analysis and communal feedback, you’ll see your idea or draft develop into a screenplay.

  • INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    SIFTMedia Collective presents a 4 week Intensive Screenwriting Workshop with Stephanie Malson – this Workshop is designed to support filmmakers, whether starting with an initial concept or refining a short or feature-length screenplay. Through deep analysis and communal feedback, you’ll see your idea or draft develop into a screenplay.

  • INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    SIFTMedia Collective presents a 4 week Intensive Screenwriting Workshop with Stephanie Malson – this Workshop is designed to support filmmakers, whether starting with an initial concept or refining a short or feature-length screenplay. Through deep analysis and communal feedback, you’ll see your idea or draft develop into a screenplay.

  • INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

    SIFTMedia Collective presents a 4 week Intensive Screenwriting Workshop with Stephanie Malson – this Workshop is designed to support filmmakers, whether starting with an initial concept or refining a short or feature-length screenplay. Through deep analysis and communal feedback, you’ll see your idea or draft develop into a screenplay.