98-year-old Homer Yasui takes four generations of his family to his secret mushroom-hunting grounds in Oregon in search of the prized and delicious Matsutake mushroom, passing on a longtime Japanese American tradition. Matsutake will premiere at CAAMFest in San Francisco on May 14th! Director: With roots in Philadelphia, Theodore Caleb Haas is a fourth-generation Yasui [...]
There’s only one place to go after rock bottom. Addiction is an all-encompassing force in not only the lives of the afflicted, but also those around them. OUR AMERICAN FAMILY is a radically honest portrait of five family members grappling with the legacy of generational addiction as they fight to heal resentments and pull each [...]
Robert X. Golphin has launched Robert X. Golphin Entertainment, an innovative performing arts production company. The multi-award-winning digital chat series RXG Exclusives, hosted by Robert, is now produced by the company. David Chang, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and screenwriter, is one of the most recent guests. Both men have previously been honored as winners of [...]
Changing the Narrative is a student collective multimedia project aimed to give Strawberry Mansion High School scholars a platform in order to tell their narrative through the art of filmmaking. In 2013, Diane Sawyer reported on the school and labeled it “The most dangerous school in this country.” As a result, Strawberry Mansion High School’s [...]
Hillary Hanak-Newman is an award winning Director of Photography who has been in the film business for over twenty years. Growing up in West Chester Pennsylvania, she moved to Los Angeles in 2001 to pursue filmmaking. Over the course of her thirteen years in Los Angeles she owned her own Grip and Lighting company, while [...]
Eunice Levis is a first-generation Dominican-American, born and raised in the Bronx, New York, currently based in Philadelphia. She is currently developing several projects that combine her love of horror, sci-fi, thriller, and fantasy, many through a diasporic lens. Her work seeks to disrupt and challenge dominant narratives around technology, gender, history, and diaspora identity by shifting the stories [...]
Hell or High Seas is an incredible true story of a former Navy Rescue Swimmer’s battle with PTSD, and his mission to pave a smoother path for veterans returning to civilian life. It's a story of resiliency, hope and second chances. Now streaming. Visit hellorhighseas.com to find out more, and follow along @hellorhighseas on Facebook [...]
Beyond Sixty Tag line: A Woman’s Age is not her Story Movie Description/Marketing: The myth that older women are invisible is shattered in this inspirational and revealing look at remarkable women thriving, leading lives rich in experiences and accomplishments that defy perceptions and reveal what is possible beyond sixty. A woman’s age is not her [...]
Shameka Sawyer is a filmmaker and founder of the 5 Shorts Project, a project that helps aspiring filmmakers to make their first short film, based in Philadelphia, PA. During the global pandemic of 2020, known as COVID 19, Shameka's brother was brutally murdered one block away from his home. In looking for ways to process [...]
ABORTION HELPLINE, THIS IS LISA, a new short documentary by Philadelphia filmmakers Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Mike Attie, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Short Films by the American Film Institute at the AFI DOCS 2020 Film Festival. The jury said of ABORTION HELPLINE, THIS IS LISA: “For its simple yet profound approach [...]
