FirstGlance Film Festival, Philadelphia’s longest-running competitive indie film festival, programs a curated selection of more than forty new independent films by professional, emerging, and student filmmakers at their 29th annual event, May 8-10, 2026, at the Film Society Bourse, 400 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Get your VIP Passes NOW and don't miss a thing! [...]

Doylestown Filmmaker Jennifer Lin is out with her second documentary about AsianAmericans in the dance world. About Face: Disrupting Ballet highlights the work of NYC Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguinand choreographer Phil Chan, who are successfully challenging the elite world of ballet tojettison offensive racial tropes from beloved ballets like The Nutcrackerand La Bayadère. About Face [...]

WANO Studios is proud to announce the premiere of its latest project, You Were Dead Yesterday, a psychological horror pilot that combines suspense with powerful social commentary. This original screenplay was written by director Destiny Cox, starring Executive Producer, Milo Cox, and cast Angie Goode, Damien Wallace, Laura Michelle McDonald, and Nigesti Wilson. This film follows [...]

Big Picture Alliance's pathway of school, summer, and workforce programs provide hundreds of Philly youth access to media tools, creative community and professional mentorship – empowering them to define their own narrative from script-to-screen and from curiosity-to-careers. BPA's 4th Annual Big Picture Film Fest, held June 20th, 2025 at PAFA, premiered 10 new films exploring [...]

Josh Winrow is a queer black writer, director, and producer based in Philadelphia. Inspired by the surrealism that is living in modern society, wants to showcase stories that may not be shown; alternative, queer, and racial experiences. The joys and sorrows of life, the mundane to the eccentric, through a thought provoking lens that intrigues [...]

FirstGlance Film Festival, Philadelphia’s longest-running competitive indie film festival, programs a curated selection of thirty-five new independent films by professional, emerging, and student filmmakers at their 28th annual event. Celebrate and support indie film, May 16-18, 2025, at the Film Society Bourse, 400 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Single screening tickets are $20 and VIP [...]

Eclipse of the Holy Fool is a feature thriller set in a politically fractured Philadelphia neighborhood on the brink of violence. A formerly incarcerated woman striving for peace finds herself at the center of a web of intersecting lives—activists, business owners, laborers, and outsiders—each with their own agenda. With just 24 hours before tensions explode [...]

Native Philadelphian, James J. Papa, recently attended the premiere for his first film ‘No Address.’ Papa co-wrote the move script which follows a close-knit group of people experiencing homelessness and struggling to survive on the streets. It stars William Baldwin, Xander Berkeley, Ashanti, Beverly D’Angelo, Ty Pennington, and Lucas Jade Zumann, among others… “Walking the [...]

Philly filmmaker, Kathy Anderson, Co-Produced, "Call Me Ted," a six-part documentary series about the life and legacy of Ted Turner. Told in his own words, the series spans Turner's life from childhood to present day. "We started out doing a 2 hour documentary then realized that Ted and the life he has lived needed to [...]