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PIFF moves into suite at Ethical Society

30 Thursday Oct 2025

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Good news! After a long road of discovery and research, PIFF has officially moved into the Ethical Society suites. This is great news for many reasons! The first is that it provides filmmakers and creatives with a spot directly in the center of Philadelphia where they can use tools, locations, and meet with other creatives looking to “make” things. This space is being outfitted as a co-working space with A/V gear in ways not seen in the city. First, it’s a home theater, then it’s a venue for intimate sound and video, then it’s a meeting space for the 21st century.

PIFF is proud to move the needle, again, in the city for Independent filmmakers and storytellers. Join us and stop by! Come through during the 12am- 4pm hours (more hours added as we get acclimated) and work in a quiet yet vibrant community. —–> 1906 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Keep an eye on our socials for what’s next as we move in and do it LIVE! by Design!

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

Media Bureau, Digital Media Strategy, Advertising and Digital Media Content

14 Thursday Mar 2013

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Discussing DMS ~             Bar Camp Philly 2009

It’s exciting times here at the Media Bureau. We have long pioneered the use of digital media strategy and specifically user-centric content aggregation to sell and market (anything). We have always worked to provide maximum collaboration in a digital and dynamic framework. We have worked in the digital film and political market place since 1997, designing interfaces connected to user-centric interaction models tied into marketing ideas. We are considered pioneers in the field of streaming media as a viable content based business solution and have spoke many times on the delivery of content as a tool to brand, market, and sell. 15 years later we feel some of our original ideas have now come to the front of digital media.

Agility is the new martini lunch. It is in the market place where the cross roads of film, media, and politics intersect that we have been focusing our attention. The transformation from analog to digital. The following incomplete list represents a suite of ideas to work with when producing (digital media) content for the internet:

1. enable agility (as a brand/business)
2. enable users to focus on their needs as a means to the end (primary tasks)
3. enable brands to interact via “consumer demanded” technology (helpers)
4. enable control of the brand to a “user” (value prop) (user is revenue model)
5. enable ubiquitous and accessible market place(s)(buy/sell)
6. enable (on demand) eco-system (build your own sustainable community)

~ Benjamin F. Barnett

BetaLab.

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Philadelphia Independent Film Festival launches 5th festival with record attendance

07 Saturday Jul 2012

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Festival 5 is a wrap. The follow-up now begins. What a process to produce a film festival. If we have any respect for any Festival Founder or Director it is that they even make something like this happen at all. The expectations of “thousands” of filmmakers and attendees is stunning and at times beyond belief (parking on demand in Philadelphia?). A film festival is motivated in its pure sense to screen films that they feel the public wants to see. Their are those that feel they are “all about local film or Independent film” but in short, are sorely missing the point. The film fest attendee has as much love for film as the one who brags “they are all about it”. The process in which a festival is produced is where the dedication lies and that is the holy grail – producing a festival by all means possible. Media Bureau has been producing @philaIndie since it conceived the idea in 2007. We all dreamed of getting to festival 5. The founder and festival director, Benjamin F. Barnett and Bernard Glincosky, are still standing. This years team consisted of the most talented and diverse body since we broke ground in 2008 with the first festival. This years team (now going on 2+ years), Stephon Tucker (Producer), James DiFonzo (Festival PR and writer in residence), Melissa O’Donnell (Screening Chair and filmmaker liason), Kelsey Hoffman (Festival General Manager), Edgardo Vazquez (Festival Art Director), Bernard Glincosky (Volunteer Coordinator) and the vast army of volunteers that took on “jobs” to make it the best festival by far ever are a force. This spawning is what makes Philadelphia film so special to us and we hope all of you. This years festival screened 122 films and video’s, with 14 screened “off festival” (136 total). What can we say? Hate us or love us, we are here to stay and are on track despite the carnage of a global financial meltdown and blindsiding competition.

See you June 26 – 30, 2013 for festival #6. Bigger, better, stronger. We hope you join us.

The #piff team

The 1st #Independent Eye @Franklin Institute screening series ends. 2011

20 Sunday Nov 2011

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Re-Posted:  Everybody at Media Bureau and the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival want to thank the whole team at FI.edu / @Franklin Institute !!
Thank you for enabling the #Independent Eye screening series from Oct. 18 – Nov. 13, 2011 in your great institution. TY to Kathryn and John for the vision. #piff5 #Pi5 #film #Philly – Great dialogue.

We look forward to screening in March and during the 5th Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, June 21 – 25, 2012. 😉

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival presents: Independent Eye @ the Franklin Institute October 19 – Nov 13, 2011 Screening Schedule 2011

17 Monday Oct 2011

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Philadelphia Independent Film Festival presents:

Independent Eye @ the Franklin Institute

October 19 – Nov 13, 2011

Screening Schedule 2011

More info: Screening listings – http://on.fb.me/roKh6v

(Screenings subject to change)

October:

Wednesday – 19th 7:30pm – 8:55pm

Stage Left: History of Theatre in SF. (Documentary) (Dir. Austin Forbord in attendance)

Stage Left is a documentary film in celebration of a unique theater community. The film begins with the founding of The San Francisco Actor’s Workshop in 1952 and extends through 2010. Inspired by a Western history of risk taking and exploration, a climate of political and social activism, a particular multicultural mix, and a geography that is seismically unstable, San Francisco Theater artists have focused on pushing the boundaries of the form.

Friday – 21st 7:35pm – 9:00pm

Mind Flesh (81min) Horror, Sci-Fi

MindFlesh is a horror/thriller about obsession. Chris Jackson is a taxi driver with a childhood trauma. The trauma has made him a portal for obsessions to pass from the mind to the physical world and hence disrupt the world’s multiple planes of reality. Extraterrestrials that police the universe threaten to kill Chris’ friends unless he conquers his past.

WITH Short: Foet 12 min Dir. Ian Fisher

Getting by in the rich world of Manhatten takes on shocking proportions.

Saturday – 22nd 7:30 – 9:00 — PIFF Short film selections:

Glory at Sea (25min)(Creepy, Political, Drama) Directed by Benh Zeitlin Produced by Court 13

A group of mourners and a man spat from the depths of Hades build a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath the sea

The Escape (25min) (Documentary What-if) Produced by the American Film Institute.

17th Century England is a time of darkness and sickness. An executioner is faced with the task of taking his sons own life. What will he do?

Serum (22 min) (Science Fiction) by Chidi Ohar

Serum is a live action film noir about a detective in the year is 2067. A world filled with fraud and corruption, a shadowy government organization called “The Black Flag” secretly controls all facets of society. Their dominance is almost complete; except for one thorn…

Friday – 28th 7:35 – 9:25

Cure For the Crash – The Art of Train Hoppin. (94min) Dir. Brian Paul Higgens

One girls pursuit of a lost boyfriend brings us deep in the American train hopping community. When the winds of travel got between them, she hopped freight trains to find him.

Sat urday– 29th 7:30 – 9:30

Heaven and Earth and Joe Davis. By Peter Sasowsky

Almost thirty years ago, a peg-legged artist and motorcycle mechanic from Mississippi walked into MIT!s Center for Advanced Visual Studies and demanded a meeting with the Director. They had not returned his calls. Forty-five minutes later, after trashing the receptionist!s desk and holding off the Cambridge police, Joe Davis walked out of Director Otto Piene’s office with a academic appointment at MIT.

||| Roundtables All discussions will be held at Media Bureau or the Franklin Theatre at the Institute. Signs will be posted in the lobby and via Facebook and Twitter @PhilaIndie. |||||||

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Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 4 – June 22 – 26, 2011

10 Tuesday May 2011

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We want to thank Adobe, Franklin Institute, UArts, AudreyHepburn.com, and the City of Philadelphia for their inspiration and help in putting together this year’s festival. Please support them.

Head over to the Festival website for more information. Tell us what’s on your mind.

Thank you.

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 4
June 22 – 26, 2011

Empowerment Group / Media Bureau – Social Media Strategy, Enabling the Ecosystem (E-Week 2011 Event Schedule)

28 Monday Mar 2011

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Media Bureau is a proud sponsor of the 2011 Philadelphia Entrepreneurship Week! April 18 – 21st.

This workshop will present strategies and tactics for entrepreneurs who wish to take advantage of social media as a marketing tool. It will consider the role of marketing in a digital networked world, support new approaches to marketing, and present practical tips for shaping online campaigns. This session will be led by Angel Rodriguez (Empowerment Group) and Benjamin Barnett (Media Bureau). Laptops will be supplied, but those with laptops are encouraged to bring their own. Participants will receive hand-outs.

Details:
Start Date/Time: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 6:00 PM
End Date/Time: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:00 PM
Category: Entrepreneurship Week
Location: UArts, 211 S. Broad St, 8th floor

211 S. Broad Street
University of the Arts, Terra Building

Visit Empowerment Group Website for more information

:::Immediate Alert::: buyboards.com enters the Media Bureau Eco-System!

27 Sunday Mar 2011

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Well, actually it’s not so immediate! We have been working with the team at buyboards.com for more than 2 years now. Since then we have been consulting on DMS and back-end operations, hosting and posting events, and overall providing process to a complex, real time, digital media world. It’s been great speaking to enthusiasts frorm around the world!

We look forward to bringing the 40,000 + items from skateboards, snowboards, and all of the accessories that surround these sports to your fingertips. We have great ideas.

In the coming months you will see more than these specific items we have to admit because we have so much more we are about to get online! There’s camping, clothing, outdoor gear, and much more.

Stop by the site and get going! ::: buyboards.com ::::

pa2012.com spurs debate on LinkedIn enabling the Eco-system

27 Sunday Mar 2011

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Taking the discussion across the Eco-System:

Visit pa2012.com on Linkedin:
Join the discussion

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