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Filmmakers Lounge ~ PIFF Coin BONDS! The 1st Crypto Currency developed by a film festival in the world.

11 Thursday Sep 2025

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It is official. We are excited to announce the official Bonding of PIFF Coin and its launch on Vestige.fi. PIFF Coin is a community coin developed using Algorand to enable modern storytelling in the age of AI. We are eager to get the word out and have the coin bring these stories to life, so PASS it on. PIFF Coin has been in the lab for many years. Now it’s on the streets. The goal is to democratize filmmaking and provide digital currency for filmmakers, films, and a global marketplace. Algorand provided us with the transparency and speed to give filmmakers access to that global marketplace.

Contact us with any questions or ideas, as this coin is being designed live and enabled via the digital film community. Your input has been crucial. Thank you for making history with us, again! See more about PIFF Coin here!

~ PIFF Bloggers

Filmmakers lounge PIFF coin launches!

28 Tuesday Jan 2025

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Welcome to the Democratization of Storytelling. Enter PIFF coin. We are excited to enable the unthinkable and bring forward a global community of filmmakers utilizing the mighty Algorand blockchain. We are the 1st Film Festival to launch their own coin and we could not be more proud of PIFF coin. Combined with the Algorand community, we are amongst the best in the blockchain world. Head over to PIFF COIN and make sure you have your Pera Wallet. We are live on Twitter @PHILAINDIE and @Betalab answering any and all questions. PIFFfilms.tv will be updated shortly. Let’s enable independent filmmaking like never before and bring this creative class to the coolest and most sophisticated blockchain out there. Thank you to the early adapters and to the intense (!) Algo community for their frank exchanges! Let’s go!!

Thank you! Team PIFF

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival curates its 17th annual film and tech forum with 110 films, animations and music video’s across 3 venues over 5 days. #PIFF #PIFFfilms #UFF #PTW~~>Storytelling in the age of AI.

31 Friday May 2024

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As we traverse the post-pandemic festival landscape, we are amazed at the resilience and explosion of media and tech. What an incredible experience to meet with filmmakers, technologists, thinkers, curators and digital storytellers. The festival screened 42 local filmmakers in this years festival. The local shorts blocks on the 11th were incredible. It was incredible to meet so many filmmakers in one spot! So much knowledge and creativity. Thank you to the #uff and independent filmmakers for making 2024 such a success and for the past 12 months of kicking us in gear. Thank you to the #Phillyfilm #Phillymusic #Phillytech community for being open to collaborate, create and deliver.

Festival goers met for 5 days (pop-up Tuesday) during Philly Tech Week across 12 genres and 3 venues. This years subject, Storytelling in the age of AI, was the interface idea. Thank you to Philly Tech Week for enabling the ecosystem. #PTW24

Thank you to the Philadelphia Ethical Society, Lightbox Theater/UArts and Canal Street Film Center for screening with us in 8k (again and again)! Thank you to the Philadelphia Acting Studio for helping put everyone on screen.

For more, we’ll meet you in the DARK ROOM to experience these incredible films and more.

~ live

Festival #14 Best of… & Underground Film Forum selections 2021.

11 Saturday Sep 2021

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Here: https://bit.ly/2021PIFF #uff #piff #pifffilms

PIFF COVID-19 update for festival #14 – LIMITED SEATING!

18 Sunday Apr 2021

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Hello and thank you for being with us during the past year. It’s been a roller coaster. We had never expected to get to our next festival on May 10-15, 2021 and still be embroiled in the Covid-19 Pandemic. Philadelphia, although with a post pandemic in view, is still on a very strict Covid-19 protocol. We are doing our best to stay up to date and in touch with all State of Pennsylvania options to best screen films. In short, we will have very, very small crowds of perhaps 22 people per screening. We will confirm at the last minute actual numbers. We are, essentially, shut down again. We regret this but are confident we will be live in 2022!

We are working furiously to produce, in-house, a 1.0 version of our streaming platform we have been discussing for the past few years. This means we are live on ROKU, Web, Mobile, VR (TBD) and in the theater 24/7. Our past few attempts were not successful. We have updated partnerships, collaborations, and have created a whole new ecosystem in the past 12 months. We are excited to continue to infuse technology and film in Philadelphia.

We have been curating and screening digital film since 1998! We are excited to bring you the next level of what we think a film festival will be. We know this is an evolving process but see an end to the Covid tunnel. We are looking forward to coming out on the other end!

Thank you for supporting the festival and we look forward to seeing you soon.

The 2021 Festival Team

Festival #13 #uff underground film forum selections and Best of… downloadable program. UPDATED!

07 Monday Dec 2020

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See attached in .pdf. Please feel free to download and respond with comments or updates. We will periodically update the guide but cannot guarantee dates. Thank you! ——> Download the 2020 PIFF Best of program!

Thank you!

Festival 12 Early submission deadline has passed. Thank you for the best year – again!

02 Sunday Dec 2018

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As 2018 slowly fades into the rearview mirror, we are intrigued that, year after year, more and more submissions head our way. Why? Why over the past 4 years have we seen such growth in festival interest, submissions, discussions, etc?

We of course want to believe that we are getting better, year after year, in curating a film festival. But maybe more importantly, we hope to be better at connecting filmmakers with resources and a fertile and ongoing ecosystem for networking and discovery. We hope so. Regular submission deadline is on. Get those films in and let’s continue to show Philadelphia what a true independent film festival is all about.

Let us know what you think. We look forward to the coming 12th annual festival May 8 – 11th, 2019. Want to speak? Contact us with your idea.

Connect! @PhilaIndie or on ROKU by searching PIFF.

See you out there,

The Festival Team

Video feed for Festival #11

20 Friday Oct 2017

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Get your gear.

Welcome. We’re off to another great year as festival #11 has seen steady submissions and a real interest in the business of film. Our infamous Animation Festival tickets are on sale! Get them here BUY Animation Festival tickets. We have a great program lining up with selections from Iran, the US, Holland, and more already accepted to screen. Tickets are $5 for this special event (that takes place during the annual festival). Thank you to #PRSguitars and Gearstuff.com for your ongoing support.

We are excited to share our festival with everybody and this includes integrating with Philly Tech Week even more. We have been passive about this venture the past few years as we scoped out the possibilities. We feel now we are ready to stand up and show you what we have in mind. Expect our VR efforts to finally come to the front. 🙂

More updates soon. Visit us on Twitter for daily news and discussions @PhilaIndie

See you at the festival!

Philadelphia Festival of Live Arts 2011 at Media Bureau

18 Tuesday Jul 2017

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Thank you to Tel Aviv Actors and Theatre Artists Yael Rasooley, This was clearly the best year we have had and they just seem to be getting better. As artists we can’t thank you enough for working through our kinks and 24 hour days. Shalom!