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Submissions rolling in for festival #10 – April 26-30, 2017!

06 Tuesday Sep 2016

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Get your gear.

Welcome to the show! Festival #10 is seeing the biggest surge in submissions – ever. We are proud to see this happen and can not wait to share our views on the submissions as the year rolls on. You can submit here: Submit to festival #10 for the Early deadline.

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We are planning a lot this year and are looking forward to updating the website (long overdue, we know), officially launch the piffFilms ROKU channel, integrate with #PhillyTechWeek even more, as well as announce partners and other ideas.

Last year’s festival was a huge success for us and we are tracking the success of the films. Check out our Facebook account and our Twitter account for regular updates.

Don’t forget – support ALL film festivals and local screenings! The city is thriving with great options and other interesting things concerning film and it’s related fields including technology. Visit a small studio, show up to a networking event, shout it out via #PHLfilm on Twitter. Get involved. photo

We’ll see you soon! Contact us online by posting a question or a comment. You can stop by the Box Office at 2401 Walnut Street in Philadelphia, PA.

See you out there ~
The team at #piffFilms

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.

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival #6 in full swing

12 Tuesday Mar 2013

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The festival has been receiving at least 3/4 films – per day. We are looking good here and have even received a documentary film from North Korea. Interesting. Thank you for all the feedback to date. As we type, we are working with the team over at The Lunch Room for a full scale website update. If you have been following the blog, you will know the day to day. The website will include features such as PIFF on demand, Trailers, Music Video’s and other media from past and present festival’s. Stick with us as we are looking to bring the Independent filmmaker to the next level.

~ ed

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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.

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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

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:::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 ::::

Submit to the 4th Philadelphia Independent Film Festival June 22-26, 2011

27 Sunday Mar 2011

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The 4th Philadelphia Independent Film Festival is being held June 22-26, 2011.

Here’s the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival WAB link for submissions: Submit to the Festival

Please contact us with any questions 24/7

See you at the Festival!

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Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and Media Bureau sponsors – Before the Bridge Music Festival.

23 Thursday Sep 2010

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Great festival.
Thank you to the musicians; Kimberly Townsend, MONKO, Red Orange Morning, If’n, Sounds from Atlantis, McRad, Pink Skull, Lowry, Gand, and Rolex. Go here: http://www.beforethebridge.com/artists.html for more information.

Also, thanks to Nick Caine and crew for making a very slick event go down. Collingswood is a great spot for this and we were proud to take part.

The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and Media Bureau were proud to help sponsor!
http://www.beforethebridge.com/

See you next year and see you in the studios.

Media Bureau

Festival Submissions have ended …

23 Friday Apr 2010

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Thank you!

It looks like our outreach has touched a nerve. We are thankful and grateful for the chance to review your submissions. As you know, we are looking for new movies and considering the tally of over 400 to review, we are going to dig some up. Here is the Withoutabox listing again … http://www.withoutabox.com/login/6382. Log in for fest info. and other tidbits. Our festival site will be up shortly!

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Benjamin Barnett
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