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@PhilaIndie festival #8 happens and people pack the house. Now what?

12 Thursday Nov 2015

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Philadelphia Independent Film Festival #8

#piff #uff #PHLfilm

It’s been a few months since the festival partnered with Philly Tech Week #PTW16 and camped out at the University of the Arts. We had never tried to screen in one space and in the spirit of us moving around the city since 2011, we took the task to heart. It was an exciting time for all of us.

The combination of 87 films with yet another fantastic and enthusiastic crowd showed Philadelphia and the world that the Independent film is alive and well. We are proud to have screened films from as far away as the Middle East (Iran and Israel), Italy, Montenegro, UK, Spain, Holland, all over the United States and much more. We produced multiple live webcasts that drew more people than attended the festival live. Our on going (circa. 1997) discussion of our (human) relationship with digital media continues to push the envelope. Local Independent film is thriving and will always be well represented at the festival.

It was great to see so many new faces. It shows the #PHL film community is much, much larger than anybody knows. We are proud to be part of and contribute regularly to the ever evolving landscape in Philadelphia film for almost 20 years. We support the #PHLfilm creative and business community and so should you!

Corzo Center for the Creative Economy Philadelphia Art Alliance What’s next for us? We plan to continue our UArts, Philadelphia Art Alliance and or Philly Nexus events where we discuss and introduce new and evolving artists, filmmakers, tech heads and people who want to discuss the current memes. We’ll continue to do these events and focus on working with local filmmakers to premier local films. The UArts Gershmon Y and the Corzo Center for the Creative Economy are fantastic venues to premier films. The Gershmon Y has a 600 seat capacity theater with some of the best projection the city has to offer.  We feel honored to present at such venues with such talented people.

Thank you again for continuing to make our festival such a success. We hope the past 9 years have shown our dedication to the craft as a craft and we look forward to seeing you out, online and buying tickets to all screenings (that’s all festivals people) through out the year and for many years to come. If you see an independent shoot on the streets of Philadelphia, buy the set some joe from a local shop. They’ll love you back for sure!

Feel free to contact us or interact with us online where we are active daily.

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Yours in the arts,
Benjamin Barnett, Festival Director #piff

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Ex-Obama economic aide: Fear the young unemployed

13 Saturday Dec 2014

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coPhilly becomes CoFund360 and posts Executive Summary

03 Monday Nov 2014

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Posted: Cofund360 Executive Summary. v1.3 (1.4 pending). Comments to the management team are welcome. Please note that this comment period will end November 12th. ~ed

CoFund360 Executive Summary 1.3

 

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The worlds first Crowdfunding Accelerator ~ CoPhilly #PHLMade Demo Day

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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Get to Demo Day!

Get to Demo Day!

We are proud to claim this fact. Yes it is true. With a sophisticated and unique curriculum and a torrent of interest, we launched in 2014 the worlds first crowdfunding accelerator. What does this mean?

Read the Technically Philly article here to find out: Inside coPhilly’s #PHLMade Demo Day. The daylong event showcased more than 20 early-stage companies, including members of the coPhilly accelerator program.

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CoPhilly.com ~ The first crowdfunding accelerator. #crowdsourcing

13 Monday Oct 2014

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Update: address: 2401 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pa 19103. @ CityCoHo / Nexus. ~~ cophilly.com
coPhilly is a unique and hand’s on start-up crowdfunding accelerator program based out of Philadelphia http://citycoho.com/ in Philadelphia, PA. CoPhilly accepts startups, nonprofits, creative’s, makers and small business owners seeking $10K – $1M in seed or growth capital into 10-week programs that culminates with a Business Demonstration Weekend through weekly workshops via hands on teaching, original curriculum development, business strategy and management, business mentoring, and digital media strategy.

We are excited to be working regularly on the next 10 week intake in February. Come by Nexus to discuss why this disruptive fundraising process is enabling the making and creative economies to, once and for all, strike out on their own.  ~ ed

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Congratulations on the 7th Year of the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival

04 Friday Jul 2014

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We want to thank you all for making the seventh year of the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival so special. Thank you to the volunteers who made this happen. Thank you to Actor / filmmaker Melissa O’Donnell for chairing this years program team and holding the Underground Film Forum court. Thank you to the winners and all of the Official Selections.

This year saw remarkable movement to a more solid and grounded festival. At the top of the list is our first attempt to work with a fiscal sponsor, pifva.org. We are proud to continue our tradition of fitting films to venues by adding  new venues (Clay Studio, Benjamin’s Desk and ImpactHubPhilly.com) and hosting sold out speaking events (Sean McKnights SAG/Aftra discussions) among many other talk back’s (who will forget the National Constitution Center’s lobby discussions?). We are especially proud to continue to host filmmakers from all over the world including Hong Kong, England, Germany, Spain, Japan, France, Canada, LA, NYC, Wisconsin, Atlanta, New Jersey, Delaware, and more.

The festival grew past its roots this year. PIFF Moscow launched to great success. Thank you to Mike Lass and Ksenia. We took Credit Cards for the first time! We used advanced ticket sales for the first time and even worked with a festival consultant (Thom Cardwell). We signed on a Volunteer Coordinator (Dana Michael) and this year our Volunteer team had two training sessions prior to the festival. Do you miss training on the fly? 🙂

We can’t wait to be back for festival #8 already being planned! The festival will be held on June 24 – 28th. Although that might change as we are discussing working with a few events in the city. Stay tuned for that.

Submissions fire back up October 1st, 2013. That’s right around the corner!

Thank you again and we look forward to the next installment of the festival.

Benjamin F. Barnett
Festival Founder / Director

 

Thank you to long time sponsors: Adobe, PhilaActing.com, DahDay.com, Producers Association, mediabureau.com, Plays & Players, and gearstuff.com.

 

 

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Philadelphia Independent Film Festival receives a Philadelphia Cultural Fund Grant!

08 Thursday May 2014

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We are happy to announce that we received a Cultural Fund Grant of $2,400.  We would like to graciously thank the Philadelphia Art Community and District 1 Councilmen Mark Squilla. Thank you for encouragement and support. We have been traveling the globe and the web to discover and connect different artists and filmmakers who work to see beyond “what is” and instead look to explore, create, and then screen. This form of Independent film making often takes the viewer beyond the boundaries normally experienced in the theater. Either way, it is sure to make you think 😉

We’ll see you June 25-29, 2014 for the 7th annual festival. The Box office is at Plays & Players Theater at 1714 Delancey St, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

Thank you again Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund!

~ Benjamin F. Barnett  Festival Director #piff #uff #Pi7

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Philadelphia Independent Film Festival Opens 2014 submissions!

11 Friday Oct 2013

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Hello and welcome back. It’s official. As of October 1st we have opened submissions for the 7th annual festival. We will be holding the festival June 25 – 29, 2014. Use this link <a href=”http://bit.ly/PIFF7″>PIFF 7 </a>to submit now and get the discussion going.  We are really looking forward to festival #7 and in many ways, this is what we have been working towards for a long time. Thank you to everybbody who believed in the model.

If you have any questions about our screening process, please contact us direct or post to our Twitter and or Facebook feeds with any questions you might have. We have what I am sure is an unorthodox process by any standard but we feel confident that our process best serves the filmmaker. Essentially, our screening process is a peer to peer approach to programming a film festival that has no genre agenda when it is initiated.

As we have for the past 6 years, we use withoutabox.com to communicate with filmmakers and collect submissions. If you have any questions about the withoutabox.com service and how we utilize it, please feel free to ask.

If you haven’t already signed up to the festival mailing list, you can do so here:

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The Cycle of Age. by Benjamin Barnett

25 Wednesday Sep 2013

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The cycle of aging (humanoid circa 2013) described in “age brackets” that which humans self define based on above average life expectancy and interest.  This includes “health” and an individual, group, eco-system enabling “path” pattern. Each bracket is a specific state of time that a human can concentrate on to accomplish specific or non-specific goals and reasonably expect to accomplish them.

** disability or occurrence of disability for whatever reason in life, later in life, not factored.

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  1. The Beginning (infinite)
  2. Birth – 3 years
  3. 3 – 7  years
  4. 7 – 13 years
  5. 13 – 17 years
  6. 17 -22 years
  7. 22-27 years
  8. 27-32 years
  9. 32-39 years
  10.                39-47 years
  11.                47-55 years
  12.                55-59 years
  13.                59-66 years
  14.                66-70 years
  15.                70-76 years
  16. 76-84
  17. 84-92
  18. 92- 100
  19. 100-105
  20. 105- 110
  21. 110+

 

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Philadelphia Independent Film Festival Website Ecosystem

05 Friday Apr 2013

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We posted the Alpha version today at 4:00pm to the #uff user group. Thank you for the input.

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