FILMMAKERS SPOTLIGHT

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

GENOA is a surrealist take on fatherhood and family. Shot in Italy, Philadelphia, and Chicago…

Chestnut is a story about Annie who just graduated college and decides to stay behind in Philadelphia…

Bilal Motley, a filmmaker and actor from Chester, PA, made his mark with “Midnight Oil,” a BlackStar Film Festival…

Philadelphia filmmakers Atif Lanier and Mike A. Pender are at it again, this time with their feature film: Swing…

Shameka Sawyer is a visionary and influential figure in the world of film and community activism. As the founder…

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their in ward significance.”– Aristotle…

The Civil War marked the birth of modern medicine. New, efficient weapons technology challenged medical…

End of the Line is an intelligent, character-driven urban TV drama. The show has a unique never-been…

98-year-old Homer Yasui takes four generations of his family to his secret mushroom-hunting grounds in Oregon…

There’s only one place to go after rock bottom. Addiction is an all-encompassing force in not only the lives of the…

Robert X. Golphin has launched Robert X. Golphin Entertainment, an innovative performing arts production…

Changing the Narrative is a student collective multimedia project aimed to give Strawberry Mansion High…

Hillary Hanak-Newman is an award winning Director of Photography who has been in the film business for over…

Eunice Levis is a first-generation Dominican-American, born and raised in the Bronx, New York…

Hell or High Seas is an incredible true story of a former Navy Rescue Swimmer’s battle with PTSD…

Beyond Sixty Tag line: A Woman’s Age is not her Story Movie Description/Marketing: The myth that older women…

Shameka Sawyer is a filmmaker and founder of the 5 Shorts Project, a project that helps aspiring filmmakers to…

ABORTION HELPLINE, THIS IS LISA, a new short documentary by Philadelphia filmmakers Barbara Attie…

First Day Back is a short film that deals with a very current and unfortunately familiar issue, gun violence in schools…